Four of the dances are performed each evening. The kagura of Takachiho consists of thirty-three numbers in total, and four representative ones are shown nightly at the shrine's kagura hall: Tajikarao, Uzume, Totori and Goshintai. The performance begins at eight in the evening and runs for about an hour, which makes it accessible to anybody staying in the town without requiring a whole night.

The Takachiho yokagura itself is designated an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property, and in its original form it is danced through the whole night, village by village, across the winter. The shrine stands at the end of an approach through tall cedars, and the kagura hall is inside those grounds, so the walk in and the performance are continuous with each other rather than separated by a ticket hall. Nobeoka is about ninety minutes away by car. There is no railway at all, so shopping and medical care mean either what the town itself provides or the drive down to Nobeoka and back.

Dancing all thirty-three numbers in one night is the community's own event. It is performed as that year's obligation rather than for an audience, which is why the four-number version shown nightly is something separately arranged rather than a shortened version of it. The distinction between the two is maintained carefully here, and it is worth respecting rather than blurring. Keeping the community's own event apart from the nightly performance, instead of merging them into one convenient product, is where this town has chosen to draw its line.