2024

KURUSŌ

Dance Event
Bugaku (dance ritual from India) over 1 700 years old at Kiyomigahara ... Read more
 Nara
2024

TAKIGI NOH

Festival and cultural event
The No, Japan's oldest theatre, is honoured at the Takigi Noh festival, ... Read more
 Kyoto
2024

AWAJI-SHIMA MATSURI

Dance Event
This is the most important festival on the island. Over three days, there ... Read more
 Awaji-Shima
2024

NACHI NO OGI MATSURI

Festival and cultural event
It is one of the three main fire festivals in Japan. Taking place in the ... Read more
 Kumano
2024

DOYA-DOYA

Festival and cultural event
At Shi Tennō-ji, it is the "naked festival", in which men dressed only in ... Read more
 Ōsaka
2024

HANAYU MATSURI

Festival and cultural event
For two days, the small spa town of Misasa is the scene of an ancestral ... Read more
 Misasa
2024

UCHIWA-MAKI

Festival and cultural event
At Tōshōdai-ji. Throwing fans (uchiwa) and handing out rice cakes to the ... Read more
 Nara
2024

NOBORIGAMA MATSURI

Festival and cultural event
During these two days the potters bake their creations in the Noborigama, ... Read more
 Tamba-Sasayama
2024

TANBAYAKI POTERIES FESTIVAL

Festival and cultural event
Two days of festivities during which Tanba potters present their work. ... Read more
 Tamba-Sasayama
2024

YUKATA MATSURI

Festival and cultural event
This festival takes place at the Osakabe Shinto shrine. The inhabitants of ... Read more
 Himeji
2024

OKINA-MAI

Dance Event
The "Old Man's Dance" takes place on the eve of the Autumn Festival. Sacred ... Read more
 Nara
2024

SHIKA-NO-TSUNOKIRI

Festival and cultural event
During the breeding season, in autumn, the many male deer in Nara Park can ... Read more
 Nara
2024

AIZEN MATSURI

Festival and cultural event
During this matsuri, the Japanese celebrate the passage from spring to ... Read more
 Ōsaka
2024

TENJIN MATSURI

Festival and cultural event
Celebrated festival on the banks of the river with boats, rowing to the ... Read more
 Ōsaka
2024

OTAUE SHINJI

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