Toei Festival
Date: Nov 3,2025(Mon)
The culmination of fun in the Toei area!
The Toei Festival acts as the opening event for and digest version of the area's Hana Festivals—national important intangible folk cultural properties. Japanese taiko drum group Shidara performs thundering shows, the Toei Market takes place, and many other events offer lots of fun in one location.
Don't miss the town of Toei's largest fall event!
So… Just what is a Hana Festival?
Hana Festivals are said to have begun around Aichi's eastern Okumikawa region during the Kamakura and Muromachi periods as religious rites conducted by hermit, ascetic monks in the mountains. The festivals last all night long with 40 dances performed to pray for harmony between man and the gods, bountiful harvests, and good health. Hana Festivals are designated national intangible folk cultural properties and have been observed for nearly 700 years by generations of residents in the Okumikawa region of which the town of Toei is part.
Learn more about Hana Festivals from the Toei Town Hall's Hana Festival site (external link).
Program (tentative)
10:00 am Opening and Toei Market
12:10 pm Japanese taiko drum performance (Toei Elementary School)
12:30 pm Opening ceremony
12:50 pm Hana Festival (Kochi Hana Festival Preservation Society)
1:40 pm Japanese taiko drum performance by Shidara
2:30 pm Showing of Sakaki Demons
3:35 pm Hana Festival performance (Ashikome Hana Festival Preservation Society)
Note:
• Event details subject to change.
Scenes from events
EVENT OVERVIEW
| Date | 10:00 am–4:30 pm |
|---|---|
| Place | Toei Dome |
| Location | 〒449-0214 1 Kami-Obayashi, Hongo, Toei-cho, Kita-Shitara-gun, Aichi |
| Parking | Available, free of charge (300 spaces) at the Toei Town Multipurpose Ground |
| Phone number | 0536-76-1812 (Economic Affairs Division, Toei Town Hall) |
Note: This page may not be current due to update time differences between site databases.
Should accuracy be critical, please verify this information using a direct source, whenever possible.
ACCESS
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- Access by public transport
- From Toei Station on the JR Iida Line (board from Toyohashi Station, in turn reachable by the JR Tokaido Main Line or Meitetsu Nagoya Line from Nagoya Station), take the Toei Line Bus #3, and get off at Hongo. Walk 3 min. south (walking the reverse way of the bus route, turning left on Route 151, and then left again), then walk east 5 min. (at the crossroads, keep going uphill toward the large white Hana Matsuri [Hana Festival] Hall).
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- Access by car
- Coming by the Shin-Tomei Expressway, change to the San-Ennanshin Expressway at Hamamatsu-Inasa Junction. Exit from Horaikyo Interchange, and head north on Route 151 for approx. 12.2 km (15 min.). Before the Hongo crossing, turn right (look for the white sign indicating the Toei Green House, Hanamatsuri Hall and Okumikawa Youth House - turn right 30 m after the sign). Follow this road for 300 m and, at the crossroads, keep going uphill toward for the large white Hanamatsuri Hall building.
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