Hall’s crabapple Festival will be held on April 13th 2025.

You can see a rural Japanese scenery with terraced rice fields spreading out on gentle slopes in the mountains region of the northern part of Yakage Town.

Kichishoji temple is a Soto Zen temple built in such a idyllic area.

In the temple grounds, the pretty pale pink flower of the Hall’s crabapple blooms in full glory every spring.

So the temple and locals will hold a festival.

Music and children’s kagura dance performances will be held in the temple grounds, and many food stalls line the parking lot, and the local people livening up the festival with warm hospitality.

In addition on the day, Konpiraten shrine which is located on the mountaintop behind Kichishoji temple,will be opened to the public

So you can see amazing painted ceiling that is usually not open to the public.

A dragon and many animals and plants and so on are painted on the ceiling.

The ceiling is said to be a work from the mid-Edo period.

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Date　-13th April,2025 10:00～14:00

Event -Free distribution is Amazake (a fermented rice drink) [from around 11:00] and Yakage Honjin Band, Karaoke, Chorus, Children’s Kagura

Stall　-Yakitori, yakisoba, french fries, salt-grilled mountain trout, mugwort rice cakes, kitsune sushi, frankfurters, cotton candy and etc.