• 2025.7.25

[Ota Ward School] Commentary on the August 1, 2025 issue

What is Ota Ward Studies?

Through YouTube and quizzes, you can have fun learning about the depth that exists in a wide range of fields such as Ota City's history, culture, famous places, traditions, and food, which are familiar but unknown to you.
The quiz will be published every month in the 11st issue of Ota Ward News. (January issue only 21/XNUMX combined issue)

　[August 1, 2020 issue issue]

Where is the place where the Lantern Offering Festival takes place every August, where people entrust their wishes to lanterns and offer them in hopes of their wishes coming true?

Answer: Anamori Inari Shrine

[Explanation]

The Anamori Inari Shrine's Lantern Festival is a fantastical and atmospheric event in which about 1,000 lanterns are lined up in the shrine grounds, and is crowded with many worshippers. This year, it will be held on August 8rd (Sat) and 23th (Sun)..