Inuyama Festival & Inuyama Artifacts Museum
犬山祭・犬山市文化史料館
Displays of the Inuyama Festival's floats and mechanical puppets. The festival is on UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage list, and its spirit can be experienced year-round.
The Inuyama Festival is the spring festival of Haritsuna Shrine. Thirteen three-story festival floats carry mechanical puppets through the castle town's streets, and at night each float is hung with about 365 lanterns. It is inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list as “Yama, Hoko and Yatai Festivals.” Outside festival time, you can visit the Inuyama City Cultural History Museum in the castle town, which includes a mechanical puppet hall, to see puppet performances and historical materials about Inuyama Castle. Nearby, the Dondenkan displays four festival floats at full scale. Entry is about 100 yen, and the museums are open roughly 9:00 to 17:00.
Opening hours
About 09:00–17:00
Nearby sights
- Sanko Inari Shrine
- Haritsuna Shrine
- Inuyama Castle
- Uraku-en Garden & Jo-an Teahouse
- Kiso River Cormorant Fishing
- Inuyama Naritasan Temple
- Japan Monkey Centre
- Jakko-in Temple