We will display traditional art pieces of Toyama in a cathedral (Takaoka copper utensils, Takaoka lacquer ware, Inami sculpture, Shou River turnery bare wood, Ecchu Japanese Paper). At the Craftsman's demonstration and the production experience corner, you may also choose the designs of Tonaga-Kun (charged a fee).

• Date: Friday, July 3 to Sunday, July 5
• Time: 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM, with an exception of the 5th which is until 4PM

Location/ Contact Information: Toyama Folk Craft Person's Society (in the Takaoka local industry center) TEL 25 - 8283.

• Date: Sunday, July 12/ July 26 From 5:30 AM to 7:30 AM
• Location: Jyokamachi Street
• Items Being Sold: Green Fruit, Salted Dry Fish, Seedling, Flowers, Handicrafts, Recycled Product, etc.
  
  ※Municipal Management Otabi Shop's parking lot is free of charge from 5:00 AM to 8:00 AM

Contact Information: Takaoka Morning Market Executive Committee Secretariat TEL 090 - 6811 - 3137 (From 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Closed on Wednesdays), Civic Collaboration Section TEL 20 - 1522

Saturday, August 1 - Friday, August 7
◆Tanabata/ Andon Lights…6:30 PM to 11:00 PM (Until 8:00PM on the 7th)

○1st - 7th
◆Reception for Jumbo Tanabata "Negai Tanzaku (Wish List)"…JR Takaoka Station etc.
◆Yatai Village…Manyo Forest
◆Live & Beer Garden…Wing/ Wing Takaoka

○From August 1st, 6:00 PM Opening/ Vehicle-Free Promenade
◆Compositions & Andon Commendations/ Samba/ JAZZ LIVE…Manyo Forest
◆ Old Times Car Festival (About 30 antique car displays of the good old Showa Era)/ Tanabata
◆Parade…Suehirocho
◆From August 2nd, 6:00PM Vehicle-Free Promenade
◆Street Basketball/ Folk Dance Parade…Suehirocho
◆Takamachi Dance×3…Suehirozaka
◆Shouting Contest…Manyo Forest
◆The Flamenco of the Starlit Sky…Wing/Wing Takaoka

○From August 5th, 6:00 PM
◆Kikare ~ Ma 2009…Manyo Forest

○From August 6th, 6:00 PM
◆Folksong Singing Contest…Manyo Forest

○From August 5th, 6:00 PM Final Stage
◆Baton Twirling/ Firefighting Musical Band Performance, etc.
◆Hawaiian Night…Wing/Wing Takaoka

Price: \1000 per Puchi-Tanabata

■For any cases, the application is due on Friday, July 24. Please turn it in to the Takaoka Tanabata Festival Executive Committee

※There may be cancellations and a change of plans due to the weather.

Contact Information: Takaoka Tanabata Festival Executive Committee (Inside the Takaoka Machishu Salon) TEL 20 - 0555, Commercial Sightseeing Section TEL 20 - 1289.

• Date: Friday, July 3 to Tuesday, July 7
• Location: Takaoka City Business Industry Society, Toide Branch, etc.

July 3 Gardening Class…2:00 PM/ Free Distribution of Chrysanthemum Seedlings…3:30 PM/ Yosakoi Tode…5:30 PM/ Chin-Don Parade…6:00 PM (Tanabata Street)

July 4 Preschooler's Folk Dance…6:30 PM/ Let's Play with Toshinaga-Kun…5:00 PM (Tanabata Street)/ A talk show with the former athlete from the famous baseball team, Yomiuri Giants…6:30 PM/ Samba…6:30 PM (Tanabata Street - Business and Industry Hall)/ Live in Toride…7:00 PM/ Songs and Ballads Performance…7:30 PM/ Children's Club's Andon Parade…7:00 PM (Western Toide Elementary School - Large Parking Garage)/ Belly Dance 8:30 PM.

