Japan Phallus Festival 2025. Held the first sunday in april at kawasaki's kanayama shrine, kanamara matsuri is a festival born out of the wish for a world without discrimination. Kanamara matsuri is a yearly shinto festival dedicated to fertility, held in kanayama shrine in kawasaki, a city located between tokyo and yokohama.

With all the strangeness and irony of this,. The kanamara matsuri is a festival centered around a steel phallus that is paraded in a mikoshi.