
Ome City Nohryo Fireworks Festival
The 71st Ome City Nohryo Fireworks Festival features 4,132 fireworks to be hurled into the night sky over Nagayama Park …
The 71st Ome City Nohryo Fireworks Festival features 4,132 fireworks to be hurled into the night sky over Nagayama Park …
A traditional summer shrine festival at one of the most serene shrines in central Tokyo. Thankfully, the festival takes …
Dance to the beat of the taiko drums—or just watch—at this annual Bon dance festival at Tsukiji Honganji …
An array of of 35 vendors will be offering spicy Sri Lankan food including rice and curry, string hoppers, hoppers, egg …
The Akishima Citizen Whale Festival will take place on the first weekend at the Showa Park (athletics stadium). The …
Tanabata is celebrated in most places during July – but other places (like Fussa) celebrate it at a time closer to …
Officially ‘Noryo no Yube’ (translates to something like refreshing evening), this event at the Kyuu Yasuda …
Held every year, this summer nights festival incorporates a series of local festivals held around the water’s edge …
The Asagaya Tanabata Festival takes place every year in the Asagaya Pearl Center. The festival is tradition in East …
The rescheduled 32nd modern Olympic Games will be held in and around Tokyo over a two week period in mid Summer 2020 mid …
This event takes place at two different venues—Shibuya and Skytree. Tokyo Romantic Flea Market: Shibuya Peruse …
An evening event in which candle-lit lanterns are floated down the Sumida River. Toro nagashi is a tradition in which …
The annual Okutama Fireworks will take place right in front of Okutama Station. It’s a tiny fireworks show by …
The Jingugaien Fireworks Festival is the most urban and hence accessible of the Tokyo fireworks festivals. Approximately …
Shimokitazawa is a tight but very welcoming community, so this festival (formerly known as the Shimokitazawa summer …
Comic Market, better known as Comiket, is a bi-annual comic market and one of Japan’s biggest comic-related …
The Ueno Natsu Matsuri (summer festival) consists of various events and festivities over an approximately five-week-long …
Summer Sonic is scheduled to return in 2021, although with the Olympics being delayed until 2021, it’s not clear …
The Fukagawa Festival is officially one of the big three Shinto festivals of Tokyo along with the Sanno Matsuri and the …
Join the yukata-clad masses in the annual bon dance tradition at Rinko Park—in the shade of the skyscrapers on the …
Shimokitazawa’s Ichibancho shopping district comes to life in mid-August as the local Awa Odori festival …
If you already felt overwhelmed by the number of summer festivals in Tokyo, well, here’s another one. It …
Note: this market is closed for a while from January 2020. Watch this space—we’ll update as soon as we find …
Fuji Rock is the biggest music festival in the country, with between 100,000 and 150,000 people attending every year. …