Owari Tsushima Autumn Festival
Date: Oct 4,2025(Sat)、Oct 5(Sun)
Parade floats, mechanized puppets, and musical accompaniments
The Owari Tsushima Festival is a traditional autumn festival said to have begun approximately 300 years ago. Detailed mechanized puppets on beautiful parade floats bring a distinct color to the city of Tsushima.
Something you definitely need to see is the men at the front of the floats lifting their end in order to rotate the float as well as the devotional performances by skillfully crafted, ornate mechanized puppets. Bells and taiko drums ring out as kagura music and dance performances bring you back into the Japan of yesteryear.
Sat, Oct 4, 2025
• Children’s musical accompaniment performance
Time: 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
Place: Tsushima Jinja Shrine
• Tsushima float gathering
Nanakiri floats
Gathering at Ichigamisha Shrine from around 4:00 pm
Lanterns lit at Ichigamisha Shrine from around 6:00 pm
Mukojima floats
Gathering and ceremony at Imorisha Shrine from around 2:00 pm
Imaichiba floats (festival dedication)
Gathering at Otsuchisha Shrine from around 2:00 pm
Sun, Oct 5, 2025
• Shimmori floats / Mechanized puppet performances (canceled in rainy weather)
Shimmori Branch Office from around 10:30 am / Akiba Jinja Shrine from around 2:00 pm / Okkan Jinja Shrine from around 2:50 pm / Hotoshi Jinja Shrine from around 4:00 pm
• Ishidori Festival floats (southern float, northern float, and central float)
Performance outside Tsushima Station from around 12:40 pm
Ceremony in front of Tsushima Jinja Shrine from around 2:30 pm
• Tsushima floats (Nanakiri floats, Mukoshima floats, and Imaichiba floats)
Mechanized puppet and float rotation display outside Tsushima Station from around 1:00 pm
Mechanized puppet ceremony at Tsushima Jinja Shrine from around 3:00 pm
Comprehensive float rotation (some may not participate) at the Tenno-dori 1 Intersection from around 7:00 pm
EVENT OVERVIEW
| Place | Tsushima Jinja Shrine, Tsushima Station, and other locations |
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| Location | 〒496-0851 1 Shimmei-cho, Tsushima-shi, Aichi Note: • The Access Map shows the location of Tsushima Jinja Shrine. |
| Parking | Temporary parking lot available at Tsushima City Nishi Elementary School (12:00 pm–8:00 pm on Sun, Oct 5, 2025) Note: • May become unavailable due to weather or other factors. • Congestion occurs on festival days. Come by train or bus if possible. |
| Restrooms | Available |
| Phone number | • 0567-28-8051 (Tsushima City Tourist Association, available 10:00 am–5:00 pm on weekdays) • 0567-55-9589 (Tourism and Industrial Promotion Section, Urban Development Department, Tsushima City Hall; available 8:30 am–5:15 pm on weekdays) |
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
- 15-min. walk west from Tsushima Station on the Meitetsu Tsushima Line / Meitetsu Bisai Line (from Nagoya Station, either take the Meitetsu Nagoya Line train bound for Inuyama/Gifu and change trains at Sukaguchi Station, or take either Kintetsu Nagoya Line or JR Kansai Main Line and change trains at Yatomi Station).
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- Access by car
- • Approx. 15 min. from Yatomi Interchange on the Higashi-Meihan Expressway via Route 155.
• Approx. 35 min. from Bisai Interchange on the Tokai-Hokuriku Expressway via Route 155.
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