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Komaki-City Tagata Jinja Shrine's Honen Festival

Date : 03/15/2025


A unique festival to write home about

The Honen Festival, held every March 15, has to be one of the rarest festivals in Japan. The festival features a 60-cm-diameter, more than 2-meter-long penis carved from Kiso cypress and placed on a portable shrine. Men at an unlucky age by Japanese superstition carry the portable shrine on their shoulders along to different stops until Tagata Jinja Shrine, where prayers are offered for a bountiful cereal harvest, universal development, and fertility.
As the old haiku states, "From the pastures to the mountains, All who come leave with smiles, From the Tagata Festival." People from all over—many from abroad coming out to see this unusual festival—can't help but smile.
The Honen Festival's portable shrine is designated an intangible folk cultural property of Komaki City by the Komaki City Board of Education.

  • Tagata Jinja Shrine
  • Tagata Jinja Shrine
  • Tagata Jinja Shrine
  • Tagata Jinja Shrine
  • Tagata Jinja Shrine
  • Tagata Jinja Shrine
  • Tagata Jinja Shrine

EVENT OVERVIEW

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Date : Sat, Mar 15, 2025
Holding time : 10:00 am–4:00 pm
Place : Tagata Jinja Shrine
Location : 〒485-0004
152 Tagata-cho, Komaki-shi, Aichi
Parking : Parking unavailable for event-goers on the day of the Honen Festival. Please use public transportation.
Phone number : 0568-76-2906
Volunteer guides : English guidance is available to foreign visitors thanks to the Komaki Interpretation Volunteer Society. Contact the Society by Fri, Mar 14 and meet your guide at Tagata Jinja Shrine's Main Hall from 10:00 am on the day of the festival.
Phone: 090-8072-2817
Email: noopy2476@yahoo.co.jp

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ACCESS

  • Access by public transport
    Access by public transport
    Change from Inuyama Station on the Meitetsu Inuyama Line to the Meitetsu Komaki Line and get off at Tagatajinja-Mae Station. Approx. 5-min. walk.
  • Access by car
    Access by car
    Please use public transportation.

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