murmurObama Food Festival
Obama City · Kawasaki special venue (Miketsukuni Wakasa Obama Food Culture Museum), Obama
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
- Oct 24–25, 2026 10:00–15:00
- 2027
- Dates have not been announced yet. Please check the official website.
- Usual timing
- Usually late October
- How the date is set
- Changes from year to year Held each October
- Venue
- Kawasaki special venue (Miketsukuni Wakasa Obama Food Culture Museum), Obama
- City
- Obama City, Fukui
About
Each October, Wakasa Obama hosts a food festival that gathers local flavors and regional favorites from across Japan in one spot. A fixture for about two decades, it is held on a special site in the Kawasaki waterfront district beside the Miketsukuni Wakasa Obama Food Culture Museum. The local dish to try first is Obama ramen, available only here, in a mackerel-based broth that is clean-tasting yet full of flavor. You can grill fresh seafood and overnight-dried fish on charcoal braziers, compare mackerel sushi from Obama, where the old Mackerel Road (Saba Kaido) began, and pick up canned mackerel and Fukui sake. Visiting stalls include Marugame bone-in chicken from Kagawa, which always draws a queue, Fujinomiya yakisoba from Shizuoka, Nakatsu fried chicken from Oita and Tsuyama offal udon from Okayama, plus products from sister city Nara.
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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