（End）【Notice: Event Information of Tsurumi Ward】 4/29 (Sunday)
“TAMATSURI ” (Paddy Fields Festival) at Tsurumi Shrine
Tsurumi Shrine has a festival called ” TAMATSURI “on the 29th of April. This festival is to pray to God for a good harvest in rice fields and other crops fields. ” TAMATSURI “is a very old festival. Once it has gone more than 100 years ago. However, it resumed in 1987 by the efforts of Tsurumi people and is a very unique festival. In this festival, we sing songs to pray for good harvest of rice. You can see the Omikoshi (portable shrine) as well.
April 29 (Sunday) 12: 00-19: 00
Tsurumi Shrine (1-14-1 Tsurumi-ku Chuuou Tsurumi-ku, 5 minutes walking distance from East Exit of JR Tsurumi Station)
Schedule of Festival
12：00 Refreshment stalls（A lot of small food and drink stalls will be set up at Tsurumi Shrine）
13：00 Singing and Dancing performance by Elementary school and Junior high school students.
16：30 ”Tamatsuri ” (Fields Festival) celebration (praying to God for harvesting a lot of rice and so on.) 17：30 Omikoshi (portable shrine)
18：00 ”Tamatsuri: Kamihogiuta” (Singing songs for God.)
＊Other than this, There are also various events at the east exit of Tsurumi station.
