🏮 Senda Matsuri

千田まつり

Arida, Wakayama (Susa Shrine) · Every year on 14 October

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Rooms around Arida, Wakayama fill up while the festival is on.

The Chida Festival is held every year on October 14 at Susa Shrine in Arida, Wakayama Prefecture, and is known as a rough festival in which participants scramble for sea bream offered before the deity. The venue, Susa Shrine, is located in Chida, Arida, and the festival held here is a local traditional event. At the center of the festival, participants compete to grab six sea bream, and it is said that whoever takes a sea bream will enjoy a bountiful catch for a year. This fierce contest, embodying the prayers of people involved in fishing for a good catch, is the main highlight of the Chida Festival.

Getting there

Public transport: about 15 minutes by taxi from Minoshima Station on the JR Kisei Main Line. Or about 20 minutes on foot from Aridagawa Station on the Arida Railway. By car: about 10 minutes from Arida IC on the Hanwa Expressway. Temporary parking is available nearby.