Meiji Jingu Spring Grand Festival 2025
Meiji Shrine Meiji Jingu, 1-1 Yoyogikamizonocho, Shibuya, TokyoThe Meiji Jingu Spring Grand Festival (春の大祭) is a series of traditional performances that take place at the…
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Hakata Dontaku Port Festival 2023
Fukuoka City Fukuoka, FukuokaThe Hakata Dontaku (博多どんたく港まつり, Hakata Dontaku Minato Matsuri) is one of the most popular festivals during “Golden Week”,…
Shibuya-Kagoshima Ohara Matsuri 2023
Shibuya Shibuya Station, 2 Chrome Dogenzaka, Shibuya, TokyoThe Shibuya-Kagoshima Ohara Matsuri (おはら祭) is an annual event held in the center of Shibuya which has roots in Ohara-bushi…
Nikko Toshogu Shrine Spring Grand Festival 2023
Nikko Toshogu Shrine 2301 Sannai, Nikko, TochigiThe Grand Festival (例大祭) at Nikko Toshogu Shrine is held on 17 & 18 May every year in…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
Koenji Festival 2023
Koenji Station 高円寺駅, 4-48 Kōenjiminami, Suginami, Tokyo2-day festival held around Koenji Station with participating restaurants and shops, a stamp rally, and other events.
White Heron Dance in Asakusa
Sensoji Temple Senso-ji, 2-3-1 Asakusa, Taito, TokyoThe White Heron Dance (白鷺の舞) has roots in a scroll which depicted scenes of a parade praying for…
Asakusa Tori no Ichi I
Chokokuji 長國寺, 3-19-6 Senzoku, Taito, TokyoOpen-air market held on the day of the tori (rooster) during November—a tradition that has continued since the…
Hanazono Tori no Ichi I
Hanazono Shrine 花園神社, 5-17-3 Shinjuku, Shinjuku, TokyoOpen-air market held on the day of the tori (rooster) during November—a tradition that has continued since the…
Asakusa Tori no Ichi II
Chokokuji 長國寺, 3-19-6 Senzoku, Taito, TokyoOpen-air market held on the day of the tori (rooster) during November—a tradition that has continued since the…
Hanazono Tori no Ichi II
Hanazono Shrine 花園神社, 5-17-3 Shinjuku, Shinjuku, TokyoOpen-air market held on the day of the tori (rooster) during November—a tradition that has continued since the…
Kyoto Arashiyama Hanatoro 2023
Arashiyama, Kyoto Togetsu-kyō Bridge, Ukyō-ku, Kyoto, KyotoHanatoro (花灯路, Hanatōro) is a 10-day long illuminations that takes place in Kyoto’s Higashiyama District in March and…