About Kurohone New Year Experience Tour

Tobu Top Tours has released a tour of “Kiryu City Kurohone @ New Year Experience”. Held on January 12 (Sunday), it is a content that you can fully enjoy the New Year in the mountain village that you can not usually experience such as giant tying ropes and rice cake making with turtle stone calling for good luck. In the latter half of the tour, you can move to Maebashi to enjoy the experience of harvesting spinach spinach and tasting sake. Please apply hard. Please check the Kiryu’s travel products page for details of the tour!

Kiryu Fashion Week

Kiryu Fashion WeekKiryu Fashion Week “City of Textile” Kiryu’s fashionable week Fabrics of textile with the theme of “Romantic Town” In autumn of Kiryu, many clothing events are held at various places in the city. Events of various genres such as classic car festival, art, traditional crafts, culture, history, music, food etc. are held. On this occasion, please enjoy plenty of autumn’s charm of Kiryu ‘s “cloth city” which is a townscape of saw roofs and modernized heritage buildings. Classic Car Festival in KiryuFamous historic car festival A reviving old car! A major car of the past year gathered at the Kiryu campus of Gunma University’s Faculty of Science and …

Gunma silk heritage

Gunma silk heritage “Silk country” Gunma’s pride heritage Kiryu is well known not only in Japan but also in the world as a town of textile. However, the silk industry needs many peripheral industries including “Sericulture”, “Silk” and “Weaving”. In order to network the buildings, facilities, entertainment etc. related to them to the area promotion, sightseeing, cultural projects etc, network to Gunma prefecture to “Gunma silk heritage” It was registered. Kiryu who was producing silk fabrics since the Nara era has a lot of silk heritage. Akagi type private houseAkagigata Minka In the architectural style in which the center of the front of the roof which is often seen at …

Shirataki Shrine

Shirataki ShrineShirataki jinja A shrine that worships “Shirataki Hime” which conveyed weaving technology to Kiryu It is a shrine that worships “white basin princess” that conveyed the manufacturing technology of silk fabrics to Kiryu long ago. A Kiryu man who worked in Kyoto fell in love with Shirataki Hime. Although it was a difficult love because of the difference in status, the man was admired by showing brilliant poetry and brought White Tati to his hometown. After that, Princess Shirataki told the villagers weaving technology. In the precincts there are huge stones that can hear the sound of the loom, there is a tree of God, and at the annual …

Higirijizo Ennichi

Higirijizo EnnichiHigirijizo Fair “A fun event once a month” to be held on the 24th of every month. Higirijizo Fair is an event held on the 24th of every month. In the past, the master shot the shadow of the giant, which appears every night in a large textile factory. It appeared in the master’s dream at a later date was this Jizo. Jizo tells that he stood every night to protect his house, that people’s faith is light and that there is no house. If you built a house, I said that the wish you prayed on a particular day will surely come true. When the house was built …

Daruma ichi

Daruma ichiDharma doll market Dharma’s vivid red calls happiness “Fumonji” between Kannon yama and the Kiryu River. “Daruma-ichi” which became one of Kiryu’s trademarks for more than 50 years since it was first held is held every third Sunday in January every year. In front of Kannondo at the end of the staircase, the old Dharma doll is burned and in front of the main hall where many stalls stand, there are loud voices for people to sell Dharma doll. Location Fumonji Address 4chome 2274, Kiryu Hishi-machi Due date every third Sunday of January every year Organizer Fumonji Transportation About 10 minutes by car from Kiryu Station on JR Ryomo …

Mikagari Shinji

Mikagari ShinjiSacred Firewood Ceremony Odd festival of fire and drum and shout Kamo shrine located in Kiryu City Hirosawa Town is a shrine that is also posted at the Engishiki (book of 927), but many people are known for the unusual festival to be held at night of Setsubun. When a general sectarian event such as exorcism or bean throwing ends at a shrine, the altar made in the precincts is ignited. The flame becomes strong enough to feel the heat even if it is far away. A believer who took the firewood (Mikagari) with fire gets away from the east and west, and throws it loudly according to the …