Winter Event
Sado Kaifu Winter Yellowtail Bumper Catch Festival
- Time of Event
- Early December
- Venue
- Ryotsu
An event in which you can fully enjoy one of Sado's winter delicacies "winter yellowtail." The oily winter yellowtail is exeptionally delicious when it is in season! There are aslo a great many fun attractions such as dishes of fresh winter yellowtail and direct sales of the freshily caught fish .
Setchu Toshikoshi Mikoshi (New Year's Eve's portable shrine carrying in the snow)
- Time of Event
- December 31
- Venue
- Hatano
An event which started in 2006. It is an event in which the local people carry a mikoshi (a portable shrine which is believed to quiet spirits temporarily) and welcome the New Year, wishing for good luck. They make one round trip each on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. Oshiruko (sweet red-bean soup with rice-cake) is served.
Do-oshi
- Time of Event
- Early January
- Venue
- Ryotsu
Literally, "Do-oshi" means "body-pushing." This is a traditional event held in the Tsukifuse district. It is a valiant festival in which young men hold up a man at yakudoshi high in the air and parade in the shrine of the god of treasure in Tsukifuse. (A man's "yakudoshi" is the age of 42 at which many evils are believed to fall upon him.)
Kobie Jinja Taasobi Shinji (Kobie Shrine's Shinto ritual of "playing" in the rice field)
- Time of Event
- Early February
- Venue
- Ogi
A divine performance in which the local people celebrate in advance in the hall of worship of Kobie Shrine, praying for a good harvest in fall. They perform a mock play which depicts a year of work in a rice field from rice-planting in spring to harvesting in fall.
Lake Kamoko Oyster Festival
- Time of Event
- February
- Venue
- Ryotsu
A day when you can savor a variety of oyster dishes to your heart's content―doteyaki (oysters grilled on charcoal fire), oyster soup, and so on and so forth.