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Festivals in Japan in June

Dates are computed from each festival’s rule, so future years work too

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• 4–6 June 2027Ishikawa

  Kanazawa Hyakumangoku Festival

  金沢百万石まつり

  Three days in early June when Kanazawa re-enacts the day in 1583 that Maeda Toshiie, founder of the Kaga domain, entered its castle: a costumed procession of warriors, lion dancers and firemen winds from the station to Kanazawa Castle.

• 6 June 2027Hiroshima

  Mibu no Hanataue

  壬生の花田植

  Decorated oxen work the mud, and to the beat of drums a field is actually planted.

• 9–13 June 2027Hokkaido

  Yosakoi Soran Festival

  YOSAKOIソーラン祭り

  Kōchi’s dance grafted onto a Hokkaidō fishing song in 1992 — young, as Japanese festivals go.

• 12 June 2027Iwate

  Chagu Chagu Umakko

  チャグチャグ馬コ

  Workhorses decked out in brightly coloured harness hung with some 700 bells walk about 14 kilometres, bells jingling, from Onikoshi Sōzen Shrine in Takizawa to Morioka Hachimangū Shrine in Morioka, Iwate. It is a festival of a region that has long lived side by side with its horses, held to rest them after the hard work of the fields and pray for their health. Held every year on the second Saturday of June.

• 9 June 2028Tokyo

  Sannō Matsuri

  山王祭

  Hie Shrine's rite in Akasaka — the other tenka matsuri, alternating years with Kanda.