Festivals in Japan in September
Dates are computed from each festival’s rule, so future years work too
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- 1–3 September 2027Toyama
Owara Kaze no Bon
おわら風の盆
Three nights in which a hillside town fills with wordless dance, to kokyū and shamisen.
- 7–9 September 2027Akita
Kakunodate Festival
角館のお祭り
When the talks over who yields break down, the floats settle it by force.
- 14–16 September 2027Kanagawa
Annual Grand Festival at Tsurugaoka Hachimangū
鶴岡八幡宮例大祭
The most important festival of the year at Tsurugaoka Hachimangū in Kamakura. On the 15th three portable shrines are carried down Wakamiya-ōji avenue, and on the last day, the 16th, archers in hunting dress shoot at targets from galloping horses. Held every year from 14 to 16 September.
- 18–19 September 2027Osaka
Kishiwada Danjiri Matsuri
岸和田だんじり祭
Heavy wooden floats run at full speed and turned on a right angle — the yarimawashi.
- 18–20 September 2027Ibaraki
Ishioka Festival (Hitachinokuni Sōsha Shrine Grand Festival)
石岡のおまつり(常陸國總社宮例大祭)
The grand festival of Hitachinokuni Sōsha Shrine in Ishioka, Ibaraki, counted among the three great festivals of the Kantō region. Some thirty horojishi, lion heads drawing covered wagons, twelve floats crowned with towering figures, and the shrine’s great portable shrine parade through the town. Held every year over the three days, Saturday to Monday, that end on Respect for the Aged Day in September, after the shrine’s own rite on 15 September.