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Japan's Top Imoni-kai Festival

日本一の芋煮会フェスティバル

A festival where the local Yamagata imoni is cooked on in a cauldron 6 meters in diameter. The soup is so large it is stirred with excavators. People come to see the spectacle and of course get a taste of the imoni.

Address
Along the Mamigasaki River, near Sotsukibashi Bridge
Hours
In Sept on the day before Respect for the Aged Day

Listing from Wikivoyage: Yamagata, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Updated 28 Sept 2026. Something wrong? Tell us.