Fuji-san's Plant Market

event date:
Saturday, May 27th, 2023 Sunday, May 28th, 2023
Saturday, June 24th, 2023 Sunday, June 25th, 2023

Venue:
〒111-0032
5-3-2 Asakusa, Taito-ku, Tokyo
Access to the area around Sengen Shrine
・About 10 minutes walk from Asakusa Station
・2 minutes walk from Toei Bus Asakusa 4-chome
・16 minutes walk from Sumida Ward Office on the Tokyo Waterfront Line
13 minutes walk from Sensoji Temple Nitenmon Gate
・14 minutes walk from Tokyo Sightseeing Ferry Asakusa Terminal

The Ofuji-san Plant Market, a traditional summer event that has continued for 400 years in the Asakusa Kannon area, is said to have originated from the festival day of Asakusa Sengen Shrine.Originally, the holidays were on the last day of May and the first day of June, but with the calendar reform in 1872, the opening day to climbing Mount Fuji was changed to July 1st, and today it is held on the last Saturday and Sunday of May and June every year.Asakusa Sengen Shrine and the surrounding roads are lined with a variety of vendors, including plant sellers, and as it is the start of the rainy season, a good time for transplanting trees, the plants purchased here gained a reputation for taking root well, and the market gradually became large and came to be known as "Ofuji-san's Plant Market."At the current plant fair, the main venue, Yanagi-dori Street, is turned into a pedestrian precinct lined with plant dealers.At night, the "Matagi lanterns" are lit up, giving you a taste of the Edo period.Led by the Asakusa Kannonura Promotion Association, we hope to pass on the Ofujisan Plant Market to the next generation in its traditional, lively form.

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