The Tobata Gion Yamagasa festival (戸畑祇園山笠) is a popular local Japanese festival (matsuri) which takes place annually in Tobata, a ward of Kitakyushu in Fukuoka prefecture, Kyūshū, Japan.

The festival is a national cultural asset[citation needed] of Japan, and is centred on the parading of the "Yamagasa" (山笠).

Each region has a large Yamagasa for men and a small one for boys, making eight main floats in total.

Each with twelve layers of 309 lanterns, 10 meters high, and 1.5 tons in weight, is shouldered by about 100 carriers.

[citation needed] At that time the villagers held the Yamakasa Festival as the celebration event of the answer to their prayers.