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Festivals/Events (Summer)

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Momochi Seaside Festa
092-833-4412 (Sawara ward-Regional Development Division)
Around Fukuoka Tower

This festa is held in late July with various events taking place around Fukuoka tower, sponsored and supported by local groups and companies of Sawara-ku area. Make sure to Visit the festa if you want to add another memorable day to your summer vacation.

Ohori Festival
[Ohori Festival EXCO.]　092-712-2268 [Nishinihon Ohori Fire Festival HO.] 092-711-5506
Ohori Koen (entire park), Chuo-ku, Fukuoka

Ohori Matsuri consists of 2 events. One is West Japan Ohori Fireworks Display on the 1st of August and the other is the festival on the 3rd of November with the Marching of 25 samurais of Kuroda clan and Aratsuno Mai (traditional dance performance). The fireworks display, established as a local s...

Hakata Gion Yamakasa
Hakata Gion Yamakasa Promoters 092-291-2951
[Kushida Shrine] 1-41, Kamikawabata-machi, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka

This festival is said to originate from the legend that the founder of Shotenji Temple scattered sacred water to get rid of plague. Come the 1st of July, the town of Hakata becomes filled with a festive mood, with floats over 10 meters height exhibited at 14 spots around town. The climax of the f...

Hakata Bon-Niwaka Contest
Inside Fukuoka Tourism Bureau [Hakata Niwaka Promotion Office] 092-733-5050
1-10-1, Tenjin, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka (1st floor of North annex of Fukuoka City Hall)

People join the Hitokuchi Niwaka Contest looking for a few laughs to get them through the lingering heat of August. Hakata niwaka is a folk narrative art. A narrator with a funny mask called Niwaka satirizes the problems of society and finishes the narration with a good punch line in Hakata diale...

the Fukuoka International Gift Show
Business Guide-SHA, Inc. International Gift Show Office 03-3843-9901(dilect line)
[Marine Messe Fukuoka] 7-1, Okihama-machi, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka

The Fukuoka International Commodity Fair was succeeded in 2005 by the Fukuoka International Gift Show. Various items for personal gifts and household goods are brought from Asian regions and make Fukuoka’s fair different from the ones in Tokyo or Osaka. In 2008, the fair will be held at Marinemes...

Nishinihon Ohori Fireworks
092-711-5506 (Nishinihon News Operation Cultural Sports Department)
1-2, Ohori koen, Chuok-ku, Fukuoka

This fireworks display boasts the biggest scale in the city with 6000 shots of fireworks and thousands of visitors. Fire works are shot off from the central island of a pond in Ohori Park, and you can see them from all around the lake.

Kasuga Andon Festival
092-581-1407 (Kasuga Public Festival Promotion)
1-4, Haramachi 3-chome, Kasuga

This festival at the Kasuga park was originally started as a ritual to comfort the souls of old ancestors. Fireworks display is held after various events.

Sentomyo
092-922-8225
7-1, Saifu 4-chome, Dazaifu, Fukuoka

This is a fantastic ritual of Dazaifu Tenmangu shrine, where a thousand of candles are lit up over the lake and shrine maidens tribute their dances to god.

Kyokusui no en
092-922-8225
7-1, Saifu 4-chome, Dazaifu, Fukuoka

This is a representation of an old shrine ritual of Heian era (from the 9th to the 12th century) where an attendant makes a poem before a flowing dish of sake passes over.