DECEMBER --- EVENT GUIDE ---
Date, Location, Description
- 12/5 - 12/9
- Ae no Koto
- あえのこと
- Throughout the Noto Peninsula;
- Yanagida Botanical Garden & Noto-Machi
- 柳田村、奥能登各地、能登町
- Ceremonies which express a year's gratitude to the gods of the rice fields. The gods are invited into the farmers' homes where they stay until 12/9. A feast is laid out and the dishes are explained one by one to the gods who are believed to be blind.
- 12/12-13
- U-Matsuri
- 鵜祭り
- Uura-machi, Nanao-shi
- 七尾市、鵜浦町
- A cormorant (large sea bird) is captured and presented to Hakui's Keta Shrine for its UMatsuri.
- Mid-December
- Monzen Winter Soba
- 冬こそ門前「そばの市」
- Sogo Undo Park, Monzen-Machi
- 総持寺通り、門前町総合運動公園
- Tent fair featuring the Zen Monzen-machi's traditional cultural food 「Monzen Soba」as the main attraction.
- 12/16
- U-Matsuri
- 鵜祭
- Keta Shrine, Hakui-shi
- 気多大社、羽咋市
- The cormorant from Nanao is used in a ceremony during the middle of the night in order to divine prospects for the next year's rice and fish yields.
- 12/25
- Christmas Opening Ceremony
- クリスマスオープニン グセレモニー
- Seimoa Ski Grounds, Kawauchi-mura
- セイモアスキー場、河内村
- Come and enjoy skiing, live music, and many other events as Seimoa kicks off the ski season.
- 12/31
- Onsen Gratitude Festival
- 温泉感謝祭
- Kiku no Yu, Yamanaka-machi
- 山中町「菊の湯 」
- In gratitude for a year's livelihood and with supplications for the coming year, the people who make their living from the hot springs open them to the public for free.
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