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Oct 13, 2020 Local News
Dazaifu Tenmangu Advises New Year Visitors to Avoid Jan. 1 ~ 3
Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine is asking new year visitors to avoid visiting the area between January 1 ~ 3, 2021. Usually, the area is seen by some 2 million people during the first thre...
START: Sep 20, 2020 END: Sep 25, 2020 Event
Jinkoshiki Festival at Dazaifu Tenmangu
Jinkoshiki is a Shinto festival to bring peace and prosperity and to give thanks for an abundant autumn harvest, held since 1101. It is also an Intangible Folk Cultural Property of...
START: Mar 1, 2020 END: Mar 1, 2020 Event
Dazaifu Tenmangu Kyokusui-no-en Festival
Since the Heian period, this elegant annual festival sees Waka poets in traditional kimono sit along a stream composing poems amongst 6,000 blossoming plum trees. But there’s a cat...
START: Feb 25, 2020 END: Feb 25, 2020 Event
Dazaifu Tenmangu Ume Festival
Feb. 25 is the anniversary of the death of Michizane Sugawara, enshrined in Dazaifu Tenmangu as the god of education. On this day, priests of the shrine wear plum branches on their...
START: Jan 7, 2020 END: Jan 7, 2020 Event
Dazaifu Tenmangu – New Year’s Fire Festival
The Onisube Shinji festival takes place at the beginning of each year inside the grounds of Dazaifu Tenmangu. The event...
START: Jan 26, 2020 END: Jan 26, 2020 Event
Momote Festival at Yodogawa Tenmangu Shrine
The Momote Festival is a traditional festival which sees locals gather at the Yodogawa Tenmangu Shrine to pray for a good harvest and cleanse their lives of evil. It is also recogn...
START: Jul 11, 2019 END: Nov 4, 2019 Event
Sword Exhibition at Dazaifu Tenmangu
An exhibition of fifteen swords, including those dedicated to the god of Dazaifu Tenmangu shrine, is being held inside the Treasure Hall on the shrine’s premises. While swords orig...
START: Jul 24, 2019 END: Jul 25, 2019 Event
Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine Summer Tenjin Festival
Celebrate the birth of Tenjin-sama, Shinto god of literature. Children march with mikoshi (portable shrines) and walk through woven hoops for good health. Watch the yukata (summer ...
START: Jul 7, 2019 END: Jul 7, 2019 Event
Tanabata Festivities at Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine
The Tanabata Banquet at Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine was first held in 1046 and has been regularly held since 1957. During the event, many people visit the shrine to wish for growth in ...
START: May 31, 2019 END: Jun 16, 2019 Event
Iris Light Up & Concert at Dazaifu Tenmangu
Thirty thousand Japanese irises of 55 different species are set to bloom in the picturesque Shobuike Pond for two weeks from the end of this month, signalling the advent of summer....