What kind of festival are "all Okinawa island Acer Inc. festivals"?

The traditional performing art "Acer Inc." is the Bon dance of Okinawa, and which dances at night of a Lunar bon festival. A male dancer dances heroically according to the light sound of San line and the lyrical song while beating at a drum, and a female dancer shows an elegant dance by the kimono form of the splashed pattern of the knee length (splashed pattern). The opinion to which I say there were various views about beginning and that it was told by a priest of Jodo Sect and a saint in the bag (Would, CHUU, I shouldered, oh.) before more than 400 years. As the important ceremony which pumps an ancestor into kingdom come the last day of a Lunar bon festival from the old days at Okinawa various parts of the prefecture, Acer Inc., the custom which parades in the village was inheriting generation after generation while dancing.

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All Okinawa island Acer Inc. festivals start as "all island Acer Inc. contests" at KOZA city (present Okinawa city KOZA) (in 1956) in 1956. Each young men's association came to devise work and a costume aiming at a contest victory, and female dancing in a sitting posture started to be also added. I become popular as the festival to which the Acer Inc. group selected from Okinawa Hon-jima all part, not a contest announces traditional performance or the performance for which I elaborated ideas at present. A person of more than 300,000 people per 3 days is held by Okinawa city KOZA athletic park athletic stadium on the first weekend after a Lunar bon festival every year, and visits.

A date in 2025 and, an inspection area?

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It's 3 days on Sunday on the 14th a date in 2025 from Friday, September 12.
The "way JUNE" where Acer Inc. group parades a gate street (route 20 of prefectural highway) is held at night in the first day, and 18 groups participate including the fixed performance meeting place established along a gate street. It's also charm that performance, a performance and an expression can be judged by close range again around here in the original form of Acer Inc. that the way is paraded while dancing. The tour is free the route and the fixed performance meeting place.

Middle day moves a meeting place to Okinawa city KOZA athletic park athletic stadium, and Okinawa city youth festival" to which a young men's association in Okinawa city announces Acer Inc. is held. A group in Okinawa various parts of the prefecture assembles and shows splendid performance which works with each other in perfect harmony in the last day. A lawn area around the theater is a free entrance, but middle day and the last day are also prepared by a pay reserved seat in the main stand where the whole meeting place can be looked around.

<2025 "all 70th time Okinawa island Acer Inc. festivals", event schedule>

<The ticket charge>

* Without child fares. But, the inspection on the guardian's knee is free by a elementary students sheep rise.

<Ticket sale destination>
Okinawa city sightseeing product promotion society (the 1st floor of KOZA music town)
Okinawa city KOZA athletic park stadium
FamilyMart e plus (e-plus).

<Contact information about a ticket>
Telephone: 098-989-5566 (Okinawa city sightseeing product promotion society)

Trivia of Acer Inc. which consists of various performers

Though tens of people of men and women make a rank, and Acer Inc. plays San line, it's the general shape that dancers dance around focusing on the "area" where a Okinawa folk song is sung (JI KATA), "chiyou (JI, ignorance)" and "big drum (would, bran DEKU)".
The big drum is charged with the important role of taking the whole lead, acting dynamically while holding a drum. In a drum, besides, there are also "drum used in Kabuki and Noh (SHIME DEKU)" and a drum of the holdings by which leather was stretched only in a one side smaller than a big drum "par orchid Koo", and it's different in the height of the sound respectively. That a drum tends to move to a drum used in Kabuki and Noh lightly, the acrobatic movement to which the whole body is moved big is seen and also called a flower of performance. Par orchid Koo is often used by Acer Inc. of a kids circle because it's more light-weight than a drum used in Kabuki and Noh but Acer Inc. mainly composed of par orchid Koo is transmitted to old Yonashiro-cho and old Katsuren-cho (both, present Uruma city) etc..
The man's handwriting dance to which a dancer announces a powerful dance, "IKIGAMOI" and the woman's hand dance which dances flexibly are called "INAGUMOI". Besides it consists of "then," and the "CHONDARA" etc. which make the "leader" who dances with a flag of height 3-4m and dances (by grouper, SHIRA) and the face facial foundation and liven an audience by a funny dance.

A highlight of a festival and how to enjoy oneself?

There is many how to enjoy oneself Acer Inc., dynamic dance by which the piece of string if singing a highlight with the splendid drumstick sell performers can charm during a big drum and the overlap by which a drum used in Kabuki and Noh and par orchid Koo are rhythmical and powerful sound, which was added to music isn't disordered by far the most. The overwhelming performance is being just seen, and feeling is being uplifted.
The basic group composition is decided, the various formation is made and makes the tradition important by a group in recent years, and it's new, the individuality pursues how to fascinate me, and is also various. There are music and the group which uses a song of Okinawa and pop music as well as a Okinawa folk song, and those difference can also be enjoyed.
The flag a leader puts up again and the performer's costume are also different in the design depending on groups, and I'm seeing and don't get tired.

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"Orion beer faced" is held at a sub-ground which neighbors this meeting place on Saturday, September 13 on Sunday on the 14th, so a bibulous person also recommends beer one hand to visit Acer Inc..

<Orion beer faced 2025 in KOZA>

Saturday, September 13, 2025 and Sunday on the 14th 15:30-21:00
Okinawa city KOZA athletic park sub-ground

A finale is "catcher Sea" and Fireworks Festival.

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"Catcher Sea" starts after the performance of all groups in the last day. The thing by which catcher Sea is the improvised dance which has the meaning to say "It's stirred." by words of Okinawa and dances in a congratulatory seat in Okinawa and the end of a banquet hall. People in all generations raise the both arms highly, use on left and right flexibly and enjoy themselves according to the up tempo sound of San line. Audience as well as performers of each Acer Inc. group join in the ground where a main festival is a theater, too, and, indeed, konzen, in general. After dancing happily, Laser Shaw who used a laser beam and set fireworks and skyrocket fireworks start, and a festival for 3 days meets a finale.

After movement to a meeting place has the plenty of leeway in time.

A traffic jam is expected by only Acer Inc. event which takes pride in its maximum scale by a Okinawa prefecture during a festival period and traffic control is also conducted in the meeting place circumference. Pay Parking (only booking sale) is installed in a meeting place, but for number to be limited, when moving by rent-a-car etc. car, I'll use special Parking and the free shuttle bus installed in the Okinawa city. When it's a public transportation, I'll use local bus, have a plenty of leeway in time and go to the meeting place.

<Traffic control of festival time frame>
The official site is checked for details.

It's scheduled at 17:00-at 22:30 on Friday, September 12.
The town inside street where number 330 of national highways are around the Goya crossroad, KOZAGETO street and the inside

It's scheduled at 20:30-at 22:00 on Sunday on the 14th on Saturday, September 13.
Number 330 of national highway and the ground street where Okinawa city KOZA athletic park athletic stadium is tied

Special Parking can set up 13 and 14 days to 3 points, a Okinawa city office, Okinawa city farmer training center and Awase fishing port in September, and it can be used from 13:30 to 23:00.
A free shuttle bus?
(1) In front of the Okinawa city office
(2) In front of the Okinawa city library
(3) Okinawa city farmer training center
(4) Awase fishing port
(5) AEON Mall Okinawa lie cam
It moves in an interval of about 1 per 20 minutes from 5 points which are so.

The operation time, from each stop, to a meeting place, at 13:30-at 20:00.
It's 14:00-22:30 to each stop from a meeting place.

<Local bus>
The nearest bus stop: Sonoda (It's SON.) gets off. About 10 minutes on foot