It looks like the “Koshien Festival” will be held at Susanoo Shrine in Koshien on Saturday, October 18.
Here ↓
There will be food stalls and plenty of stage performances too〜
Koshien Festival
When is it?
- Saturday, October 18 and Sunday, October 19, 2025, 12:00–18:00
- Held rain or shine
Where is it?
- Susanoo Shrine (Nishinomiya / Koshien area)
Here it is on the map ↓
The address is 2-40 Koshiencho, Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture.
What’s happening?
- 10/18 (Sat)
- Naruo High School Light Music Club live performance 🎸
- Irohana Utatta (a cappella) 🎤
- Kalei Ola Ulea (hula) 🌺
- Kashiwade Clapping Contest 🏆
- Hipopo Folk Guerrilla 🎸
- Monsoon (manzai comedy) 😂
- Dragon Dance (Shin’ei Ryujinkai) 🐉
- 10/19 (Sun)
- Toyoko Iwai with Akiko Suzuki (dance) 💃
- BON. Inoue 🎤
- KPD Saxophone Band 🎷
- Street name announcement 📣
- Kwansei Gakuin University Kabutoyama Rakugo Study Group (rakugo) 😂
- Rice Bale Carrying Contest 🏆
- Katsura Wakaba (rakugo) 😂
- Japanese taiko drums (Team Kobe) 🥁
- Both days
- Various food stalls (takoyaki, yakisoba, fried chicken, frankfurters, draft beer, juice, senbonbiki lottery, shooting gallery, and more) 🍢
Other Notes
- Stage performances and vendor details may change
- No bicycle parking available (please refrain from coming by bicycle)
Finally
The clapping contest sounds like a fun, hands-on event you don’t hear about very often elsewhere. They’ll also be holding a rice bale carrying contest, and the winner gets a 60 kg rice bale! So nice〜. Also, the street name they had been accepting suggestions for will be revealed on this day〜
