Chakkirako (Japanese: チャッキラコ) is a dance performed at a festival in Miura, Japan, to celebrate the New Year and bring good fortune, especially in fishing.^[1]

In 1976, Japan's government recognized this dance as an intangible cultural heritage to be protected.^[2] In 2009, it has been inscribed in UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.^[1] In 2022, the inscription was revoked and the dance incorporated into the broader subject of Furyu-odori.^[3]

The dance originated in the Edo period with influences by the dances of visiting sailors.^[4] By the mid-eighteenth century, it had become a showcase for local girls. Every year in the middle of January, ten to twenty girls in colorful kimono between the ages of 5 and 12 perform the dance at a shrine or in front of houses.^[4] They are accompanied by five to ten older women singing a capella.