murmurIizaka Hachiman Shrine Grand Festival (Iizaka Kenka Matsuri)
Fukushima City · Hachiman Shrine, Iizaka, Fukushima City
Dates and details can change. Always check the official website before you go.
Fukushima Prefectural Tourism & Local Products Association (Fukushima Travel) · Last checked: Oct 11, 2026
Dates
Dates confirmed with official sources
- 2026
- Oct 2–4, 2026 （Ended）
- 2027
- Dates have not been announced yet. Please check the official website.
- Usual timing
- Usually early October
- How the date is set
- Announced each year Usually a Friday-to-Sunday in early October; dates are announced each year
- Venue
- Hachiman Shrine, Iizaka, Fukushima City
- City
- Fukushima City, Fukushima
About
Iizaka Onsen in Fukushima City hosts the autumn grand festival of Hachiman Shrine, the hot-spring town's guardian shrine, and it is reckoned one of Japan's three great fighting festivals. The main event is a clash of six drum floats strung with lanterns: fired-up young men carry them into the shrine grounds and ram them together, as if to bar the way of the portable shrine. Night-time shouts and the thud of colliding floats echo through the spa town. In 2026 it ran October 2 to 4. The shrine is in Iizaka-machi, about 15 minutes on foot from Iizaka-Onsen Station on the Fukushima Kotsu Iizaka Line. There is no parking at the shrine, so take the train. Inquiries go to the shrine office.
Sources
- OfficialFukushima Prefectural Tourism & Local Products Association (Fukushima Travel) www.tif.ne.jp
- OfficialIizaka Hachiman Shrine hachimanjinja.info
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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