Latest Events in Toyama Prefecture(December Updated)

It has been 210 days since the beginning of spring, and in the early autumn breeze, people hold the Owara Bon Festival. The Owara Bon Festival is a traditional event with a history of about 300 years, dating back to the Genroku period. It is held from September 1st to 3rd every year, and many tourists from ancient and modern times come to participate. As night falls, the mountains are dyed red, and lanterns in every household begin to light up, and the Owara Wind Bon Festival officially kicks off. Dancers dressed in yukata or happi, wearing straw hats, with beautiful faces, dance gracefully and delicately. They sing and dance, and the parade runs around, fully displaying the traditions and characteristics of their respective towns. Behind the town parade, people join the parade, immersed in the melancholy melody and the atmosphere of Owara.

The Shogawa Tourism Festival brings early summer to Tonami City. The torch parade, the grand night light show, and the fireworks flying in the night sky together create a gorgeous illusion of light. The clash between the Yotaka lanterns is also very fierce.

The Toyama Tanabata Festival is a representative event of Toyama Prefecture with a history of more than 300 years. The lively fireworks display is wonderful, including 100 cm fireworks, starlight fireworks, message fireworks, and music performances. There is also a Tanabata shrine that is rare in the country and can be visited during the day. There will also be food stalls and other stalls on the day of the event.

The Furusato Ryugu Festival Sea Fireworks Festival in Namerikawa City, Toyama Prefecture will be held from 8:10 to 8:45 pm on July 20, 2025. This fireworks festival is part of the Furusato Ryugu Festival, an important event in Namerikawa City. Various exciting programs will be held during the Furusato Ryugu Festival, including stage performances, traditional dances, food stalls, etc. These activities not only showcase the traditional culture of Namerikawa City, but also attract a large number of tourists to participate. As the finale of the festival, the fireworks festival will bloom over Toyama Bay. The largest-scale three-foot-tama fireworks in Toyama Prefecture are one of the most anticipated highlights of this event. The brilliant fireworks illuminate the night sky and bring a perfect end to the Furusato Ryugu Festival. Come to Namerikawa City to leave beautiful summer memories!

The Toyama Kita Nippon Shimbun Summer Fireworks Festival is the most spectacular light show in Toyama Prefecture, held at the lower reaches of the Arisawa Bridge of the Jinzu River near the city center. Many families and couples come here to visit. A large circle of brilliant light appears in the sky, including colorful star mines and a series of huge fireworks. The Summer Fireworks Festival, held every August 1, began two years after the Great Toyama Air Raid (August 1-2, 1945) with the purpose of praying for the victims and praying for reconstruction and peace.

The Tateyama Festival is massive and ever-changing. You'll want to experience it all at once. Thirteen districts, eight shrines, and fifteen deities parade through their respective neighborhoods and around Tateyama Shrine, with seven portable shrines and six floats. They sometimes gather together, sometimes disperse, each singing exciting kiyari songs, praying and playing according to their own traditions; sometimes they collaborate to perform entertaining songs and dances; finally, they gather together to put on a grand performance full of vitality, music and color.

Etchu Owara (Etchu Owara) has been performed for over 300 years in this village nestled among the mountains southwest of Toyama City. It is both song and dance, lyrical, delicate, elegantly mournful. Thousands of paper lanterns line the old-fashioned townscape of lattice doors, while men and women in happi coats and yukatas dance through the hillside village to the accompaniment of samisen, kokyus (traditional Japanese stringed instruments) and taiko drums. You will be enchanted by the calm, dreamy atmosphere. Street performances are held in each area.

Kaze-no-Bon (風の盆) is a Japanese festival held every year from September 1 to 3 in Yatsuo, Toyama, Japan. Kaze-no-Bon literally translates to "Bon Dance of the Wind." This festival, having a history of about 300 years, recently became[when?] a popular tourist attraction to the otherwise sparsely populated mountain area. The original festival was held in order to appease typhoons and allow for a bountiful harvest of rice.

Kushida Shrine holds a traditional event every autumn. After a procession of portable shrines and lion dances around the community center, a "cedar branch" is burned within the shrine grounds. Participants bravely walk through the flames, purifying their bodies and minds. The festival's exact origins are unclear, but it is believed to have been introduced by monks from Tendai Sanbushi, as the Tendai sect's three schools were once located in the hills of Mount Osa, south of the shrine.