The "Oryomi Kagura" is held every year on July 20 in the evening in conjunction with the annual "Oryomi" festival. On the front stage of the Kaguraden, a shrine maiden with a lucky bamboo branch in her hand performs the Kagura, and the bamboo branch is given to the shrine maiden. In front of the main shrine, two icicle pillars containing wooden and sakaki prayer sticks are offered to pray for safety and good health. Visitors are invited to touch the icicles to purge themselves of the heat and to pray for safety from the heat, safety in the home, and good health.

Date / Saturday, July 20, 2024
Time/18:00-20:30 (every 15 minutes)
Fee: free to view (1,000 yen for the first harvest of the lucky bamboo special award)

Shimogamo-jinja Shrine (Sakyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture) is a power spot with the longest history in Kyoto. Every year around the day of the Ox of Doyo (the day of the first day of the Ox), the Ashitsuki ritual is held to pray for good health and safety by submerging one's feet knee-deep in the spring water of the Mitarashi Pond on the shrine's grounds.

Period / July 19 (Friday) to 28 (Sunday), 2024
Time / 9:00-20:00
Lantern fee/500 yen

Atago Shrine (Ukyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture) is the headquarters of Atago Shrine, one of about 900 such shrines throughout Japan, and is known for its spiritual power to prevent fire. The "Sennichimairi" (pilgrimage for a thousand days), which attracts tens of thousands of worshippers every year, is said to be a way to be spared from fire for the rest of one's life if one visits the shrine before the age of three.

Period / July 23, 2024 (Tuesday) 9:00 to August 1, 2024 (Thursday) 16:00
Detailed scheduleherecheck. The Goma-taki ritual is canceled.

The Honmiya Festival is a major festival in which worshippers from all over Japan, who worship the spirit of Inari, worship the head shrine (Fushimi Inari-taisha) in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture, to express their gratitude for the daily blessings of the gods. The Yoimiya Festival, held the day before the festival, features the Mantoh Ritual, in which stone lanterns and thousands of votive lanterns are lit on Inari Mountain and throughout the grounds of the shrine. In addition, about 400 lanterns dedicated to the shrine will be on display, and a variety of other events will be held in conjunction with the festival.

Time / Yoimiya Festival: Saturday, July 20, 2024, 18:00~, Hongu Festival: Sunday, July 21, 2024, 9:00~.