{"id":174632,"date":"2025-12-03T16:52:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=174632&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2025-12-03T16:52:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:52:42","slug":"atago-shrine-fire-festival-2025","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/atago-shrine-fire-festival-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Atago Shrine Fire Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A long-standing year-end ritual held at Atago Shrine, one of Fukuoka\u2019s most revered spiritual sites, the \u201cDai Saito Gomaku\u201d fire ceremony invites participants to cast wooden prayer sticks (gomagi) into a sacred fire. As flames rise, individuals walk barefoot across the embers to cleanse misfortunes and purify body and mind. Open to all, this solemn Shinto rite offers a chance to reset before welcoming the New Year amid the crisp winter air.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-174640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fn_atago-shrine-fire-festival_2025_cl-001.jpg?resize=1400%2C944&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Atago Shrine Fire Festival, \u611b\u5b95\u795e\u793e\u306e\u706b\u796d\u308a\u30fb \u5927\u67f4\u71c8\u8b77\u6469\u4f9b\" width=\"1400\" height=\"944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fn_atago-shrine-fire-festival_2025_cl-001.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fn_atago-shrine-fire-festival_2025_cl-001.jpg?resize=300%2C202&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fn_atago-shrine-fire-festival_2025_cl-001.jpg?resize=1024%2C690&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fn_atago-shrine-fire-festival_2025_cl-001.jpg?resize=768%2C518&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 12\/5 (Fri.)<br \/>\n\u2022 10:30~12:00<br \/>\n\u2022 Goma stick (prayer stick) \u00a5500<br \/>\n\u2022 Washio Atago Shrine<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/bDGYuVojW2PB8UBaA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2-7-1 Atago, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/washioatago-jinja.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/washioatago-jinja.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-174641\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fn_atago-shrine-fire-festival_2025_cl-002.jpg?resize=1400%2C944&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Atago Shrine Fire Festival, \u611b\u5b95\u795e\u793e\u306e\u706b\u796d\u308a\u30fb \u5927\u67f4\u71c8\u8b77\u6469\u4f9b\" width=\"1400\" height=\"944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fn_atago-shrine-fire-festival_2025_cl-002.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fn_atago-shrine-fire-festival_2025_cl-002.jpg?resize=300%2C202&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fn_atago-shrine-fire-festival_2025_cl-002.jpg?resize=1024%2C690&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fn_atago-shrine-fire-festival_2025_cl-002.jpg?resize=768%2C518&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long-standing year-end ritual held at Atago Shrine, one of Fukuoka\u2019s most revered spiritual sites&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30291,"featured_media":174640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-174632","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-nishi-ku","event-type-culture","event-type-festival","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/174632","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\/30291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}