Every year the Toyama Technology & Manufacturing Center donates to the Owara Kaze-no-Bon and Hikiyama festivals to maintain friendly relations with the community where the center is located and help promote the community.
Owara Kaze-no-Bon is a festival held every year from September 1 to 3 in the town of Yatsuo, located in Toyama City, Toyama. Eleven neighborhoods in the center of Yatsuo participate, each one performing dances to the mournful tune of the folk song “Ecchu Owara Bushi.”
The Hikiyama Festival is held every year on May 3 in Yatsuo. A spring festival of Yatsuo Hachiman Shrine dating back to the middle of the Edo Period (1603 - 1868), it consists of participants moving six lavishly decorated wooden floats through the hilly streets of the town. Crowds gather from all over to see the festival.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the festivals were either cancelled or scaled down from 2020 to 2022, but in 2023 they started accepting tourists again and are gradually returning to normal.
They are the biggest festivals in Toyama Prefecture, and a portion of the donations go to help pass on the prefecture’s traditional culture.
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