This is just a reminder that Japan’s most bizarre, hilarious festival is coming up soon. This year it will be held on Sunday April 5.
Video of the festival: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SggvPrkoJUI
Shrine homepage: http://tomuraya.co.jp/wakamiya.htm (Japanese only)
2-3-16 Daishi Eki-mae, Misaki-ku, Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture. Inside the grounds of Wakamiya Hachimangu.
To get there, take the Keikyu line from Shinagawa Station. Transfer to the Keikyu-Daishi Line at Keikyu Kawasaki Station and get out at Keikyu-Daishi. It takes about 45 minutes and costs 580 yen. The festival starts at 10:00 AM. The main event, the penis procession starts at 1:00 PM.
There are other posts about the festival here:
http://qjphotos.wordpress.com/?s=kanamara
March 25, 2009 at 10:39 am
i don’t even want to think…..
March 25, 2009 at 1:33 pm
I think you mean Sunday the 5th.
March 25, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Yes, you’re right, it’s the 5th. Thanks!
November 17, 2009 at 4:29 am
This festival is my favorite in Japan. I think every country need to have one.
February 21, 2010 at 2:27 pm
Lovely. Gotta come, er, go.
March 12, 2010 at 1:47 pm
[...] carrying giant penis statues while folks, young and old, suck on penis and vagina shaped candy. Kanamara Matsuri, or Festival of the Steel Phallus, is a Shinto festival that takes place on the first Sunday in [...]
March 30, 2010 at 11:52 pm
I love my penis now, it’s not quite as big as that one in the pictures but it is definitely bigger now.
It’s a litle bit like Mardi Gra isnlt it this festival
May 3, 2010 at 2:52 pm
Thank GOD the Missionaries didn’t wipe this one out !
August 10, 2010 at 10:22 pm
@@ i hope my country got this kind of festival.. hahaha..
August 27, 2010 at 2:29 am
Vagina itself is hideous carrying the statues of that nasty junk as part of festival is a stupidity, it is nasty.
August 27, 2010 at 5:27 pm
Katharine.LOL, I do support you ,as girls I know how ugly a vagina is, so that festival, Vagina festival is hilarious, disgusting.
August 20, 2011 at 3:56 am
[...] carrying giant penis statues while folks, young and old, suck on penis and vagina shaped candy. Kanamara Matsuri, or Festival of the Steel Phallus, is a Shinto festival that takes place on the first Sunday in [...]
April 17, 2012 at 9:14 am
I wonder how much penis and vagina chocolate the man with the SARS mask will sell???