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Todoroki Autumn Festival Sunday, Nov.
In this event, the mikoshi (portable shrine) runs down the steep stone steps just outside the shrine and enters the waterfall basin with its bearers to pray for health, safety, and peace.
Men wrapped in white clothing quickly descend 140 steep stone stairs from the Todoroki Shrine while carrying a mikoshi portable shrine.
They pass through the Dragon Goddess Temple grounds towards the waterfall before climbing over boulders against the flow of the river to enter the waterfall basin.
Event schedule
- Date
- Sunday, November 8, 2026
- place
- Hirai Karedani, Kaiyo-cho, Kaifu-gun, Tokushima Prefecture
Detail
We will post more details as they become available.
- Prayers
- Dragon God Dance Dedication
- Shinto ritual
- The "Abaremikoshi" departs from Todoroki Shrine
- Entering the waterfall
Event information
- Address
- Kareidani, Hirai, Kaiyo-cho, Kaifu-gun, Tokushima
- Contact
- 0884 – 75 – 2216 (Todoroki Shrine)
- Access
- By Car – Approximately 3 hours from the Tokushima Toll Road via Route 11 Route 55 Route 193
By Transit – From JR Awa Kainan Station, take the town bus (Hirai Line) and alight at Todoroki Shine. (Not available on the New Year’s three-day holiday.)
