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Owari Yokosuka Festival

Owari Yokosuka Festival

Date: Sep 27,2025(Sat)、Sep 28(Sun)

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Honor and prestige at stake, flawlessly controlling beautiful parade floats

This event is held on the fourth Sunday and preceding Saturday in September to coincide with a regular festival at Atago Jinja Shrine. Elaborately carved and embroidered parade floats spin around at street corners in the awe-inspiring act of donten. On the evening of the Main Festival, the Great Donten is performed as the Owari Yokosuka Festival's main spectacle.
After the Great Donten finishes, the parade floats are adorned with paper lanterns for a surreal nighttime experience to everyone's delight. The Hon-machi, Kita-machi, Entsu and Hachiko, and Daimon Floats are said to have been created at the end of the Edo period and all are tangible folk cultural properties of Tokai City.

Parade float introduction (all floats designated Tokai City tangible folk cultural properties)

• Hon-machi float: Built in 1842 / Approx. 6.8 m high, approx. 2.5 m wide, approx. 5.7 m deep / Features a mechanized puppet of Chinese historian and scholar Sima Guang breaking a jar as in a famous myth
• Kita-machi float: Built in 1827 / Approx. 6.75 m high, approx. 2.5 m wide, approx. 5.65 m deep / Features a mechanized puppet doing a handstand on a maple and banging a drum
• Entsu float: Built in 1819 / Approx. 6.45 m high / approx. 2.5 m wide / approx. 5.5 m deep / Features a mechanized puppet of a child in traditional Chinese dress shooting a bow and arrow
• Hachiko float: Built in 1823 / Approx. 6.15 m tall / approx. 2.5 m wide / approx. 5.45 m deep / Features a mechanized puppet doing a handstand on another's shoulders and banging a drum
• Daimon float: Assumed to be built in 1794 / Approx. 6.05 m tall / approx. 2.35 m wide / approx. 5.2 m deep / Features a mechanized dancer puppet changing into shrine

EVENT OVERVIEW

Place	Around Yokosuka Town in the city of Tokai and Atago Jinja Shrine
Location	〒477-0036 23-1 Yonnowari, Yokosuka-machi, Tokai-shi, Aichi (Atago Jinja Shrine) Note: • The Access Map shows the location of Atago Jinja Shrine.
Parking	Available, some pay parking Temporary parking lot: Motohama Park Parking Lot, etc. Note: • Come by public transportation when possible as parking near the venue is limited.
Restrooms	Available
Phone number	0562-32-2557 (Yokosuka Festival Preservation Society)

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ACCESS

Access by public transport

5-min. (550 m) walk north from Owari Yokosuka Station of the Meitetsu Tokoname Line (board from Meitetsu Nagoya Station).
Access by car

Approx. 15 min. (4.2 km) west of Obu-Tokai Interchange on the Chitahanto Road via Route 155.

Note:
• Traffic restrictions may occur in the area in Yokosuka Town and the surrounding area due to the parade float procession.