The festival starts with celebration and preparation at 10:00 a.m. at Tagata Jinja, where all sorts of foods and souvenirs (mostly phallus-shaped or related) are sold.
Festival počinje proslavom i pripremom u 10 sati ujutro u Tagata Jinji gdje se prodaju sve vrste hrane i suvenira (većinom faličnih ili sličnih oblika).