Mt. Daisen Fire Festival (Torchlight Procession) Tours and Travel

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Mt. Daisen Fire Festival (Torchlight Procession)

Experience the River of Fire ritual

Club Tourism tour participants can experience the Mt. Oyama Summer Mt. Daisen Opening Festival (Mt. Daisen Fire Festival and Torchlight Procession), which is held on the first Saturday of Jun. every year. After completing a religious ceremony, 2,000 people carrying sacred fires from the inner shrine of Mt. Daisen Ogamiyama Shrine descend about 1,500 meters to Bakuroza on the mountainside in about an hour. The spectacle is overwhelming, like a river of fire.

Torchlight procession (Image)

The starting point of the torchlight procession is the Ogamiyama Shrine Okumiya. The shrine building is one of the largest in the country, and is a designated important cultural property of Japan.