Takatori Tenmangu Shrine New Year's Day Festival and Hatsumode

About this event

At Takatori Tenmangu Shrine, the "New Year's Day Festival and Hatsumode" celebrating the dawn of the New Year is held every year. Many worshippers visit starting from the night of New Year's Eve, and from 12:00 midnight on January 1, the New Year's Day Festival is conducted, beginning the first prayers of the new spring. Typically, around midnight on New Year's Day, amazake is served complimentary on a first-come, first-served basis, allowing visitors to welcome the New Year with warm hospitality. Furthermore, around midday on January 1, Daidai Kagura is dedicated at the Kagura-den, followed by Sato Kagura on the next day, January 2, allowing visitors to encounter traditional performing arts. Visitors can welcome the beginning of the New Year with a refreshing feeling at Takatori Tenmangu Shrine, which enshrines Sugawara no Michizane, known as the deity of scholarship.

Venue

Takatori Tenmangu Shrine

1655 Otakashima, Itakura-machi, Ora-gun, Gunma 374-0122