{"id":173728,"date":"2025-10-20T15:32:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T06:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=173728&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2025-10-20T15:32:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T06:32:41","slug":"kego-marche-in-gekkasai-festival-2025","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/kego-marche-in-gekkasai-festival-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Kego Marche in Gekkasai Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six shrines in the Tenjin area\u2014Kego, Wakamiya, Kogarasu, Kotohira, Sugawara, and Sakuragamine\u2014unite for the annual Gekkasai Festival. This year, a new market will be held alongside the celebrations, with local restaurants serving oden, gyoza, curry, and more, plus traditional festival games. The program also includes the open karaoke contest Tenjin Utauma King Championship. The finale, the Gekkasai Parade, begins at 13:30 on Oct. 26 (Sun) and features a colorful procession of mikoshi (portable shrines) inspired by Japanese mythology, including Princess Kaguya.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-173730\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fn_gekka-festival_2025_cl-002.jpg?resize=1400%2C933&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Kego Marche in Gekkasai Festival\" width=\"1400\" height=\"933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fn_gekka-festival_2025_cl-002.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fn_gekka-festival_2025_cl-002.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fn_gekka-festival_2025_cl-002.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fn_gekka-festival_2025_cl-002.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 10\/18 (Sat.) ~ 10\/26 (Sun.)<br \/>\n\u2022 10\/26: Ceremony 13:00~ \/ Parade 13:30~<br \/>\n\u2022 Kego Shrine, Kego Park<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/AGYkoJVirQxK9FLJ9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2-2 Tenjin, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-matsuri.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.fukuoka-matsuri.jp\/<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kego.marche\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kego.marche\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Foods<\/span><br \/>\n\u2022 <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yatai Keiji (*only Sat., Sun.) <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/yataikeiji\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@yataikeiji<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Korean Restaurant Apuro <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/apurodaimyo\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@apurodaimyo<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Motsunabe Sendo <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/motsunabe_sendo\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@motsunabe_sendo<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">KRAZY\u00d7MEAT <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/krazymeat\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@krazymeat<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hakata Gyoza Taketora <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/taketora_imaizumi\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@taketora_imaizumi<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stand Maruni <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/standmaruni.2023\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@standmaruni.2023<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Butter Chicken Lover <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/butter_chicken.lover\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@butter_chicken.lover<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">THE KEGO CLUB (*only Sat., Sun.) <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thekegoclub_wedding\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@thekegoclub_wedding<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-173729\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fn_gekka-festival_2025_cl-001.jpg?resize=1400%2C933&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Kego Marche in Gekkasai Festival\" width=\"1400\" height=\"933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fn_gekka-festival_2025_cl-001.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fn_gekka-festival_2025_cl-001.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fn_gekka-festival_2025_cl-001.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fn_gekka-festival_2025_cl-001.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six shrines in the Tenjin area\u2014Kego, Wakamiya, Kogarasu, Kotohira, Sugawara, and Sakuragamine\u2014unite for the annual Gekkasai Festival&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":173730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-173728","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-tenjin","event-type-festival","event-type-food-drink","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/173728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}