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Numata Tengu Festival 2023

Numata, Gunma 沼田市役所, 780 Nishikurauchimachi, Numata, Gunma

Held every year on 3-5 August, The Numata Tengu Festival (沼田まつり, Numata Matsuri) is a famous festival in…

Hachioji Festival 2023

Hachioji Station Hachioji Station, 1-8 Asahicho, Hachioji, Tokyo

The Hachioji Festival is a major event on the Tokyo calendar and attracts visitors from far outside the…

Akita Kanto Matsuri 2023

Akita 秋田駅, 7-1-2 Nakadori, Akita, Akita

The Akita Kanto Matsuri (秋田竿燈まつり) is an annual festival to pray for a good harvest known for the…

Yamagata Hanagasa Matsuri 2023

Yamagata City Yamagata, Yamgata

The Yamagata Hanagasa Festival was first held in 1963 and today is a major festival in Tohoku, attracting…

Fussa Tanabata Matsuri 2023

Fussa Station Fussa Station, Honcho, Fussa, Tokyo

The Fussa Tanabata Matsuri has been held every year since 1951 and today sees about 100 food, drink…

Asagaya Tanabata Matsuri 2023

Asagaya Station Asagaya Station, 3-58 Asagayaminami, Suginami, Tokyo

Every year at the beginning of August this shopping center in Suginami ward sees visitors come from all…

Sumidagawa Paper Lantern Floating 2023

Asakusa Asakusa Station, 2-20 Kaminarimon, Taito, Tokyo

Sumidagawa paper lantern floating (灯篭流し, tōrō-nagashi) festival began in 1946 to pay respects and mourn those who lost…

Sendai Tanabata Matsuri 2023

Sendai Sendai Station, 1 Chome-10-10 Chūō, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi

Tanabata Festivals (sometimes known as “Star Festivals”) are held throughout Japan during July and August, but none is…

Fukagawa Hachiman Festival 2023

Tomioka Hachiman Shrine Tomioka Hachiman Shrine, 1-20-3 Tomioka, Koto, Tokyo

The Fukagawa Hachiman Festival is one of three major festival of Edo (the other two being the Kanda…

Tokushima Awa Odori 2023

Tokushima 徳島駅, Tokushima, Tokushima

There are hundreds of Awa Odori festivals that take place over the summer in Japan, but the Tokushima…

Nara Chugen Mantoro 2023

Kasuga Taisha Shrine 春日大社, 160 Kasuganocho, Nara, Nara

More than 3,000 lanterns are lit at Kasuga Taisha Shrine in Nara twice a year—on 3 February for…

Chichibu Ondo Dance Festival 2023

Minano Town Hall, Chichibu 皆野町役場, Minano, Chichibu, Saitama

The Chichibu Ondo Dance Festival (秩父音頭まつり) is held on the 14 August every year and sees approximately 70…

Nagasaki Spirit Boat Procession 2023

Kenchozaka Dori, Nagasaki 県庁坂通り, Nagasaki, Nagasaki

Bon Festival celebrations welcoming back ancestors from the spirit world

Gozan no Okuribi 2022

Kyoto City Kyoto, Kyoto, Kyoto

Daimonji Gozan no Okuribi (also known as the “Daimonji Festival”) is a bonfire festival held on 16 August…

Azabu-Juban Noryo Matsuri 2023

Azabu-Juban Azabu-juban Station, 1-4-6 Azabu-juban, Minato, Tokyo

Azabu-Juban's Noryo-Matsuri is one of Tokyo's more famous summer festivals. Held over one weekend at the end of…

Harajuku Super Yosakoi 2023

Harajuku Harajuku Station, 1-18 Jingumae, Shibuya, Tokyo

The Harajuku Super Yosakoi—or the “Harajuku Omotesando Genki Matsuri Super Yosakoi Festival”, to give it its full name—is…

Koenji Awa Odori 2023

Koenji Station 高円寺駅, 4-48 Kōenjiminami, Suginami, Tokyo

Awa Odori in Koenji that has been held since 1957 and today attracts almost one million visitors over…

Kitazawa Hachiman Festival 2023

Kitazawa Hachiman Shrine 北澤八幡神社, 3-25-3 Daizawa, Setagaya, Tokyo

2-day festival held in early September that fills the streets south of Shimokitazawa Station. You can see the…

Daradara Matsuri 2023

Shiba Daijingu 芝大神宮, 1-12-7 Shibadaimon, Minato, Tokyo

Owing to the period of which it is held (11-days), as well as its timing in the middle…

Akasaka Hikawa Matsuri 2023

Akasaka Hikawa Shrine 赤坂氷川神社, 6-10-12 Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo

Well-known festival that sees mikoshi and floats move around the streets of Akasaka. During the Edo period is…

Nezu Shrine Annual Grand Festival 2023

Nezu Shrine Nezu Shrine, 1-28-9 Nezu, Bunkyo, Tokyo

Popular annual festival at Nezu Shrine near Yanaka. The shrine’s spacious grounds will be filled with festival stalls…

Ohara Hadaka Matsuri 2023

Ohara Station 大原駅, Ohara, Isumi, Chiba

The Ohara Hadaka Matsuri (大原はだか祭り, “Ohara Naked Festival”) is a 2-day annual festival held in Isumi City, Chiba.…

Edo Bakumatsu Hundred Member Gun Squad Ceremony 2023

Kaichu Inari Shrine 皆中稲荷神社, 1-11-16 Hyakuninchō, Shinjuku, Tokyo

The Tokugawa shogunate’s 100 member gun squad are well-known in historical circles, and they are the reason that…

Hatsudai Awa Odori Festival 2023

Hatsudai Hatsudai Station, 1-1 Hommachi, Shibuya, Tokyo

The Hatsudari Awa Odori Festival has been held in the commercial district of Hatsudai annual on 21/22 September…