The opening ceremony of the Batten Hinokuni Summer Festival will be held at 4 PM on July 18th (Saturday) at the Bipuresu Square (across the street from Tsuruya Department Store).
One of the festival events is Honmyoji Temple’s Tonshae, which will be held on July 23rd this year. For an English explanation of Tonshae, please see
http://kumanago.jp/en/events/detail/430000003663.html
A video that gives you an idea of what to expect can be found at
http://kumanago.jp/en/events/detail/430000003663.html
In addition, a Yukata festival will be held on August 1st and 2nd and then the main event, the Hinokuni Matsuri (festival) will be held on August 7th and 8th. For more information about the Hinokuni Matsuri see
http://kumanago.jp/en/events/detail/430000003540.html
This germ of this post is the following article from the July issue of Kumamoto City’s Shisei Dayori:
http://www.kumamoto-if.or.jp/topics/topics_detail.asp?PageID=5&ID=7908&pg=2&sort=0&LC=e