2026 Ogata Sansha River Crossing Festival

About this event

With a tradition spanning over 800 years, this festival brings together the deities and parishioners of Ichi-no-Miya Shrine, Ni-no-Miya Shrine, and San-no-Miya Shrine at Ni-no-Miya Shrine to pray for the peace of citizens and bountiful harvests through sacred Shinto rituals and dedicated kagura performances. Following the joint ritual of the three shrines and the kagura offering on the riverbed at Harajiri Falls, in the evening visitors can witness the fantastic and heroic sight of San-no-Miya Shrine's portable shrine (mikoshi) being carried across the river. The mikoshi departs San-no-Miya Shrine at 11:00, arrives at the Harajiri Falls riverbed around 12:45 where the joint three-shrine Shinto ritual takes place, and dedicated kagura begins at 13:30. The climax is the river crossing of San-no-Miya Shrine's mikoshi at 18:00.

Venue

Ninomiya Hachiman Shrine (Ogata Sansha)

Harajiri, Ogata-machi, Bungo-ono, Oita 879-6631