🏮 Yamada no Haru Matsuri

山田の春祭り

Chichibu, Saitama (Tsunemochi Shrine) · Every year on 27 March

Floats

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Rooms around Chichibu, Saitama fill up while the festival is on.

Yamada no Haru Matsuri is the annual festival of Kojō Shrine in Yamada, Chichibu City, Saitama Prefecture. It is known as the spring festival where yamaboko (festival floats) appear earliest in the Chichibu region, and is also described as the festival that announces the arrival of spring along the Chichibu road. On the day, before 11:00 a.m., three floats — one kasaboko and two yatai — gather in the grounds of Kojō Shrine, and a ceremony is held at Kojō Shrine. In the afternoon, each float heads to Yasaka Shrine, which serves as the otabisho (resting place for the deity), and a ceremony is held there around 3:00 p.m. After that, the floats continue to be pulled, and evening towing is also scheduled.

Getting there

About 20 minutes on foot from Kagemori Station on the Chichibu Railway, or from Chichibu Station on the Chichibu Railway take the Seibu Kanko Bus bound for Yamada for about 15 minutes, get off at Yamada, and walk immediately.