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Tagata Shrine Honen Festival  (田縣神社豊年祭(ほうねんまつり))

2025.03.15

The Honen Festival is the Tagata Shrine's largest annual festival, held on March 15 to pray for a good harvest, the nurturing of all things, and the prosperity of descendants. Men in their unlucky years carry a mikoshi portable shrine with a phallus made of hinoki cypress, 60 centimeters in diameter and 2 meters long, and march in procession from otabisho, a resting point designated alternately each year, to Tagata Shrine to offer the phallus. On the day of the festival, the grounds of the shrine are filled with worshippers from all over the world. There are poems related to the festival that read: "People, and even the fields and mountains, can't help but smile at the Honen Festival" and "People are full of smiles as they compare plum blossoms and cherry blossoms." As these poems indicate, this festival makes everyone smile across borders, making it truly a rare festival in the world. The mikoshi procession of the Honen Festival has been designated an intangible folk cultural property of Komaki City by the Komaki City Board of Education.
Volunteers who regularly guide foreigners in English around Komaki's famous sites and historic places, such as Mt. Komaki, will offer an English guide service at the long-established Honen Festival.

 

[Date and time]

10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Saturday, March 15, 2025

(The mikoshi procession will depart Kumano Shrine, this year's otabisho, at 2:00 p.m. The mikoshi procession will arrive at Tagata Shrine at 3:30 p.m.)

[Location]

Tagata Shrine (152 Tagatacho, Komaki City, Aichi)

[Participants]

Open to everyone

[Admission]

Free If you need an English guide, please book in advance or on the day at the desk.

[How to book an English guide]

Apply by March 14 by phone or via email.

[Contact for an English guide]

Komaki Interpreter Volunteer Guide Group

(Tel: 090-8072-2817)

(Email:  noopy2476@yahoo.co.jp)

[Same-day booking location]

At the desk in front of the main shrine of Tagata Shrine, which is 5 minutes' walk from Meitetsu Tagatajinja-mae Station

[Same-day booking hours]

Booking starts at 10:00 a.m., Saturday, March 15.

[Access]

By Nagoya Municipal Subway: Take the subway to Heian-dori Station and transfer to the Kamiiida Line and Meitetsu Komaki Line. Get off at Tagatajinja-mae Station. It's a 5-minute walk 500 meters to the south from there to Tagata Shrine.

By Meitetsu train: At Nagoya Station, take the Meitetsu Inuyama Line to Inuyama Station  and transfer to the Komaki Line. Get off at Tagatajinja-mae Station.

[Website]

http://www.tagatajinja.com/pg28.html

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