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Traditional Festivals / Amusing Events Hakone Saijiki
Traditional Festivals / Amusing Events Hakone Saijiki


Festivals In Hakone; Event Calendar
* As for the thing without specification of the date, a schedule is changed every year.
* Moreover, keep in mind that a schedule may be that there is nothing changed in a preliminary announcement even if there is specification of the date.

Date

Name

Event

Place

New Year's Day

Hakone's First Annual Event and Seven Gods Tour

Hakone Shrine/ Moto-Hakone and others

Lake Ashi and others

January 2nd, 3rd

Hakone Ekiden Race

Tokyo - Hakone College Ekiden Race ; Annual New Year Event

Route 1

January 5th

Lake Ashi Open Day

First Waterskiing; Purification of the Lake

Moto-Hakone

Feburuary 3rd

Hakone "Setsubun" Bean-throwing Festival

Bean-throwing While Waterskiing at Lake Ahi

Hakone Shrine

March 1st

Ayu (Sweet Fish) Season Opens at Lake Ashi

(At the Haya River on 2nd Sunday of March)

Lake Ashi, the Haya River

March 27th

"Yudate Shishimai" (Lion Dance) at Sengokuhara

Sengokuhara Shrine

Sengokuhara

April 12th

Kaempfer and Birnie Festival

Festival related to Kaempfer and Birnie

Motohakone

April 16th - 17th

Ohiradai Hot Spring Festival

Thanking Hot Springs

Ohiradai

May 5th

Kintoki Festival

Held at Sengokuhara Kintoki Shrine where Kintoki Sakata is deified

Sengokuhara

2nd Sunday of May

Kowakudani Azalea Festival

Held at Horaien

Kowakudani

End of May

Walking through Hakone Woods

Every spring the course is decided.

1st Sunday and Monday of June

Shogi (Japanese Chess) Championship

Mt. Hakone Shogi Championship

Lakearena

June 13th

Kuzuryu Shrine Festival

Festival Held at Kuzuryu Shrine by Lake Ashi

Kojiri

June 15th

"Yudate Shishimai" (Lion Dance) at Miyagino

Miyagino Shrine

Miyagino

July 31st

"Kosui Matsuri"; Lake Festival at Moto-Hakone

Firework Festival, Floating Lanterns

Motohakone

August 2nd

"Gojinkou sai" Festival

Matsuri God crosses the lake on a Houren.

Lake Ashi

August 2nd, 3rd

Hakone-En Summer Night Festival

Interesting Events and Firework Display

Hakone-En

August 3rd

"Hideyoshi Hyotan Matsuri"; Calabash Festival at Miyanoshita

Festival in relation to Taiko Hideyoshi

Miyanoshita

August 4th

Kojiri Ryujin God Festival

Display of Fireworks at Kojiri

Kojiri

August 5th

"Tori-Yaki" Torii Gate Burning and Lantern Floating Festival

Burning a Shinto Shrine Gate on Lake Ashi

Hakone

August 11th

Ohiradai Spa Summer Festival

Singing Show, Free Sake Service

Ohiradai

August 15th

Miyagino Summer Festival

God Ceremony and others

Miyagino

August 16th

"Daimonji Yaki"; Great Bon Fire Festival (With a Movie)

Starts at 7:30p.m.(Gora Summer Festival 14th-16th)

Gora

August 25th

"Susuki Matsuri" Festival

Grand Singing Show

Sengokuhara

September 9th

Yumoto Kumano Shrine Festival

Festival Thanking Hot Spring Gods

Yumoto

September 21st

Shogenji Temple Jizo Flea Market

Traditional Jizo (guardian deity of children and travelers) Flea Market

Yumoto

Middle of October

"Ashikari" Festival

Focusing on Cultural Inheritances in the Ashinoyu Region

Ahinoyu

October 24th

"Motomiya Reisati" Fastival

Festival on the Summit of Komagatake

Komagatake

November 3rd

Hakone Daimyo Gyoretsu; Feudal Lord's Parade (With a Movie)

Renactment of an Edo Period scene

Yumoto

Middle of November

Hakone Autumn Music Festival

Music Festival at Sengokuhara Cultural Hall

Sengokuhara

November 17th

Tonosawa Hibuse Kannon Bosatsu Festival

Festival dedicated to Kannon, god of mercy, near the Tonosawa station

Tonosawa

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