Watching hotels across Minamisoma, Soma and Iwaki for the thousand-year-old samurai cavalry festival on May's final weekend.
Watched nights: dates to be announced. Base: Hibarigahara Festival Grounds (Haranomachi). This event is watched on demand: tap resume on the page to start it, and the instant a highly-rated hotel frees up (a cancellation), Aki alerts you with a one-click Rakuten Travel booking link.
A thousand-year-old cavalry festival — armored horse races and the flag scramble — draws 130,000 over three days. Minamisoma and Soma hold barely 30 inns, many block-booked long-term by reconstruction crews, so the visitor pool is thinner still.
Fixed to May's final Sat–Mon since the 2023 committee decision. Bookings surge the moment each year's dates are published; Iwaki down the Joban corridor is the fallback.
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