Snow and winter · Tohoku
Yokote Kamakura Festival
横手の雪まつり（かまくら）
About 100 kamakura snow huts are built across central Yokote for a New Year custom with a history of about 450 years.
Confirmed dates
- Dates
- Fri 12 to Sat 13 Feb 2027
- Date status
- Confirmed by the organiser or an official tourism source
- Venue
- Central Yokote, including in front of Yokote City Hall, Haguro-cho, Futaba-cho and Yokote Park
- City
- Yokote
- Prefecture
- Akita
- Region
- Tohoku
- Category
- Snow and winter
- When it runs
- Second Friday and Saturday of February (rule adopted from 2026)
- Checked
- Fri 23 Oct 2026 against the official source
About this event
Yokote City and its tourism association announced in July 2025 that from 2026 the kamakura move to the second Friday and Saturday of February under a trial running to 2029, replacing the fixed 15 and 16 February dates that older guides still cite; in 2027 those days are Friday 12 and Saturday 13 February, with the kamakura open in the evening from 18:00 to 21:00. Inside the huts, children serve amazake and rice cakes beside an altar to the water deity, and thousands of miniature kamakura are lit along the Janosaki riverbed. The separate Bonten events stay fixed on 16 and 17 February and are not part of these dates.
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.city.yokote.lg.jp/kanko/1001533/1006604/1006611.html. Dates checked Fri 23 Oct 2026.