murmurMoka Summer Festival (Kojin Festival)
Moka City · Osaki Shrine, around Moka City Hall and central Moka
Dates and details can change. Always check the official website before you go.
Tochigi Prefectural Tourism and Local Products Association (Tochigi Tabi Net) · Last checked: Oct 10, 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 late July
- How the date is set
- Changes from year to year Three days in late July
- Venue
- Osaki Shrine, around Moka City Hall and central Moka
- City
- Moka City, Tochigi
About
Moka's largest event spans 3 days in summer. It opens at Osaki Shrine with a send-off ceremony praying for safe processions, good harvests and freedom from disease, after which the portable shrines and floats head out into town. On the middle day the city center turns into a car-free festival plaza where more than twenty mikoshi, including the shrine's main and Aramiya shrines, children's mikoshi and ones handmade by junior high school students, mingle with 8 floats and festival musicians. That night the mikoshi are carried into the river, and about 15,000 fireworks go up beside the Gogyo River east of City Hall, launched close enough to feel the impact. The final day ends with the procession that returns the mikoshi to the shrine.
Sources
- OfficialTochigi Prefectural Tourism and Local Products Association (Tochigi Tabi Net) www.tochigiji.or.jp
- OfficialMoka City (press release on PR TIMES issued by Moka City) prtimes.jp
Last checked: Oct 10, 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
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.