2025

KURUSŌ

Nara
Dance Event
Bugaku (dance ritual from India) over 1 700 years old at Kiyomigahara ... Read more
2025

TAKIGI NOH

Kyoto
Festival and cultural event
Noh is one of Japan's oldest theatrical forms. Gestures and speech are ... Read more
2025

AWAJI-SHIMA MATSURI

Awaji-Shima
Dance Event
This is the most important festival on the island. Over three days, there ... Read more
2025

NACHI NO OGI MATSURI

Kumano
Festival and cultural event
It is one of the three main fire festivals in Japan. Taking place in the ... Read more
2025

DOYA-DOYA

Ōsaka
Festival and cultural event
At Shi Tennō-ji, it is the "naked festival", in which men dressed only in ... Read more
2025

HANAYU MATSURI

Misasa
Festival and cultural event
It is surely the most lively and surprising festival in the spa town of ... Read more
2025

UCHIWA-MAKI

Nara
Festival and cultural event
At Tōshōdai-ji. Throwing fans (uchiwa) and handing out rice cakes to the ... Read more
2025

NOBORIGAMA MATSURI

Tamba-Sasayama
Festival and cultural event
During these two days the potters bake their creations in the Noborigama, ... Read more
2025

TANBAYAKI POTERIES FESTIVAL

Tamba-Sasayama
Festival and cultural event
Two days of festivities during which Tanba potters present their work. ... Read more
2025

YUKATA MATSURI

Himeji
Festival and cultural event
This festival takes place at the Osakabe Shinto shrine. The inhabitants of ... Read more
2025

OKINA-MAI

Nara
Dance Event
The "Old Man's Dance" takes place on the eve of the Autumn Festival. Sacred ... Read more
2025

SHIKA-NO-TSUNOKIRI

Nara
Festival and cultural event
During the breeding season, in autumn, the many male deer in Nara Park can ... Read more
2025

AIZEN MATSURI

Ōsaka
Festival and cultural event
It is one of the oldest summer festivals in Japan and one of the three main ... Read more
2025

TENJIN MATSURI

Ōsaka
Festival and cultural event
Celebrated festival on the banks of the river with boats, rowing to the ... Read more
2025

OTAUE SHINJI

Ōsaka
Festival and cultural event
Ceremony of rice transplanting in Sumiyoshi-taisha from 1pm. Read more