[Kyoto] Shimogamo Shrine's foot bathing ritual purifies the body and mind in summer in Kyoto. Seek blessings and coolness.

The event we will introduce this time is... [Mitarai Festival] (Shimogamo Shrine)

Address: 59 Shimogamo Izumikawa-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture

Date: July 18th (Fri) to July 27th (Sun), 2025

Time: 9:00-20:00

Price: 500 yen

Nearest station: 10 minutes walk from Keihan "Demachiyanagi Station" Age range: A wide range of people from families to couples to friends

Recommended time: Evening to sunset (weekdays are relatively calm, cool, and photogenic ◎)

︎︎︎︎☑︎What kind of event is it?

Mitarai Festival, a summer tradition in Kyoto, is a festival held for five days before and after Doyo no Ushi no Hi. It is said that if you offer a fee for a candle and then dip your feet in the Mitarai Pond, it will cleanse you of sins and impurities and cure you of epidemics.
It feels good to dip your feet in the cool spring water in the hot Kyoto summer.
The process of lighting candles with wishes and offering them to the shrine grounds is also fantastic.
At the end, you can purify your body from the inside by drinking the sacred water 🌿
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︎︎︎︎☑︎Recommended points & impressions
The atmosphere is lively during the day, and from dusk onwards the candles light up the place and it becomes a fantastic space.
Many people visit in yukata, and this event is becoming more and more popular on social media every year.
It is also recommended to enjoy fortune-telling slips such as water fortune-telling slips in the shrine grounds and to taste mitarashi dango.
The cool and cold way of enjoying Kyoto, which is only available at this time of year, should gently soothe your travel fatigue and summer fatigue.
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