
Nogi Shrine Summer Festival
The Nogi Summer Shrine Festival is a classic shrine festival with food stalls, traditional games, and yukata.
The Nogi Summer Shrine Festival is a classic shrine festival with food stalls, traditional games, and yukata.
Officially ‘Noryo no Yube’ (translates to something like refreshing evening), this event at the Kyuu Yasuda Teien garden features a light up of the gardens as well as haiku …
The Akishima Citizen Whale Festival will take place on the first weekend at the Showa Park (athletics stadium). The nearest station is the Higashi-Nakagami Station on JR Ome Line. Hihglights …
Tanabata is celebrated in most places during July – but other places (like Fussa) celebrate it at a time closer to the timing on the traditional calendar. This particular event was started …
Running for nearly 50 years, the Edogawa Fireworks Festival is one of the more senior fireworks festivals in Tokyo. The venue, on the banks of the Edo River, is a 25-minute walk from JR Koiwa …
The Ome City Nohryo Fireworks Festival features more than 4,000 fireworks hurled into the night sky over Nagayama Park in Ome City in the evening of the first Saturday in August. There will be …
The Itabashi Fireworks Festival is always a good show. Roughly 12,000 fireworks are expected to go off this year — and there should be some colorful character and flower shapes in the mix. …
Spend a week away in Japan's most famous onsen town, but instead of soaking in the springs, soak in the festival atmosphere and days of fireworks and festivals.
Tsukiji Honganji Bon Dance Festival is an annual Bon dance festival held in Tsukiji.
Blue skies are the perfect time to visit this small antique fair. Enjoy some casual browsing without the pressure and noise of the larger markets.
An array of of 35 vendors will be offering spicy Sri Lankan food including rice and curry, string hoppers, hoppers, egg hoppers, kotturotti, cutlets, rotti and vaddai. Also on offer will be Sri …
Enjoy the main stage attractions like a music festival mosh pit, or chill out a little further away and enjoy the spirit of Bon Odori. Either way, Central Park is the place to cap off Obon with a …
Asagaya Tanabata Festival is a Star Festival in the Tokyo neighborhood of Asagaya.
Soak in some summer spirit with the traditional dances at the Nakameguro Summer Festival. With it being the first in three years, the crowds are likely to be huge to see the Awaodori and Yosakoi …
This Bon Dance Festival is held in the trendy neighborhood of Shimokitazawa
The annual Koto-ku Fireworks Festival will see 4,000 fireworks going off—making it about a third of the size of Tokyo’s biggest fireworks festivals. It’s still a good, colourful show …
The annual Okutama Fireworks will take place right in front of Okutama Station. It’s a tiny fireworks show by Tokyo standards – you can expect just 1,000 fireworks – but in a …
The annual Okutama Fireworks will take place right in front of Okutama Station. It’s a tiny fireworks show by Tokyo standards – you can expect just 1,000 fireworks – but in a …
Blue skies are the perfect time to visit this small antique fair. Enjoy some casual browsing without the pressure and noise of the larger markets.
Minato Mirai Bon Dance Festival is an annual Bon festival held on the waterfront in Yokohama.
Comic Market, better known as Comiket, is one of Japan’s biggest annual pop culture events. It’s held twice per year, in summer and winter, at Tokyo Big Sight. The focus of the event is …
Asakusa Toro Nagashi is a beautiful evening event with candle-lit lanterns sent floating down the Sumida River.