Rice Terrace Events
The local community has begun holding a variety of outdoor events in the terraces in recent years to help bring people and the rice terrace landscape together.
Music in the Fields
A music festival has been held around November every year since 2001 at one of the three rice terraces of Yaeji, Ichiu, and Tanono. The festivals include a danjiri float parade and performances by marching bands and ocarina players. The angle of the terraces creates an amphitheater-like venue where the audience can sit or lie down to relax and enjoy the music.
Lighting Up the Night
One of the rice terraces becomes a wonderland of light for three days a week, typically from late October to November or December. Volunteers place thousands of LED lights around the terraces to create a show that changes color every 30 minutes.