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Festival · Toyama · Chubu

All Japan Chindon Contest

Japan's only national competition for chindon, a street performance art from the 19th century that promoted shop openings with music and costumes.

Toyama · 3–5 Apr 2027

Shrine · Toyama · Chubu

Hie Shrine

Shinto shrine in central Toyama known as Sanno-san, given its present grounds by Maeda Toshinaga and home of the Sanno Matsuri spring festival.

Toyama

Festival · Toyama · Chubu

Yatsuo Hikiyama Festival

A traditional spring festival features six ornately decorated floats assembled without nails, pulled through streets with classical hikiyama music.

Toyama · 3 May 2027

Castle · Toyama · Chubu

Toyama Castle

Castle site in central Toyama, founded in 1543, where a 1954 keep holds the city museum of the castle's history and the 1849 Chitose Gate stands.

Toyama

Festival

All Japan Chindon Contest

Japan's only national competition for chindon, a street performance art from the 19th century that promoted shop openings with music and costumes.

3–5 Apr 2027Exact date not confirmed yetToyama

Festival

Yatsuo Hikiyama Festival

A traditional spring festival features six ornately decorated floats assembled without nails, pulled through streets with classical hikiyama music.

3 May 2027Toyama

Festival

Iwase Hikiyama Festival (The Fighting Floats Festival)

Spring festival of Iwase Suwa Shrine where 13 heavy floats topped with painted tatemon are pulled through the old port town and clash at night.

17–18 May 2027Toyama

Festival

Sanno Festival

Centered at Hie Shrine, this major Toyama festival originated in the Edo period and features a two-day mikoshi procession through the city's parishes.

31 May – 2 Jun 2027Toyama

Festival

Owara Kaze no Bon (Harvest Wind Festival)

A harvest festival in Yatsuo: lantern-lit dancers in matching happi coats move through the streets to shamisen and kokyu music over three September days.

1–3 Sep 2027Toyama

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Area & Points of Interest

Yatsuo-machi

Former town, part of Toyama City since 2005, known for hillside streets of old houses, the Owara Kaze no Bon and the Minori rice terraces.

Toyama

Temple

Monmyo-ji Temple

Jodo Shinshu temple in Yatsuo, Toyama, dating its founding to 1290 and on Yatsuo Maeyama since 1551, with the town of Yatsuo laid out around it in 1636.

Toyama

Event Venue

Toyama Grand Plaza

An all-weather open-air atrium in central Toyama that hosts events and can be rented as event space.

Toyama

Shrine

Hie Shrine

Shinto shrine in central Toyama known as Sanno-san, given its present grounds by Maeda Toshinaga and home of the Sanno Matsuri spring festival.

Toyama

Event Venue

Toyama Prefectural Hall

A prefectural cultural venue in central Toyama, opened in 1964, with a hall for stage shows, an art museum, galleries, meeting rooms and a tea room.

Toyama

Shrine

Iwasesuwa Shrine

A Shinto shrine in Iwase, the port district of Toyama, that holds the Iwase Hikiyama Festival with its clashing floats each spring.

Toyama

Castle

Toyama Castle

Castle site in central Toyama, founded in 1543, where a 1954 keep holds the city museum of the castle's history and the 1849 Chitose Gate stands.

Toyama

Illumination

Ainokura Gassho-style Village Light-up

Light-ups of the World Heritage gassho-zukuri village of Ainokura in Gokayama, held on a weekend in May, September and February, each with a seasonal theme.

20–21 Feb 2027Nanto · Toyama

Festival

All Japan Chindon Contest

Japan's only national competition for chindon, a street performance art from the 19th century that promoted shop openings with music and costumes.

3–5 Apr 2027Exact date not confirmed yetToyama

Festival

Marumage Festival

A spring procession in Himi in which unmarried women in kimono and the marumage hairstyle of married women walk to Senju-ji to pray for a happy marriage.

