Fee:4,000yen(for driver,gasoline,parking cost. If you want to go to Kashima and return by trains,you have to pay about 6000,also,it will take six hours to get there and back. )
Plan 7:40 am. Join the Tsukuba Center Bus Terminal unreserved seats...FCFS If you will be late than other people,you have to use an auxiliary seat. 8:00 am. Leave Tsukuba center 9:30am.-4:30 pm. See the Grand Imperial Mifune Festival About4:30pm,leave Kashima. Rain or Shine! If you can DEFINITELY join the event,please e-mailing us ASAP by this Wednesday,Aug 27th. Please hurry as we only have a limited number of the seats. FCFS!
E-mail: tsukuba.international.exchange@gmail.com Title:Kashima Jingu Body:.Your name If you will join us first time 1.Your nationalities 2. a) e-mail address b) mobile phone number, c) LINE ID 3. Do you spead Japanese?...Y/N
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You can cancel without paying any cancellation fee until 3 days before the reservation date(Saturday,Aug 30th). Cancellations without prior notice will incur cancellation fee of 100 percent.
Attention... We need to be on time! If you will be late, you MUST contact us or you will be left behind. You will be responsible for paying any additional charges that are incurred due to adding extra time to the microbus rental in order to wait for you.
About the Grand Imperial Mifune Festival... http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashima_Shrine http://www.kashimajingu.jp/wp/904.html http://wasshoi.gooside.com/ohunematuri.htm This special festival held once every 12 years in the Year of the Horse is to honour the great deities Takemikazuchi (武甕槌大神 Takemikazuchi-no-Ōkami) of Kashima Shrine and Futsunushi (経津主神 Futsunushi-no-kami) of Katori Shrine. The festival is one of great pride for the people in the areas of Kashima and Katori and said to be one of the biggest in Japan.
The festival began during the time of Emperor Ōjin (応神天皇 Ōjin-tenno) although it was stopped once during the civil warring of the Muromachi period (室町時代 Muromachi-jidai). In 1870, the third year of the Meiji period (明治時代 Meiji-jidai), the tradition of the festival was revived and given grand imperial status. In 1887 it was decided that the festival would be held every 12 years in the Year of the Horse.
Today the Grand Imperial Mifune festival begins in the morning on the first of September and officials from the imperial court are sent to convey the blessings of the Emperor. In the early morning of the second day a Mikoshi (神輿 or 御輿) from Kashima Shrine is carried overland along the edge of Lake Kitaura (北浦), a smaller part of Lake Kasumigaura (霞ヶ浦), to a large boat waiting in the harbor. The boat, adorned with a great Ryūtō (龍頭) dragon motif, then joins a larger fleet of other colourful boats (in 2002 there were around 90) and carries the Mikoshi across the lake to the other side. From there a divine procession awaits to take the Mikoshi to Katori Shrine (香取神宮 Katori Jingū) where the main festival takes place. After the festival a special temporary logging known as an Angu (行宮) is constructed and the Mikoshi is taken there before being returned to its main shrine in the afternoon of the third day.