Festivals · Chubu
Katsuyama Sagicho Festival
勝山左義長まつり
A 300-year-old late-winter fire festival of tower stages, comic drumming and a mass bonfire on the Kuzuryu River.
Expected window
- Dates
- Sat 20 to Sun 21 Feb 2027
- Date status
- Expected window, from the previous edition or tradition. Not yet confirmed.
- Venue
- Central Katsuyama, Fukui
- City
- Katsuyama
- Prefecture
- Fukui
- Region
- Chubu
- Category
- Festivals
- When it runs
- Late February weekend; the official rule text and the actual listings disagree, so mirror the previous edition
- Checked
- Fri 23 Oct 2026 against the official source
About this event
Fukui's official travel guide describes the Katsuyama Sagicho as a February festival of over 300 years' standing: twelve yagura towers rise around town for music and the comic ukidaiko drumming, and on Sunday night sacred fire from Shinmei Shrine lights the dondo-yaki bonfires by the Kuzuryu River. The 2026 edition ran on 21 and 22 February; the 2027 weekend is expected to fall on 20 and 21 February and is not yet announced.
Booking
Booked around the event: hotels, passes, transfers and eSIM. Booking links for this event are added after the product checks pass.
Official source: https://www.fuku-e.com/en/festivals-the-soul-of-fukui. Dates checked Fri 23 Oct 2026.