July 5 Tanabata Contest & Commendation Ceremony…4:00 PM/ Toide Jr. High School Brass Band Performance, Shamei Parade…5:30 PM (Western Toide Elementary School - Large Parking Garage/ Southern Takaoka High School Brass Band Performance...5:00 PM/ New Tanabata Street, Hananokai Dance…6:00 PM (Business and Industry Hall, etc)/ Tsugaru Shamisen…6:30PM/ Karaoke…7:30 PM

July 6 Recycle Market…3:00 PM/Folk Dance Parade…7:00 PM (Western Toide Elementary School - Large Parking Garage).

Contact Information: Toide Tanabata Festival Executive Committee (Takaoka City Business and Industry Toide Branch) TEL 63 - 0792, Commercial Sightseeing Section TEL 20 - 1301

Registration/ Contact Information: Commercial Sightseeing Section (〒933 - 8601 Takaoka City Hirokouji 7 - 50)

◆Exhibition
○Eco - Friendly Action Exhibition

• Dates: Friday, July 3 to Monday, July 13


• Details: We will introduce a simple and eco-friendly activity that everyone will be able to do unconsciously.

○Mobile Phones

• Dates: Saturday, July 18 to Tuesday, July 28


• Details: A volunteer from the Toyama University Art/Culture Department fantasizes a strange and mysterious world of mobile phones.

■For any cases, the viewing fee will be free of charge.

• Opening Time: 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM
• Closure Day: Thursday

Contact Information: Underground Arts and Literature Gallery TEL 25 - 6078, Commercial Sightseeing Section TEL 20 - 1289

◇Morning Market

Date: Every Sunday in July 7:30

Items Being Sold: Fresh Vegetables, Crop Processed Goods, and Flower Arrangements, Chicken Eggs etc.

◇The place for direct sale prices for Farm Products, "City of Uncountable Fresh Summer Vegetables"

Date: Saturday, July 18 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM

Items Being Sold: Local Fresh Vegetables, etc.

During Summer Break, we will also simultaneously be opening the, "Children and Animals" You will be able to pet calves, goats, etc. , and event play with takeuma (bamboo stilts)

• Sunday, August 2 from 2:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Location: Fukuokamachi Tsuchiya Shinsui Park (Oyabegawa Sagan) Afternoon Events…Carp Grabbing Tournament (Participation Fee = \100), Goldfish Grabbing Tournament, Healthy Sun Tanning Contest, etc.
• Evening Events…Hiyaa Sun Kasa Dance, Water Performance, Fireworks, etc.

• Date: Sunday, July 5 from 9:30 AM
• Location: Amaharashi/ Matsudaehama Beach

◇August 1
・A parade for the 110th Anniversary of the port…10:00 AM (in front of Fushiki Station - in front of the Fushiki Port Office)

◇August 2
・The 110th Anniversary Ceremony…10:00 AM (at the field in front of Fushiki Port office)
・Fushiki Manyo Ohashi Opening Ceremony…11:00 AM
・Reception…12:30 PM
・Display of Mt. Chouchin/ Kaccha Demonstration, Mountain/ Pike Summit Inspection…7:00 PM (in front of the office of Fushiki Port)
◆Machinaka Nigiwai Jigyo (Business Inside the Crowded Town)
・A concert at downtown which is decorated with andon lamps…Saturday, July 25 and Saturday, August 1 (Minatomachi Street)
・An exchange with Russia…Wednesday, August 5 (Fushiki Port Left Bank Quay)
◆The End of the service of the Ferry Boat (Nyoino Watashi) The traveling fee is free on the last day of this service (Sunday, August 2)
◆110th Anniversary Photography Contest…Please send applications to the Fushiki Sightseeing Promotion Center via mail by Saturday, August 22.

