murmurHitsuishi Momote Festival
Sakaide City · Oji Shrine, Hitsuishijima Island
Dates and details can change. Always check the official website before you go.
Kagawa Prefecture Tourism Association (Udon-ken Tabi-net) · Last checked: Oct 11, 2026
Dates
Dates not confirmed
- 2026
- Dates have not been announced yet. Please check the official website.
- 2027
- Dates have not been announced yet. Please check the official website.
- Usual timing
- Usually mid January
- How the date is set
- Changes from year to year A Sunday in mid- to late January
- Venue
- Oji Shrine, Hitsuishijima Island
- City
- Sakaide City, Kagawa
About
On a winter Sunday, Oji Shrine on Hitsuishijima, an island at the northern edge of Sakaide's waters right beneath the Seto Ohashi Bridge, holds this archery festival, an Intangible Folk Cultural Property of Kagawa Prefecture. Look closely at the target: a square drawn on plain white paper, a design rarely seen elsewhere. When the shooting is over, the archers walk through the village chanting Buddhist mantras, a circuit believed to chase misfortune out of the community. It usually falls on a Sunday between mid- and late January; enquiries go to the Cultural Promotion Division of the Sakaide City Board of Education.
Sources
- OfficialKagawa Prefecture Tourism Association (Udon-ken Tabi-net) www.my-kagawa.jp
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.
Other events this month
On the day, see what locals are murmuring on the murmur map
murmur is an app that shows short, anonymous posts on a map, right where they were written. On festival day, open the map around the venue and see what people nearby are saying.