Summer Comiket The Comic Market (“Comiket”) is an event held in August and December where groups and individuals can exchange…
Winter Comiket The Comic Market (“Comiket”) is an event held in August and December where groups and individuals can exchange…
Fukagawa Hachiman Festival The Fukagawa Hachiman Festival is one of three major festival of Edo (the other two being the Kanda…
Kachiya Matsuri Over 1,000 years ago the military leader Fujiwara no Hidesato came to the shrine to pray for victory…
Cycle Mode Tokyo Cycle Mode Tokyo is Japan’s largest sports bicycle exhibition, held primarily at the Tokyo Big Sight convention center…
Kameido Tenjin Wisteria Festival The wisteria at Kameido Tenjin Shrine (亀戸天神社) were planted during the Edo period and now the purple flowers…
Koto Fireworks Festival About 4,000 fireworks are launched from a barge on the Arakawa River for this annual hanabi taikai—and those…
Kameido Tenjin Shrine Plum Festival Over 300 plum tree blossom in the grounds of Kameido Tenjin Shrine between early February and early March.…
Kameidoten Usokae Bullfinch Exchange This annual event held at Kameidoten-jinja in Koto Ward celebrates the passing of good fortune into the year…
Markets Tomioka Hachimangu Flea & Antique Market Flea market and antique market in the grounds of Tomioka Hachiman Shrine.
Museums & Galleries Fukagawa Edo Museum Small museum dedicated to the Edo era with a life-size replica of a Tokyo shitamachi neighborhood from around 1840.
Gardens & Parks Kiyosumi Gardens Beautiful Japanese-style gardens around a large pond built on the site of a mansion owned by a wealthy merchant during the Edo period.
