At first mainly children carrying small pine torches, and then grown-ups holding rather huge pine torches parade in the village with shouts, 'sairei ya, sairyo' (meaning festival), and head for otabisho (the resting place for a portable shrine being moved about on its feast day) called 'nakama.'
初めは主に子どもが小さな松明を、その後は青年など大人が比較的大きな松明を持って「サイレイヤ、サイリョウ」（祭礼や、祭礼の意）のかけ声と共に集落内を練り歩き、「仲間」と呼ばれる御旅所へ向かう。