Obatake Niwaka Festival

At this lively festival, portable shrines to a male deity and a female deity are paraded around the town swaying wildly from left to right, and plunged vigorously into the sea from the beach in the evening, when the tide is at full height. The festival is a prayer for abundant fishing hauls, and is said to be one of Western Japan’s strangest festivals. (*The festival may not be held some years. Cancelled in 2024.)