Samurai Shooting event of Kamigamo Shrine

I inform Samurai Shooting event is held in Kamigamo Shrine.


There are usually parking lots of about 170 cars, but please go by bus, or subway.
To go to Kamigamo Shrine, by getting off a bus in front of Kamigamo shrine station and 5-minute walk, or getting off a subway at Kitayama Station and 15-minute walk to the north.

Samurai Shooting event of Kamigamo Shrine is carried out by every year on January 16.
Start time is 10:30.
You can see it free.

This event is started after Shinto ritual.
A archer does not ride a horse and touch a foot in the ground and shoot the mark.





The archers shoot an arrow to the mark written with orge.


Several people shoot an arrow in turn.
There is a woman, too.




At archer shooting area, please to be quiet. For keeping an archer do mind unification.

I recommend to arrive at Kamigamo Shrine one hour before festival start, for keeping the viewing place.

that’s it