Arifuku Onsen Kaguraden Teiki Kouen (有福温泉 神楽殿 定期公演)
In a terraced hot-spring village praised for its skin-beautifying waters, a purpose-built kagura stage brings audiences and performers almost nose-to-nose for weekly Iwami Kagura performances.
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"At the foot of Mount Sanbe, the Tane Kagura Transmission Hall keeps alive an Iwami Kagura tradition embedded in the Japan Heritage site of Sabimeyama Shrine."
Tane Kagura Denshokan Teiki Kouen (多根神楽伝承館 定期公演)
"Held in the historic castle town of Tsuwano with special performances also staged at the Taikodani Inari Shrine, this monthly Iwami Kagura series brings fierce mask-drama to an elegantly preserved samurai streetscape."
Tsuwano Iwami Kagura Teiki Kouen (津和野 石見神楽 定期公演)
"In the mountain-headwaters village of Yoshika-cho, the Kameyama Kagura troupe performs eight Iwami Kagura pieces including the great serpent Yamata-no-Orochi, accompanied by the Yakuro Taiko drum ensemble."
Nanatsuichi Kagura Festival 2026 (七日市神楽祭)
"Inside the lantern-lit Tatsu-no-Gozen Shrine of a UNESCO World Heritage spa village, Iwami Kagura performers enact deity battles at close quarters in an intimate 65-seat shrine hall."
Yunotsu Onsen Yokagura (温泉津温泉 夜神楽)
"A recreated mountain-village complex in the heartland of Hiroshima kagura country hosts near-weekly Chugoku kagura performances inside its dedicated Kamukura-za theatre and Kagura Dome."
Kagura Monzen Tojimura Weekend Kagura (神楽門前湯治村 定例公演)
"On the tiny island of Tsuken-jima off the Okinawa coast, men perform a rare circle dance of Chinese origin in traditional summer dress to hand-held drums, a centuries-old communal rite confined almost entirely to this one small island community."
Too Udui Dance
"On a remote island of 1,600 people, over 60 distinct dances performed across seven hamlet stages during Obon include the beloved Kitsune Fox Dance, where children in white fox makeup charm crowds that triple the island's population."
Himeshima Bon Odori
"Youth seinenkai groups carry odaiko and paranku drums through the streets of Yomitan village on all three Obon nights, performing ancestral eisa in the living community tradition rather than on a stage."
Okinawa Obon Eisa Michi-uchi (Village Street Eisa)
"Praying for the five-grain harvest and plentiful fishing from Lake Ogawara, neighbourhood teams in Tohoku-machi's Kamikita district parade hand-made dashi floats to the cry of 'Yare, Yare' along a one-kilometre course in one of Aomori's most community-rooted autumn customs."
Tohoku-machi Aki Matsuri Kamikita (東北町秋まつり上北地区)
"Elegantly costumed dancers in deep sedge hats drift silently through lantern-lit cobblestone streets to mournful kokyu strings in one of Japan's most atmospheric rural autumn customs."
Owara Kaze no Bon (おわら風の盆)
"In this remarkably preserved samurai village, eighteen hikiyama kabuki floats weighing several tonnes are hauled through cherry-lined streets and deliberately rammed into one another at crossroads in the centuries-old buttsuke collision ritual."
Kakunodate no Matsuri (角館祭り)