◇Augest 2/ August 3
・Charity Handcraft Festival …3:00 PM to 9:00 PM
・Katakago Lily Handcrafting Group's Shop…6:00 PM to 9:30 PM
・The Night Stall…6:00 PM to 10:30 PM

◇August 2
・Praying Festival for the Marines Safety…8:30 AM (Konpira Shrine)
・The Port and Bow Festival…2:00 PM (The neighborhood of the Oyabegawa Ferry Anchorage)
・Cooling Bench/ Shogi Gathering…6:00 PM
・A LIVE in FUSHIKI…6:30 PM
・Nouryo Firework Contest...8:20 PM (Fushiki Manyo Wharf)

◇August 3
・Fushiki Hobashira Okoshi Celebration Song Parade…7:00 PM (The street in front of the Fushiki Welfare Hall)
・Folk Dance/ Dancing Contest…8:00 PM
・Fushiki Sumo Fans' Society's 20th Anniversary (Sumo Wrestler's Ceremonial Entrance into the Ring)…7:30 PM (Konpira Shrine)
・Yuichi (The Evening City)…7:00 PM to 10:30 PM

◇Boat Race Tournament…August 2 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM (Area Around the Oyabegawa Jyoukouji Bridge - Nyoino Watashi)

◇General Release of the Marine Safety Department Patrol Boat/ A Voyage Experience

• Location: Left Bank of the Fushiki Port Sagan


• General Opening (A Tour of the Ship): August 1 and 2 (from 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM) and on August 3 (from 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM)


• A Voyage Experience: Sunday, August 2 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM


• Signup Deadline: Friday, July 17. Please contact Fushiki Port Festival Executive Committee (〒933 - 0103 Takaoka City Fushiki Chuuouchou 6 - 1)

◇Marine Self-Defense Force War Vessel General Opening/

• A Voyage Experience: August 1 and 2 from 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM


• Signup Deadline: Friday, July 17. Please contact the Toyama Self-Defense Force Cooperation Headquarters (〒930 - 0856 Toyama City Ushijima Shinmachi 6 - 24).
  
  

※For those interested in the voyage, please write and send a double sided postal card with your name, address, and telephone number written on it. Furthermore on the "replying side" of the card, please write your postal number, address, and name. Note that this application is one per person. On top of that, there will be a drawing if there are many applicants. However, the embarkation is possible with two people on one post card.

• Dates: Saturday, July 25 to Sunday August 2
• Location: Takaoka Techno-Dome, etc.
• Entrance Fee: Adult \500 (\350 for and early purchase), Children \300 (\200 for an early purchase)

One will be able to feel the change in Takaoka's copper utensils from the records of the letters which were engraved on these historical gifts.

◇Modern Version "Heisei no Rinji" Message Ceremony

• Date: Saturday, July 25 11:00 AM
  
• Location: Ariso Shrine
  

◇Smelting Metal with the Tatara Furnace
The casting of a Japanese catfish tail kabuto (a Japanese head armor)

• Date: Sunday July 26 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  
• Location: Kanaya Ryokuchi Park

From the beginning to the opening of the Toide Field, we will introduce the history of Toide. There is a gallery when someone opens the Otaya Gate.

• Dates: Friday, July 10 - Thursday, July 16 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM.
  
• Location: EianTemple, Otaya Gate
  
• Entrance Fee: Free of Charge

While thinking about Takaoka 400 years ago, we enjoy ourselves by wearing yukatas and watching various fashion shows and concerts.

• Date: Saturday, July 11 10:00 AM - 3:30 PM (The Salon Concert is from 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM)
  
• Location: Civic Center, etc.
  
• Entrance Fee: \2,500 (Lunch charges, etc. We will collect money the day of the event. Please bring your yukata and obi. The dressing of the yukata is free of charge.)
  

We will create a 2.4m x 4.5m model and converse about what Takaoka will be like in 50 years. The people from the Architect Society, Toyama University, and Takaoka Industrial Arts High School are also cooperating in this event.

Dates:
◇The display of the city model/ From Friday, July 31 to Saturday, August 1
◇Workshop/ From Sunday August 2 1:00 PM
Location: Wing/ Wing Takaoka
Entrance Fee: Free of Charge