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Setouchi Triennale
๐Ÿ“ Seto Inland Sea Islands, Kagawa โ˜… 4.8

Setouchi Triennale

The Setouchi Triennale is held every three years across three separate seasons โ€” spring (Aprilโ€“May), summer (August), and autumn (Octoberโ€“November) โ€” with different artworks and participating islands in each season. The 2025 edition marks the festival's seventh cycle and features works by over 200 artists across twelve islands and two port cities. The event has become one of Asia's most significant contemporary art gatherings and has revitalised several previously depopulated island communities.

art-festival triennial islands
Kotohiragu Autumn Festival
๐Ÿ“ Kotohira, Kagawa โ˜… 4.6

Kotohiragu Autumn Festival

The Kotohiragu Grand Autumn Festival, held on October 9โ€“11 each year, is one of Shikoku's most spectacular traditional events, featuring a procession of portable shrines (mikoshi), ancient court music and dance (gagaku and bugaku), and a dramatic torchlit procession up the 785 stone steps. The festival celebrates the shrine's patron deity and draws pilgrims and spectators from across the region. The torchlit procession on the evening of October 10 is particularly atmospheric.

festival autumn shrine
Takamatsu Takamatsu Festival
๐Ÿ“ Takamatsu, Kagawa โ˜… 4.6

Takamatsu Takamatsu Festival

Takamatsu's summer festival (late Julyโ€“early August) draws 60,000+ dancers from across Shikoku performing yosakoi and traditional awa-odori through the city's covered arcades and waterfront. The festival coincides with Takamatsu Port's fireworks over the Seto Inland Sea โ€” visible from the city's unique floating convention hall, Sunport Takamatsu's Symbol Tower.

Yosakoi Dance Summer Festival Sanuki
Shodoshima Olive Festival
๐Ÿ“ Shodoshima, Kagawa โ˜… 4.4

Shodoshima Olive Festival

The Shodoshima Olive Festival takes place each October and November during the island's olive harvest season, with pressing demonstrations, farm open days, and markets selling fresh-pressed oil alongside olive-based foods and cosmetics. The festival celebrates the island's century-long olive-growing heritage and offers visitors the chance to participate in hand-picking olives in the grove. The combination of Mediterranean-style scenery, crisp autumn air, and the smell of fresh olive oil makes this one of Kagawa's most distinctive seasonal events.

olive-harvest shodoshima autumn

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