The Gekkasai Festival, Tenjin’s autumn festival, will be held on Oct. 26. The festival was launched in 2012 to invigorate the Tenjin area, whose residential population is declining, and honors Kaguya-hime, the main character of the Heian Period fairy tale “The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter”. About 400 local residents will dress in period costumes and march in a parade from Kego park at 10:00 to Kego Shrine, through Meiji-dori Ave. ~ Nishi-dori Ave. A third-grade girl from Akasaka Elementary School will play the role of Kaguya-hime and will ride on a float. At 14:40, a portable Kaguya-hime shrine will be carried around 11 major shopping buildings in Tenjin and there will be a series of Kaguya-hime dances.
• 10/26 (Sun.) 10:00~ Tenjin parade 14:40~
• Free
• 2-2 Tenjin, Kego Park, Kego shrine, Chuo-ku
• http://www.fukuoka-matsuri.jp/
