Sukunahikona Shrine Shinno Festival 2026

Essentials

location

Sukunahikona Shrine (Doshomachi)

period

November 22, 2026 (Sun) - November 23, 2026 (Mon)

Time

両日 10:00〜20:00

cost

Free to visit (amulets such as the shinko tiger and food stalls charged individually)

Links

• Official Website

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access

About 5 min walk from Exit 6 of Kitahama Station (Osaka Metro Sakaisuji Line). No dedicated parking is listed; use public transport

There are 12 car parks within a 12-minute walk of Sukunahikona Shrine (Doshomachi). The map shows each with its walking time.

Facility data comes from OpenStreetMap. It does not include opening hours, fees or availability.

NOTE

Shinko (papier-mache tiger)

• An amulet of a papier-mache tiger and a Sukunahikona Shrine talisman hung on a five-leaf bamboo sprig, given for family safety and good health
• Originates from the 1822 cholera outbreak, when the Doshomachi drug merchants made a medicine to ward off disease and handed it out together with the tiger amulet

Around the shrine

• Festival lanterns are hung along Doshomachi-dori and food stalls line the street
• The Doshomachi Pharmaceutical Museum on the shrine grounds shows the history of the medicine district

History

• Enshrines Sukunahikona-no-mikoto (Japan's deity of medicine) and Shennong (China's ancestral deity of medicine)
• Founded in 1780 by the Ise-ko association of drug wholesalers to pray for the safety of medicines and the prosperity of the trade
• The Yakuso-ko rites are designated an Osaka City intangible folk cultural property

*Held on the fixed dates of November 22 and 23 every year

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