Mieku Matsuri

The Mieku matsuri is a very small festival. But it’s just down the road from my place so decided to go and have a peek. The festival is already 800 years old and is in remembrance of Kobo Daishi, the spiritual leader and founder of the Shingon school of Buddhism. There wasn’t really much interesting going on at the festival. It’s mostly a lot of ceremonial things, like moving nicely presented food around and doing a lot of recitations and mantras. So after an hour or so i decided to leave and get some other errands done.

Transport: Take the Nankai Koya Line to Kawachinagano Station (about half an hour by express from Osaka) and then take the Komyoike line bus in direction of the Cycle Sports Center.

Website: The website of the Amanosan Kongo-Ji temple has more info about the festival (all in Japanese).