Okuni Shrine Oharae-shiki & Joyasai

About this event

The Oharae-shiki (Great Purification Ritual) and Joyasai (New Year's Eve Festival) will be held at Okuni Shrine. Oharae-shiki is a Shinto ritual to purify the sins and defilements of the year. At Joyasai, the New Year's Eve bell is struck to welcome the new year. Visitors can experience the conclusion of the year-end and the start of the new year within a solemn atmosphere. Okuni Shrine has been revered since ancient times as the Ichinomiya (first shrine) of Totomi Province and is also known as a power spot. Many worshipers are expected to visit for this special year-end and New Year experience.

Venue

Totomi-no-Kuni Ichinomiya Okuni Shrine

3956-1 Ichinomiya, Mori-machi, Shuchi-gun, Shizuoka 437-0226