Held on July 27, 2025! Watch the famous "Yokota" at the summer festival of Haneda Shrine [Haneda Matsuri

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Haneda Festival Mikoshi Carriage
Held on the last Saturday and Sunday of July at Haneda Shrine in Tokyo's Ota Ward, the Haneda Festival is a very lively summer festival that attracts more than 3,000 people carrying portable shrines and 30,000 spectators.

Sunday, July 27, 2025! Haneda Festival.

All events will be held rain or shine

The highlight of this year's festival is the first time in six years that a palanquin parade is held to "commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Showa period. The Showa period began on December 25, 1926, and the year 2025 will mark the 100th anniversary of the Showa period.

A map of the Haneda Shrine headquarters' mikoshi and imperial carriage parade

A procession of imperial palanquin carriages

A palanquin is a "imperial carriage with a phoenix decoration on the roof" and is considered a noble vehicle. On the other hand, mikoshi is a vehicle used to carry the "sacred body" and is carried by people at festivals. While the mikoshi is carried by a person, the imperial palanquin is usually pulled by a car or oxen.
Regular Festival Schedule
A palanquin (image from 2028)
This year's palanquin parade will be led by an ox

○July 25(Fri.)

7:00 p.m. Mikoshi installation ceremony at the head shrine

July 26 (Saturday)

9:00 a.m. Grand Ceremony
10:00 a.m. Purification Ceremony at Otabisho
Evening - each town council parades its own portable shrine

July 27 (Sun)

7:30 a.m. - after midnight Headquarters portable shrine and imperial carriage parade through all of Haneda
3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Joint parade of portable shrines in the town (14 town councils, 14 carriages)

Haneda Festival

Let's go see the famous "Yokota" of Haneda Festival!

The Haneda Festival portable shrine is commonly called "Yokota" (meaning "to carry" in Japanese), and is carried in a large rolling motion with the portable shrine pushed 90 degrees to the right and left. When the person on the right rises, the person on the left crouches down, and this is repeated alternately. This is a unique style of carrying that imitates a boat bobbing in the waves, and is unique to Haneda, which prospered as a fishing town in the olden days.
Click here for the Haneda United Mikoshi video

Joint parade of portable shrines in the town (parade of portable shrines)

On Sunday afternoon, 14 portable shrines from 14 town councils parade through the streets of Yokota for nearly three hours in the town's Mikoshi Parade.
Flight attendants from All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines will be invited from Haneda Airport, one of the Ujiko, to add color to the parade. This is probably the only festival in all of Japan where so many flight attendants from each airline company participate.
Parade of portable shrines (
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Parade of portable shrines in the commercial district

Haneda Shrine, the general guardian of Haneda

The "Ujigami Shrine of Haneda", revered by those in the aviation industry

Haneda Shrine is the guardian deity of the entire Haneda area, including Haneda Airport. The shrine is highly revered by airline companies and those involved in aviation, and is visited by people throughout the year to pray for air safety and flight safety.
Many people dedicate prayer ema (votive picture tablet) to pray for the success of pilots and cabin attendants!
In 1861, when the smallpox epidemic broke out, the shogun Tokugawa Iesada paid a visit to the shrine to pray for the cure of the disease, and was healed. The "Haneda Fujizuka" on the grounds of the shrine is a symbol of the shrine's prosperity. Sengen Shrine is enshrined at the top of Haneda Fuji Mound (a cultural asset of Ota Ward), which is located in the precincts of the shrine. The deity of Sengen Shrine, Kihanasakuyahime-no-Mikoto, is said to have the divine virtues of ensuring easy childbirth and giving birth to a child.

Pop out! Red seals! Pop-up! Haneda Shrine Mikoshi Red Seal".

Available from Tuesday, July 1 to Thursday, July 31

*Reception of red seals is from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

You can get a vermilion seal for such an elaborately made portable shrine that pops up!
The period is from July 1 to July 31, the summer festival period, and the hours are from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm. This is unique to Haneda Shrine, which is often prayed for air safety! It is decorated with a picture of an airplane. The special red seal is only available during this period, so be sure to get one to commemorate the occasion!
Pop-up portable shrine red seal

Haneda Shrine Summer Festival in 2025
-Special red seal for the festival month
Tuesday, July 1 - Thursday, July 31
"Special red seal for the festival month"
♦Pop-up Mikoshi 1,200 yen
♦Two types of calligraphy inserts 500 yen each
*All items will be "calligraphy inserts" from July 19 (Sat) to July 28 (Mon).
For details, please visit Haneda Shrine Facebook and Instagram.
Image courtesy of Haneda Shrine
*This article is current as of June 2025.

The latest information will be updated on our website and Facebook.

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