About this event
A Shinto ritual to pray for a good year upon welcoming the New Year. On the day of the festival, sumo wrestlers hold mochi-tossing events, mock stalls are set up, and open-air festival booths line the approach path. It is the largest festival of Izumo Taisha Sagami Bunshi, drawing large crowds alongside Hatsumode visitors. It is popular as a New Year event where people pray for 'the auspicious tying of happiness' and where the parent-and-child deities, Daikoku-sama and Ebisu-sama, join together to share good fortune.
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Izumo Taisha Sagami Bunshi Shrine
1221 Hirasawa, Hadano, Kanagawa 257-0015
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