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From this year's giant character drawn in candlelight to the food stalls, restrooms and bus stops, here is your guide to the venue. The event-day map is on this page.
Event-day Map
This is the event-day map, together with the programme and the shuttle bus times. You can keep it open on your phone as you walk. The map itself is in Japanese. Tap an image to enlarge it.
Open the PDF (to save or print)→
The venue lies in a valley and mobile reception can be weak. It is worth opening this page, or saving the PDF, before you set out.
The last Karamon-go leaves the Restored Townscape at 21:13 on 22 August and at 20:08 on 23 August. The timetable changed after the map was printed.
An ink painting exhibition, right beside the venue
Just beside the south entrance of the Restored Townscape, the Asakura Gallery is holding “The Asakura Clan × Miroku” ink painting exhibition. It runs from 2 August to 31 August, and admission is free.
The centrepiece is Wrapped in the Night of Ten Thousand Lanterns, a painting of the Mantouya night that won the Fukui Prefectural Board of Education Award at the 50th Fukui Prefecture Ink Painting Association Exhibition.
The gallery is open from 9:00 to 17:00. Mantouya begins in the evening, so you can look in during the day and stay on for the lights. Read more here.
A local set meal before Mantouya, at Asakura Mizu-no-Eki
At Michi-no-Eki Ichijodani Asakura Mizu-no-Eki, which is also a shuttle bus stop, a seven-dish meal made with local ingredients is served on two days only: Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 August. It costs 2,800 yen per person (tax included) and includes an advance ticket for Mantouya. Reservation required.
After eating you can board the shuttle bus there and head straight to the venue. Read more in this article.