A guide map "How to Enjoy the Kanda Festival" to enjoy 100% of the Kanda Festival, which will be held for the first time in four years, is available at "JR Akihabara Station" and "Chiyoda City Tourist Information Center" and other locations from April 28, 2012!

A guide map "How to Enjoy the Kanda Festival," which will be distributed at JR Akihabara Station, Chiyoda City Tourist Information Centers, and other locations from April 28 (Fri.), is now available for 100% enjoyment of the Kanda Festival, which will be held for the first time in four years.

The Kanda Festival, which will be held from May 11 (Thu.) to 17 (Wed.), 2023, is held once every two years under the auspices of Kanda Myojin, and is a major festival that attracts more than 300,000 people to the town each time. This year, the festival will be held for the first time in four years, and an even greater number of spectators is expected. Some first-time visitors to the Kanda Festival say they do not know how to enjoy the multiple days of the festival, and the "Kanda Festival Guide" has been published as a guide map to help beginners enjoy the festival 100%.

Chiyoda City Tourism Association, the tourism association that published the "How to Enjoy Kanda Festival" and knows Chiyoda City well, recommends the following five highlights of the Kanda Festival that even beginners can enjoy.

(1) Kanko Matsuri and Tsuke Matsuri merge! A huge procession of thousands of people!
The Jinko Matsuri parades through 108 Ujiko town councils in Kanda, Nihonbashi, and other areas, covering a distance of about 30 km. The procession joins the Tsuke Matsuri at Nihonbashi, and swells into a huge procession of thousands of people. Please come and see the gorgeous parade in downtown Edo.

Location: Chuo-dori (Nihonbashi - Kanda)
Date & Time: Saturday, May 13, 16:30-17:30

(2) Miyairi from morning to night!
The 108 town councils of Ujiko, 200 portable shrines of various sizes parade through the streets of Kanda and enter Kanda Myojin one after another from morning to night with the chants of stylish and inelegant Edo-kko. This is the highlight of the Kanda Festival. Please come and experience the power of the festival.
Location：Kanda Myojin
Date & Time: Sunday, May 14, 9:00 - 18:30

(3)Electric Town will be filled up! Mikoshi Heaven
Akihabara is famous as a center of electronics and pop culture. The sight of the portable shrines, their carriers, and the crowds filling the entire main street is a must-see.
Location: Chuo-dori Street (Akihabara)
Date/Time: Sunday, May 14, around 12:30 p.m.

(4)The only one of its kind at the Kanda Festival! The "Original Female Mikoshi" carried by only women
The history of the "Onna-mikoshi" carried by the Suda-machi Chubu-cho Town Council dates back to 1977 (Showa 52), and can truly be called the originator of the festival. The "Mikoshi" is a stylish female figure wearing a hachimaki with white cherry blossoms dyed through it on a scarlet background, a daboshatu, and a black haanten.
Location：Mikoshi parade route
Date/Time: Sunday, May 14, from around 10:00 a.m.

(5) Mikoshi will jack up the station premises!
The portable shrines of local town councils will make a special parade in the premises of JR stations. It is very rare among the many town council mikoshi, and you will be lucky if you can see the overwhelming moment!
Location: JR Kanda Station, JR Akihabara Station

<Outline of the event
■Schedule of the festival

May 11 (Thu.) 19:00 - Mishizo (palanquin) transfer ceremony
May 12 (Fri.) Evening: Ujishi-cho kai Mikoshi Shinrei-in
May 13 (Sat) Shinko Matsuri(*), Tsuke Matsuri
May 14 (Sun) Entrance of portable shrine(*)
May 16 (Tue) 11:00- Tea offering ceremony (by the Omote-Senke Iemoto)
　　　　　　　18:00- Myojin Takigi Noh (Firelit Noh Play), Yugen no Hana
May 17 (Wed.) 14:00- Regular Festival
The Kanda Myojin Festival and Mikoshi Miyairi will be streamed live on the official Kanda Myojin YouTube channel .

What is the Kanda Festival?

The Kanda Festival is one of the three major festivals in Edo and one of the three major festivals in Japan, and is held every two years in the Kanda-Nihonbashi area. Tokugawa Ieyasu prayed to Kanda Myojin for victory in the Battle of Sekigahara, and since the day of his victory fell on the day of the festival, he considered it an auspicious shrine and ordered that the festival be held without interruption.
Kanda Myojin was founded in 730 in the present Otemachi area, and was relocated to its present location in 1616, the guardian of the Omote Onimon gate of Edo Castle.

About the "How to Enjoy the Kanda Festival Guide

Installation period: April 28 (Fri.) -
Location: Chiyoda City Tourist Information Center and other tourist information centers in Chiyoda City, JR Kanda Station/JR Akihabara Station/JR Ochanomizu Station, etc.
How to enjoy Kanda Festival (Web version)
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