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A summer festival in Shimbashi, this event features bon dancing, a yukata contest, food stalls, and a beer garden for local office workers.

An annual festival in Osaka, the Tenjin Matsuri occurs on July 24-25. It features land and river processions with boats, ritual drumming, and a large fireworks display.

An Awa dance festival in Koganei is held on the last weekend of July. Approximately 25 groups perform synchronized routines in the evening.

An Okinawan Eisa dance festival in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Multiple teams perform traditional dances with drumming for approximately one million spectators.

A dragon boat festival in Nagasaki where teams race 1,150 meters. The event features music, traditional dancing, and evening fireworks.

A bon odori festival in Tokyo, held at Tsukiji Honganji Temple, features traditional dancing and food stalls from the adjacent Tsukiji Outer Market.

A lantern floating festival in Chiyoda where over 2,000 lanterns are released onto the Chidorigafuchi Moat. The event is held for two nights in late July.

This Tokyo Bon Odori festival features synchronized folk dancing and taiko drumming. Participants dance around a central yagura tower at the West Exit of Ebisu Station.

A festival in Hachinohe City, the Hachinohe Sansha Taisai features parades with large, mechanically expanding floats. The event also includes a rare form of traditional polo.

A traditional summer festival featuring a procession of 80 massive, illuminated fan-shaped lanterns painted with warriors, accompanied by rhythmic taiko drums, flutes, and chanting.

A summer festival in Aomori City, the Nebuta Matsuri features parades of large, illuminated floats depicting mythical figures, accompanied by haneto dancers.

A summer festival in Numata, Gunma, the event features large tengu-head mikoshi (portable shrines) carried by women.