17 Apr 2027Himi · Toyama

Illumination

Zuiryuji Temple Spring Light-up

Spring evenings at Zuiryuji, where colored lights and music play over the National Treasure halls of the Maeda family temple.

22 Apr – 5 May 2027Exact date not confirmed yetTakaoka · Toyama

Festival

Takaoka Mikuruma-yama Festival

A traditional spring festival in Takaoka features ornate wheeled floats originating from a 16th-century court carriage.

1 May 2027Takaoka · Toyama

Festival

Yatsuo Hikiyama Festival

A traditional spring festival features six ornately decorated floats assembled without nails, pulled through streets with classical hikiyama music.

3 May 2027Toyama

Festival

Iwase Hikiyama Festival (The Fighting Floats Festival)

Spring festival of Iwase Suwa Shrine where 13 heavy floats topped with painted tatemon are pulled through the old port town and clash at night.

17–18 May 2027Toyama

Festival

Sanno Festival

Centered at Hie Shrine, this major Toyama festival originated in the Edo period and features a two-day mikoshi procession through the city's parishes.

31 May – 2 Jun 2027Toyama

Festival

Tsuzawa Yotaka Andon Festival

A lantern festival in Toyama Prefecture where 7-meter-high floats decorated with warrior illustrations collide in ritualized clashes to taiko drumming.

4–5 Jun 2027Exact date not confirmed yetOyabe · Toyama

Festival

Tonami Yotaka Festival

A harvest festival in which red lanterns over 6 metres tall collide in a ritual called tsukiawase, accompanied by taiko drums.

11–12 Jun 2027Exact date not confirmed yetTonami · Toyama

Festival

Takaoka Tanabata Festival

About 100 decorated bamboo displays fill the streets from Takaoka Station to Suehiro-dori, lit at night, with wish strips and lanterns made by local residents.

1–8 Aug 2027Exact date not confirmed yetTakaoka · Toyama

Festival

Jantokoi Uozu Festival

Uozu's biggest summer event, the Jantokoi Uozu Festival brings UNESCO-listed Tatemon floats, folk dance, seaside fireworks, and jazz.

6–8 Aug 2027Exact date not confirmed yetUozu · Toyama

Area & Points of Interest

Yatsuo-machi

Former town, part of Toyama City since 2005, known for hillside streets of old houses, the Owara Kaze no Bon and the Minori rice terraces.

Toyama

Museum

Tsuzawa Andon Museum

City museum in Oyabe on the Tsuzawa Yotaka Andon Festival, with a full-size lantern float on permanent display and small lantern painting sessions.

Oyabe · Toyama

Shrine

Hakusan Shrine Sayado

Hall built in 1760 in Gokayama, Toyama, to shelter a shrine from 1502, the oldest surviving wooden building in Toyama and an Important Cultural Property.

Nanto · Toyama

Temple

Monmyo-ji Temple

Jodo Shinshu temple in Yatsuo, Toyama, dating its founding to 1290 and on Yatsuo Maeyama since 1551, with the town of Yatsuo laid out around it in 1636.

Toyama

Event Venue

Johana Traditional Performing Arts Hall Johanaza

A Nanto City hall for Johana's traditional performing arts and new work, with a 400-seat stage and a large screen for films.

Nanto · Toyama

Shrine

Suwa Shrine

Suwa Shrine sits on a hillside overlooking Toyama Bay, enshrining three deities revered by maritime workers for protection and prosperity in fishing.

Uozu · Toyama

Area & Points of Interest

Yamamachi

A merchant street of fireproof dozo-zukuri shophouses rebuilt after the fire of 1900, selected as an Important Preservation District in 2000.

Takaoka · Toyama

Event Venue

Toyama Grand Plaza

An all-weather open-air atrium in central Toyama that hosts events and can be rented as event space.

Toyama

Historic Site

Ainokura Gassho-style Village

A village in the UNESCO-listed Gokayama area with 20 gassho-style houses, most from the late Edo to Meiji periods, under thatched roofs pitched near 60 degrees.

Nanto · Toyama

Shrine