Kouda Fire Festival

向田の火祭

This event takes place on the last Saturday of July every year, and is one of three special summer fire festivals in Japan. Many people gather to pull floats from local shrines to a central location, where small torches are thrown into an open space, creating one huge (30 m high) column of fire. People tell fortunes of the year's catch of fish and harvest by the direction of the torch when it falls.

• free

Address

Kouda Sakiyama Hiroba

Getting there

on the east coast of Notojima, about 30 minutes by car from central Nanao

Price

Free to enter