The eighth Tebasaki Summit kicked off with a speech from Mayor Kawamura on Friday evening at the Edion Hisaya Park in Central Park in Nagoya. 12 chicken wing vendors from around Japan and Indonesia along with 10 Aichi food vendors are selling their delicacies all weekend.
Four previous award winners returned, including Gifu-based Katchibun Shoten with their gold prize winning tulip chicken legs priced at two for 330 yen.
32 entertainers and music groups are scheduled throughout the event. Various informational and promotional tents are also at the Summit, including a tent selling tickets to the sumo Nagoya Summer Basho in July.
The last Tebasaki Summit was held in 2019 and drew over 100,000 visitors according to the Tebasaki Summit Committee that organizes the event. COVID-19 restrictions prevented the organizers from holding the event over that last 2 years.