On the night of April 3rd, more than a thousand uprising people concentrated around the present-day Makikata Higashi interchange at the sound of a fire bell, and marched toward Kashiwazaki Prefectural Office (present-day Kashiwazaki City) to file a direct petition, while peasants in the neighborhood joined the march.
4月3日夜、早鐘を合図に現在の巻潟東インターチェンジ付近に千数百名の一揆勢が集結し、道々周辺の農民を糾合しながら柏崎県庁（現柏崎市）へ強訴に向かった。