murmurNagano Gion Festival Float Procession
Nagano City · Zenkoji temple town (around Yasaka Shrine and Central Square)
Dates and details can change. Always check the official website before you go.
Nagano Gion Festival Float Committee · Last checked: Oct 11, 2026
Dates
Dates confirmed with official sources
- 2026
- Sun, Jun 7, 2026 （Ended） Rope-cutting in front of Central Square from 9:00 on June 7, then the procession sets off (eve festival on June 6)
- 2027
- Dates have not been announced yet. Please check the official website.
- Usual timing
- Usually early June
- How the date is set
- Changes from year to year
- Venue
- Zenkoji temple town (around Yasaka Shrine and Central Square)
- City
- Nagano City, Nagano
About
This is the festival of Yasaka Shrine, which sits among the temple lodgings on Kami-Nishinomon-dori at the gates of Zenkoji, and locals have long called it Zenkoji's Gion Festival. The shrine's head shrine is Yasaka Shrine in Kyoto, and the festival was once ranked with the festivals of Kyoto's Yasaka Shrine and Hiroshima's Itsukushima Shrine as one of Japan's three great Gion festivals. A picture scroll from the Bunsei era of the Edo period already shows townspeople pulling the floats. On the main day, a child chosen to act for the deity, the Osakinori, leads the floats of each neighborhood toward Zenkoji, and they stop along the way to offer dances. On the eve, festival music and Japanese dance bring the temple town to life on an early summer evening.
Sources
- OfficialNagano Gion Festival Float Committee gosairei.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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