From 14 to 16 April, the town's most famous festival, Nagahama Hikiyama Matsuri, takes place; it's scheduled to join the Unesco World Heritage list in 2016. The highlight is costumed five- to 13-year-old children performing kabuki (stylised Japanese theatre) plays aboard a dozen elaborately ornamented hikiyama (festival floats). Floats are about 6m high and weigh about 4.6 tonnes. The rest of the year, check out four of the 13 floats at this museum on the eastern side of Kurokabe Square.
