murmurUbe Matsuri
Ube City · Tokiwa-dori avenue, the Ube City Hall surface car park and other sites
Dates and details can change. Always check the official website before you go.
Ube Matsuri Executive Committee · Last checked: Oct 11, 2026
Dates
Dates confirmed with official sources
- 2026
- Sun, Nov 1, 2026 10:30–16:00
- 2027
- Dates have not been announced yet. Please check the official website.
- Usual timing
- Usually early November
- How the date is set
- Changes from year to year
- Venue
- Tokiwa-dori avenue, the Ube City Hall surface car park and other sites
- City
- Ube City, Yamaguchi
About
Ube Matsuri is the largest festival in Ube, a city built on coal. It began in 1934 as the Tanto-sai, or Coal City Festival, to celebrate the city's founding. Its emblem is the Nanban Ondo parade, where teams dance through the streets to an old coal miners' work song that carries the city's pride. Tokiwa-dori avenue also sees citizens' parades, hikiyama floats and yosakoi dancers, and "coal mochi" rice cakes are handed out. The main stage, set up in the open-air car park at City Hall, features the Nanban Ondo preservation society, Ube taiko, yosakoi and local groups, and around the streets you'll find a festival square of stalls, the Ube Marche for food and shopping, and street performances of music and busking acts. The 2026 festival, the seventy-fifth, marks 105 years since Ube became a city.
Sources
- OfficialUbe Matsuri Executive Committee ube-matsuri.com
- OfficialYamaguchi Prefecture Tourism Federation (Oidemase Yamaguchi) yamaguchi-tourism.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.
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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.