This is a spring event for the enjoyment of flowers and scents, created by gathering ideas from a female perspective with the theme of “playing with flowers and scents”.
With the Shirakabe historic district as a venue, participants play a fan-tossing game, where folding fans are thrown at a target called a “butterfly”. People also gather to sing Matsushima Utako’s famous songs. Visitors who wear a kimono to the event can receive a special bonus gift.
Month: January 2025
Merchant Town Yanai Hina Doll Tour
Held in February and March, from the Shirakabe historic district to Retoro-dori street.
The Hina dolls that have been handed down within the families of Shirakabe will be on display during this period.
A variety of charming Hina dolls can be seen, including handmade dolls and some that date back as far as the Meiji period.
Atsuki Shinmei Festival
This traditional event has a history dating back to 1644. It is a fire festival held in the Atsuki district every year on February 11 (a National Holiday) to pray for plentiful crops and to ward off disasters and illness.
In 2009, it was designated a Nationally-Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property. The festival begins when young people dressed in white, after purifying themselves by washing, raise two approximately 20 meter-high ceremonial poles to the east and west.
After dancing the Shinmei-Odori dance around the poles in the day and night, both poles are set on fire. Then the poles are lowered to the ground, and the festival comes to a close.
Kazanko Dondo
The traditional New Year’s event “Dondo-yaki”, where New Year’s decorations and calligraphy are burned as a prayer for good health and an abundant harvest, is hosted at Fureai-Dokoro 437. +H4:H16
Shiomachi Nabe (Seafood Hot Pot)
Please enjoy this specially-arranged seafood hot pot with famous sea bream and rich local ingredients, cooked in an original soup stock.
As local sea bream grows up in the Obatake-seto Strait, one of three major currents of Japan, its firm texture produces a savory flavour with a strong but sweet taste.
Jinenjo (Japanese wild yam)
Japanese wild yams used to be considered very rare, as they were only harvested in the mountains and not produced in farms. After long years of research and trials, Masada Natural Farm in Yanai City invented a special device named “Clever Pipe”, which enabled growing wild yam for the first time in the world, paving a way for other farmers to grow them. This is why Yanai is now called “the place of origin of wild-yam farming”. The Jinenjo wild yam is also scientifically proven to contain a substance which increases DHEA (Dehydroepiandrosterone), a male hormone which is good for revitalizing, anti-aging and improving hormone balance.
Cha-gayu (rice porridge cooked with roasted tea)
Yanai’s folk recipe. This rice porridge cooked with roasted tea goes well with pickled vegetables. Its refreshing flavor is a long-time favorite of the local people.
Fujiyama Coffee Roasters
Fujiyama Coffee Roasters is a coffee shop exclusively serving specialty coffee, facing onto the Seto Inland Sea in Yanai City, Yamaguchi Prefecture.
“Truly delicious coffee should be a more everyday thing.”
Using roasting to maximize the individual characteristics of coffee beans, grown with the utmost care by farmers who dedicate their lives to coffee production, this store enables customers to easily understand and become familiar with specialty coffee, tailor-made to the ordinary scenes of daily life.
Nogorou 0506 Factory Outlet Store
An original mascot character from Yanai City, Yamaguchi Prefecture.
The black cat “Nogorou” is loved for his ever-so-slightly sneaky eyes.
Visitors to this factory outlet store can meet cats that serve as Nogorou’s models.
Jinenjo Mura (wild yam)
We are an Internet online shop selling Jinenjo(Japanese wild yam) and its products. Please try various products such as Jinenjo Dango Jiru(Japanese soup with Jinenjo dumplings), flavoured Jinenjo Furikake (dried topping for rice), and Jinenjo Doughnuts. We are happy to deliver these products to your home.
