Canceled Okinawa Festival 2023
Yoyogi Park (Events Area) 代々木公園野外ステージ, 2-2-3 Jinnan, Shibuya, TokyoThe Okinawa Festival returns this year with performances from musicians on the main stage, food stalls, and booths…
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Hyakumangoku Matsuri 2023
Kanazawa Kanazawa Station, 1-1 Kinoshinbomachi, Kanazawa, IshikawaAnnual festival commemorating the entry of the feudal lord Maeda Toshiie into Kanazawa Castle in 1583
Torigoe Matsuri 2023
Torigoe Shrine 2-Chome 4-1 Torigoe, Taito, TokyoThis festival—centered around Torigoe Shrine in Asakusabashi—has a history dating back to the Heian era (794-1185 CE), but…
Kawasaki Daishi Wind Chime Market 2025
Kawasaki Daishi Kawasaki Daishi, 4-48 Daishimachi, Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki, KanagawaThe Kawasaki Daishi Wind Chime Market (川崎大師風鈴市, Kawasaki-Daishi Fūrin-ichi) is an annual event where makers from all over…
Iriya Asagao Matsuri (Morning Glory Festival) 2023
Shingenji 真源寺, 1-12-16 Shitaya, Taito, TokyoThe Iriya Asagao Matsuri (入谷朝顔まつり) claims to be the country’s biggest festival dedicated to Morning Glories, and takes…
Gujo Odori 2023
Gujo Gujo, GifuThe Gujo Odori (郡上おどり) is one of the three most important Bon Festivals in Japan. The festival, which…
Adachi Fish Market
Adachi Market 東京都中央卸売市場足立市場, Senjuhashidocho, Adachi, TokyoAdachi Fish Market is a wholesale seafood market and was off limits for non-traders, but in mid-2016 the…
Umi no Hi Lantern Festival in Odaiba 2023
Odaiba Seaside Park Odaiba Seaside Park, 1-4 Daiba, Minato, TokyoTo commemorate the public holiday Marine Day (Umi no Hi) over 50,000 paper lanterns are lit with candles…
Zojoji Temple Obon Matsuri 2023
Zojo-ji 4 Chome 4−7−35 Shibakoen,, Minato, TokyoAnnual o-bon dance festival at Zojoji Temple. Stalls selling festival food and drink line-up from around the Prince…
Adachi Fireworks Festival 2023
Arakawa-Nishiaraibashi Ryokuchi Park Arakawanishiaraibashi Ryokuchi Park, 4 Umeda, Adachi, TokyoOne of the more major firework events of the summer, the Adachi Fireworks Festival is held towards the…
Hachioji Festival 2023
Hachioji Station Hachioji Station, 1-8 Asahicho, Hachioji, TokyoThe Hachioji Festival is a major event on the Tokyo calendar and attracts visitors from far outside the…
Fukagawa Hachiman Festival 2023
Tomioka Hachiman Shrine Tomioka Hachiman Shrine, 1-20-3 Tomioka, Koto, TokyoThe Fukagawa Hachiman Festival is one of three major festival of Edo (the other two being the Kanda…
Nara Chugen Mantoro 2023
Kasuga Taisha Shrine 春日大社, 160 Kasuganocho, Nara, NaraMore than 3,000 lanterns are lit at Kasuga Taisha Shrine in Nara twice a year—on 3 February for…
Kitazawa Hachiman Festival 2023
Kitazawa Hachiman Shrine 北澤八幡神社, 3-25-3 Daizawa, Setagaya, Tokyo2-day festival held in early September that fills the streets south of Shimokitazawa Station. You can see the…
Moon Viewing at Mukojima-Hyakkaen 2023
Mukojima Hyakkaen Garden 向島百花園, 3-18-3 Higashimukōjima, Sumida, TokyoTowards the end of the Japanese Clover Festival, the Mukojima-Hyakkaen garden extends its opening hours until 9pm for the…
Manjushage Matsuri 2023
Kinchaku Park 巾着田, 125-2 Komahongo,, Hidaka, SaitamaManjushage is a deep red flower known as “Red Spider Lily” or “Red Magic Lily” and fields of…
Japanese Clover Festival 2023
Mukojima Hyakkaen Garden 向島百花園, 3-18-3 Higashimukōjima, Sumida, TokyoAnnual Japanese Clover Festival (萩まつり) at Mukojima Hyakkaen Gardens in Sumida. The garden is one of the capital’s…
Showa Kinen Park Cosmos Festival 2023
Showa Kinen Park 国営昭和記念公園, 3173 Midori-cho, Tachikawa, TokyoOver 20,000 square meters of fields and 6 million cosmos flowers come into bloom at Showa Kinen Park.
Adachi Fish Market
Adachi Market 東京都中央卸売市場足立市場, Senjuhashidocho, Adachi, TokyoAdachi Fish Market is a wholesale seafood market and was off limits for non-traders, but in mid-2016 the…
Edo Bakumatsu Hundred Member Gun Squad Ceremony 2023
Kaichu Inari Shrine 皆中稲荷神社, 1-11-16 Hyakuninchō, Shinjuku, TokyoThe Tokugawa shogunate’s 100 member gun squad are well-known in historical circles, and they are the reason that…
Okunitama Shrine Autumn Chestnut Festival 2023
Okunitama Shrine Okunitama Shrine, 3-3-1 Miyamachi, Fuchu, TokyoThis autumn festival has roots dating back to 1738 and, although temporarily cancelled, has survived the centuries in…
Ueno Zoo Free Admission Day
Ueno Zoo Ueno Zoo, 9-83 Uenokōen, Taito, TokyoThree times each year Ueno Zoo opens its doors to visitors for free!
The Railway Festival 2023
Hibiya Park Fountain Plaza 日比谷公園 噴水広場, 1 Hibiyakoen, Chiyoda, TokyoThe 14 October is Railway Day (鉄道の日), commemorating the date in 1872 that Shimbashi was linked to Yokohama…
Oeshiki at Ikegami Honmonji 2023
Ikegami Honmonji 池上本門寺, 1-1-1 Ikegami, Ota, TokyoCeremony commemorating the passing of the saint Nichiren, a 13th century Japanese Buddhist whose teaching provides the basis for Nichiren Buddhism.