In this shrine, a ceremony, 'meigen no gi' (a ceremony of resounding bowstrings), in which people equipped with suit of armor parade around the town and shoot arrows towards the ocean to pray for peace for the island, is held every year on November 12, during the Komodahama Shrine Festival.
この神社では毎年11月12日の小茂田浜神社大祭において、鎧冑姿で練り歩き、海に向かって弓を放ち島の平和を祈願する「鳴弦の儀」が行われている。