Yokote Kamakura Making Experience

The Kamakura Festival in Yokote City is a traditional event with a history of over 450 years, where you can experience making kamakura—snow shrines enshrining the water deity. Learning how to make them from a local guide, adults and children alike can become absorbed in the work of compacting the snow and hollowing out the interior. Enjoying sweet sake and rice cakes inside the completed kamakura is a winter luxury like no other. In the evening, you can also enjoy the fantastical sight of mini kamakura glowing with flickering candlelight.