The Kanamara Matsuri, also known as the “Festival of the Steel Phallus”, is held once a year at the Kanayama Shrine in the city of Kawasaki. This ‘penis festival’ basically celebrates the male sexual organ and its fertility. People from all over Japan, along with many foreigners, come to celebrate “the power of the humble penis.”

During the event you can find everything from people dressed in phallic costumes, giant phallic statues and parade floats, candies, food, balloons and anything you can think of shaped in the form of a penis.