murmurEchizen Crab Festival
Echizen Town · Michi-no-Eki Echizen roadside station
Dates and details can change. Always check the official website before you go.
Fuku-e.com (Fukui Prefectural Tourism Federation) · Last checked: Oct 11, 2026
Dates
Dates confirmed with official sources
- 2026
- Sat, Nov 14, 2026 / Sun, Nov 15, 2026 / Sat, Nov 21, 2026 / Sun, Nov 22, 2026 9:00–15:00 each day
- 2027
- Dates have not been announced yet. Please check the official website.
- Usual timing
- Usually mid November
- How the date is set
- Changes from year to year Held on weekends in November
- Venue
- Michi-no-Eki Echizen roadside station
- City
- Echizen Town, Fukui
About
Echizen Town, which brings in roughly seventy percent of all Echizen crab landed and calls itself the crab's sacred ground, hosts Fukui Prefecture's biggest crab festival on weekends in November. At the Michi-no-Eki Echizen roadside station, local fishmongers who handle these crabs every day fill their counters with Echizen snow crab and seiko crab. Ready-to-eat dishes include seiko crab soup, grilled seafood and seiko crab steamed in the shell, all from the new season. A committee of the town, the fishing cooperative, the chamber of commerce, the fish brokers and the tourism federation runs the event. It spans two back-to-back weekends, four days in total, with free entry. Parking is beside the venue, a shuttle runs from overflow parking at Kuriya fishing port, and a local bus serves it from Takefu Station.
Sources
- OfficialFuku-e.com (Fukui Prefectural Tourism Federation) www.fuku-e.com
Last checked: Oct 11, 2026. Event information is based on official announcements, but changes may not always be reflected here. Please check each official website for accurate details.
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