Shinkawa Market Festival

Name: Shinkawa Market Festival
Start: 2022-05-03T00:01Z+09:00
End: 2022-05-05T23:59Z+09:00

Free

Yamaguchi

Coinciding with the annual Golden Week holidays, the Shinkawa Market Festival in the city of Ube, is a celebration of the traditions of the area.

The highlight of the festival is the fox’s wedding parade in which a traditionally dressed “bride and groom” with their faces painted as foxes, are wheeled on a rickshaw through the streets. This happens on the final day – May 5th.

(Greg Lane)

Dates

3rd May–5th May, 2022

Name in Japanese 新川市まつり

Entry Free

Area

Yamaguchi

Closest station(s)

Ubeshinkawa Station
Use the Japan Rail Pass to get here.

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