murmurMikawa Okaeri Festival
Hakusan City · Mikawa, Hakusan (Fujitsuka Shrine and town streets)
Dates and details can change. Always check the official website before you go.
Urara Hakusanbito (Hakusan City Tourism Federation) · Last checked: Oct 11, 2026
Dates
Dates confirmed with official sources
- 2026
- May 16–17, 2026 （Ended）
- 2027
- Dates have not been announced yet. Please check the official website.
- Usual timing
- Usually mid May
- How the date is set
- The 3rd Saturday of May Third Saturday of May and the following Sunday
- Venue
- Mikawa, Hakusan (Fujitsuka Shrine and town streets)
- City
- Hakusan City, Ishikawa
About
The spring festival of Fujitsuka Shrine in Mikawa, Hakusan, is said to have continued since the mid-Edo period, when the town grew rich on the Kitamaebune coastal trade. At the head of the procession walk buglers in formal crested kimono and hakama and a lion that drives away evil, followed by a mikoshi carried by young men and 13 floats called daiguruma. These three-wheeled floats bring together the skills of Mikawa's Buddhist-altar craftsmen and are finished in lacquer and maki-e. On the first day a bugle call summons everyone early in the morning, and the procession leaves the shrine for the otabisho resting place in Takahama, where it stays overnight. The next evening it sets out again along the okaeri-suji, a route whose turn comes round to each area once every 10 years, and returns to the shrine before dawn the following morning.
Sources
- OfficialUrara Hakusanbito (Hakusan City Tourism Federation) www.urara-hakusanbito.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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On the day, see what locals are murmuring on the murmur map
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