Tottori Shan-Shan Matsuri 2026 | Dates, the Umbrella Dance & Venue (62nd Edition)
Tottori's Guinness-record umbrella dance returns Aug 13–14, 2026 for its 62nd edition — free to watch along the city-center parade route.
When · Where
- When
- 2026/08/13 09:00 – 2026/08/14
- Where
- Central Tottori (Wakasa-kaido – Chizu-kaido – Ekimae-dori)（Tottori City, Tottori Prefecture）
- City
- Across Japan
- Getting there
- About 10 min walk from JR Tottori Station to the Wakasa-kaido / Chizu-kaido city-center route.
- Price
- Free
- Organizer
- Tottori Shan-Shan Matsuri Promotion Association (鳥取しゃんしゃん祭振興会)
Good to know for visitors
- Getting there
- About 10 min walk from JR Tottori Station to the Wakasa-kaido / Chizu-kaido city-center route. Open directions in Google Maps ↗
- Booking & entry
- Free to attend — details on the official page (button above).
- Language
- Mostly in Japanese — a translation app on your phone helps.
- Good for
- culture seekers, families, groups of friends
Highlights
- A 2014 Guinness World Record for the largest simultaneous umbrella dance — 1,688 dancers twirling bell-hung parasols at once
- Aug 14: roughly 100 dance troupes (4,000+ dancers) fill the Wakasa-kaido to Ekimae-dori route for the unified 'Issei Kasa-odori', split into two evening sessions
- 62nd edition in 2026 — one of the San'in region's biggest summer festivals, drawing 200,000+ spectators
Background & story
Born in 1965 out of a merger of Tottori's older Shan-Shan (bell) umbrella dance and the city's summer festival, the parade grew into a Guinness-record-holding spectacle by 2014 and remains San'in's signature summer event.
Good to know
Aug 14's dance blocks split into two sessions (roughly 17:00–18:50 and 19:00–21:00) with a short break — arrive for the second block if you want the biggest crowd energy after dark.