murmurOji Fox Parade (Kitsune no Gyoretsu)
Kita City · From Shozoku Inari Shrine to Oji Inari Shrine
Dates and details can change. Always check the official website before you go.
Oji Fox Parade Executive Committee · Last checked: Oct 10, 2026
Dates
Dates confirmed with official sources
- 2026
- Dec 31, 2026 – Jan 1, 2027
- 2027
- Dates have not been announced yet. Please check the official website.
- Usual timing
- Usually late December
- How the date is set
- Every year, December 31 – January 1 Overnight from New Year's Eve into New Year's Day
- Venue
- From Shozoku Inari Shrine to Oji Inari Shrine
- City
- Kita City, Tokyo
About
On New Year's Eve night, people wearing fox masks or fox makeup walk from Shozoku Inari to Oji Inari Shrine. The parade is rooted in a local legend: on the last night of the year, foxes from all around gathered under a great tree in Oji to dress up before paying their respects at Oji Inari Shrine. Utagawa Hiroshige depicted the scene in his print Fox Fires on New Year's Eve at the Changing Tree, Oji, and Shozoku Inari is the shrine beside that tree. The parade started on New Year's Eve in 1993, when local residents went together to Oji Inari Shrine for their first prayers of the year, following the print. Continued as a way of using old culture to build a new kind of town, it won a national award for community development groups in 1999.
Sources
- OfficialOji Fox Parade Executive Committee kitsune.tokyo-oji.jp
- OfficialGO TOKYO (Tokyo Convention & Visitors Bureau) www.gotokyo.org
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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