Ogawa Wakamiya Shrine Festival

Ogawa Wakamiya Shrine Festival

Event Overview

An annual festival that is transmitted to the island district. The distinctive lion kyogen "kuzunoba no mai" depicts the farewell between mother and child, and is very rare even in the prefecture, where a female figure wearing a lion's head is holding a brush and writing a grudge poem on a doorboard (planned). Image courtesy: Agematsu Town Tourism Association

Info

JR Agematsu Station → 3 minutes by car. or 30 minutes on foot
From Chuo Expressway Ina IC, 37km50 minutes via National Route 361/19

Event Period

Price

Free

Event Category

Traditional performing arts and dances


Dance of the kuzha
Agematsu Town Tourism Association

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