Enoshima Tenno Festival

Held over several days every July, the Enoshima Tenno Festival culminates in the shinkosai – a procession in which an enshrined deity is carried across the open ocean on a mikoshi float from Enoshima island to Koshigoe Beach on the mainland. Once the mikoshi reaches land, it clashes with a similar float from Kodo Shrine, waiting on the opposite shore. Associated with the Shinto ritual of warding off summer plagues and disasters, the impressive face-off between the two portable shrines is a quintessential early summer sight in the Shonan area.