In many cases, the object in which a deity resides or the object to which a spirit is drawn is transferred to a portable shrine, and an imperial visit to the shrine parishioner, or togyo (transfer of a sacred object from its place of enshrinement) to the otabisho (place where the sacred palanquin is lodged during a festival), or to the genkyu is performed.
多くの場合、神霊が宿った神体や依り代などを神輿に移し、氏子地域内への行幸、御旅所や元宮への渡御などが行われる。