Festival · Yamaguchi · ChugokuSuhoteisai Festival
Shimonoseki · 7–13 Aug 2026
Chugoku right now
2026/08/04Festival · Yamaguchi · Chugoku
Explore
Festival · Yamaguchi · ChugokuShimonoseki · 7–13 Aug 2026
05:2619:14Yamaguchi
Reference rates · 2026/08/03
A rare Yamaguchi ritual festival said to date back over 1,800 years, with seven nights of dances around the Oni-ishi stone, towering banners, and lantern-topped poles.
7–13 Aug 2026Shimonoseki · YamaguchiA summer festival where 4,000 decorated goldfish lanterns cast a spellbinding glow over the town, alongside a spirited Goldfish Nebuta procession.
13 Aug 2026Yanai · YamaguchiA major August fireworks festival over the Kanmon Straits, jointly staged by Kitakyushu and Shimonoseki, with over 15,000 fireworks visible from both shores.
13 Aug 2026Shimonoseki · YamaguchiA traditional Bon dance performed on Shiraishi Island honors historical battle casualties through a unique ensemble format where multiple dances synchronize to a lead.
13–16 Aug 2026Kasaoka · OkayamaAn Okayama City summer festival inspired by the Momotaro folk tale, featuring demon-costumed Uraja dancing, parades, and fireworks across the city in August.
22–23 Aug 2026OkayamaAn October festival features a grand procession with a portable shrine led by samurai-clad participants, with local residents bowing in reverence along the streets.
15 Oct 2026Niimi · OkayamaThis pottery festival in Japan's Heritage-certified Bizen production area offers visitors the chance to buy ware and try their hand at the potter's wheel.
18–19 Oct 2026Bizen · OkayamaAn annual festival celebrating Ube City with parades featuring the Nanban Ondo dance, a contemporary adaptation of traditional mining work songs.
2 Nov 2026Ube · YamaguchiThe Fox's Wedding features a grand procession with white fox bride and groom, rooted in a legend of benevolent spirits said to bring marriage blessings.
3 Nov 2026Kudamatsu · YamaguchiA castle festival features an armored warrior procession, parades, and traditional performances including taiko drumming and Shinto kagura dance.
16 Nov 2026Iwakuni · YamaguchiOnce a year the gods of Japan are said to abandon their shrines for Izumo, where a season of quiet rites welcomes, hosts, and finally sends them home again.
18–25 Nov 2026Izumo · ShimaneThis festival honors Tenjin, a tenth-century poet and administrator deified for his integrity, through a ritual dating back over a thousand years.
28 Nov 2026Hofu · YamaguchiKumano Taisha, Izumo's "birthplace of fire", holds sacred hikiriusu and hikirigine fire-drills, a startling rice-cake ritual, and Susanoo's comb festival for Princess Inada.
Matsue · ShimaneThe floating shrine of Miyajima, built out over a tidal cove, with its great vermilion torii standing in the sea off the sacred island.
Hatsukaichi · HiroshimaA clifftop shrine on the Nagato coast where 123 red torii run down to the Sea of Japan, with an offering box perched high on the entrance gate.
Nagato · YamaguchiThe park honors victims of the 1945 atomic bombing and preserves the Atomic Bomb Dome, the sole standing building near ground zero, alongside monuments and a museum.
HiroshimaMuseum honoring the poet Nakahara Chūya with permanent and rotating exhibitions exploring different aspects of his literary legacy.
YamaguchiA 16th-century castle destroyed in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, reconstructed in 1958 and now serving as a museum documenting the city's history.
HiroshimaOne of Japan's three most beautiful gardens, featuring a central pond with islands and bridges, tea house, and abundant cherry blossoms in spring.
OkayamaMountain castle built in 1240 and rebuilt in 1331 on its current location, retaining its tenshu, Nijū yagura, and section of defensive walls.
Takahashi · OkayamaOriginal wooden fortress built 1607-1611, one of Japan's few surviving castles and one of the Three Great Lake Castles in its architectural category.
Matsue · ShimaneShinto shrine honoring Antoku, an emperor who died during the Battle of Dan-no-ura in 1185, with a gate designed after the legendary underwater palace of the Dragon God.
Shimonoseki · YamaguchiSaijo Inari is a 1,200-year-old Buddhist temple and one of Japan's three great Inari sites, preserving a rare form of Shinto-Buddhist syncretic worship.
OkayamaBitchukoku Soja Shrine consolidated deities of 324 provincial shrines into a single site dedicated to the deity of nation-building and good fortune.
Soja · Okayama
