EXPLORE OISO


 Enjoy Oiso Sagicho, a grand fire festival
on January 12, 2025 (Sunday)

 



Meeting time & place

At 3:00 p.m. JR Oiso station (JR Tokaido line 64min from Tokyo

                                                                     36min from Yokohama)

   walking tour of nine small shrines

   engrave name on wooden tag and dinner

   see Sagicho

   7:30 p.m. Disperse at JR Oiso station     

 

Enjoy Sagicho, a traditional Japanese event

handed down in Oiso for 400 years!

Spectacular fire festival with nine decorated bamboo poles (seeto) burns simultaneously!

Remarkable points at this tour

1)Worship nine small shrines (Nanatoko Mairi) (3km/1.5 hours)
Local people go and pray at all Seinokamisan (Shinto deities) before Sagicho
praying for safety of the family and a state of perfect health.
Appreciate same experience!
2)Experience of engraving your name on wooden tag

Try to engrave you name on wooden tag by a soldering iron.


3)  Sagicho

Enjoy a grand fire festival.

You can appreciate a grilled rice cake by broiling with a bamboo pole if you like.

・Date:  January 12th, 2025 (Saturday)

・Meeting time & place: At 3:00 p.m.,  JR Oiso Station

・Participant

Foreign persons which can understand English,  Japanese companion      

・Fee: 1000 yen/person  (Pay on the day in cash.)

*Includes insurance and a wooden tag for engraving your name. 

Excludes transportation fee between Oiso and your destination and dinner

・Time Schedule:

3:00 p.m. JR Oiso station -> walking tour of nine small shrines

4:30 p.m.  @Tokoin shrine -> engrave your name on wooden tag and dinner (*)

6;10 p.m.  @Kitahama beach -> see Sagicho

7:30 p.m.   Disperse @JR Oiso station

- Access to Oiso station...

By train Only JR Tokaido line reach to Oiso station. 

ONLY Local trains stop,  NO rapid or express trains stop.  

64min. from Tokyo St. 36min. from Yokohama St. 52min. from Atami St.

 ・time limit for application:  January 5th, 2025  (Sunday)  

Remarks)

*Please purchase your dinner including alcoholic beverages at a nearby convenience store .

*If we decide to call off this tour, because of the rain,

we post our decision on our website at noon on January 12.