Onomichi Becher Festival
INFORMATION
- Duration
- 2025/11/01(SAT) - 2025/11/03(MON)
- Location
- Kibitsuhiko Shrine, the entire Onomichi city area
- Target person
- Anyone
- price
- free
- Event content
This is one of Onomichi's representative autumn festivals, held every year from November 1st to 3rd. On the third day, parishioners wearing three demon masks - Beta, Soba, and Shoki - parade through the town. It is said that if you are hit or poked on the head with the sasara or ceremonial sticks, you will be cured of illness, blessed with children, and become smarter.
[Usual course] November 1st: Mikoshi leaves the shrine, Lion procession November 2nd: Grand festival, Urayasu Dance and Betcher Taiko dedication November 3rd: Beta, Soba, Shoki and Lion procession, Mikoshi enters the shrine
- Website
- inquiry
Onomichi Becher Festival Preservation Society 0848-22-2320