2025

GOLDEN WEEK

Traditional Festival Folklore and Fair
It's the most popular week's vacation for the Japanese. It begins and ends ... Read more
2025

TENNO TANJOBI

Official festival
Emperor's birthday and national holiday. Read more
2025

FESTIVAL DE FEUX D'ARTIFICE DU PORT DE KŌBE

Kobe
Parties
Rockets are thrown on barges between Kobe Harborland and Port Island. The ... Read more
2025

TŌKA EBISU

Ōsaka
Religious festival
This festival is held at several shrines in Kansai. The most important ... Read more
2025

HALLOWEEN

Ōsaka
Parties
Admittedly, Halloween is not a traditional Japanese holiday. In the land of ... Read more
2025

SETSUBUN

Parties
Setsubun is the last day before the arrival of spring, and thus of the ... Read more
2025

HYAKUMANGOKU MATSURI

Kanazawa
Traditional Festival Folklore and Fair
The main annual festival in Kanazawa commemorates the entry of the Daimyō ... Read more
2025

HOSHIKUDARI MATSURI

Takarazuka
Religious festival
It is said that on August 9, in the temple of Nakayamadera in Takarazuka, ... Read more
2025

AKŌ GISHI FESTIVAL

Ako
Parade
Today celebrates the 47 buddies, known for venting their master in the ... Read more
2025

KINOSAKI DANJIRI MATSURI

Kinosaki
Traditional Festival Folklore and Fair
It is the most important festival in Kinosaki. Over a period of two days, ... Read more
2025

NADA NO KENKA MATSURI

Himeji
Religious festival
This festival takes place in the shrine of Matsubara Hachiman, in the city ... Read more
2025

KENKOKU KINENBI

Official festival
The anniversary of the founding of the Japanese state is celebrated ... Read more
2025

SEIJIN SHIKI

Parties
The Day of Coming of Age is a public holiday celebrating young Japanese ... Read more
2025

YAMAYAKI

Nara
Traditional Festival Folklore and Fair
Celebration whose origin goes back to the conflicts between the monks of ... Read more
2025

OMIZUTORI

Nara
Religious festival
It is the oldest annual Buddhist festival in Japan (since more than 1250 ... Read more
2025

JURI-UMA IN TSUJI

Naha
Parade
Parade of women from the Pleasure district who parade in their famous ... Read more
2025

KANDA MATSURI

Tokyo
Traditional Festival Folklore and Fair
A mythical matsuri from Tokyo and also one of the three most important ... Read more
2025

O-BON

Tokyo
Religious festival
The celebrations, which show respect for ancestors and the dead, extend ... Read more
2025

ILLUMINATIONS

Tokyo
Traditional Festival Folklore and Fair
If the Japanese don't celebrate Christmas, they celebrate winter with ... Read more
2025

HANAMI

Tokyo
Traditional Festival Folklore and Fair
The cherry blossoms, so typical of Japan, are an unmissable annual event. ... Read more
2025

DAIMONJI NO OKURIBI

Traditional Festival Folklore and Fair
The "Daimonji fires", symbol of summer in Kyoto, take place on the evening ... Read more
2025

KŌYŌ

Tokyo
Traditional Festival Folklore and Fair
Just as the arrival of spring is celebrated under the cherry blossoms, ... Read more
2025

HINA MATSURI

Traditional Festival Folklore and Fair
This doll festival is celebrated all over the Archipelago. It is also ... Read more
2025

DEZOMESHIKI

Tokyo
Parade
The Tokyo City Firefighters New Year's Day Parade takes place every year at ... Read more
2025

AOI MATSURI

Kyoto
Parade
The "hollyhock festival" is one of the three largest festivals in Kyoto. On ... Read more
2025

GION MATSURI

Kyoto
Parade
It is the most famous festival in Japan. It dates back to the year 869 and ... Read more
2025

FEU D'ARTIFICE DU FLEUVE SUMIDA

Tokyo
Traditional Festival Folklore and Fair
Sublime fireworks over the Sumida river, in Asakusa district. It is one of ... Read more
2025

SANJA MATSURI

Tokyo
Religious festival
One of the most popular festivals in Tokyo. It is held in Asakusa, ... Read more
2025

SETSUBUN

Tokyo
Religious festival
Setsubun is the last day before the arrival of spring, and traditionally ... Read more
2025

LANTERN FESTIVAL

Nara
Traditional Festival Folklore and Fair
Setsubun in Nara is celebrated with great pomp to celebrate the transition ... Read more
2025

TANABATA

Traditional Festival Folklore and Fair
The Star Festival celebrates the legend of lovers, represented by the stars ... Read more
2025

HATSUMODE

Official festival
New Year's Day is the only day of the year in Japan when most activities ... Read more
2025

REITAISAI AU TSURUGAOKA HACHIMANGU

Tokyo
Religious festival
The annual celebrations of this sanctuary are spread over three days. On ... Read more
2025

SEIJIN SHIKI

Traditional Festival Folklore and Fair
The day of coming of age is a holiday on which young people who have just ... Read more
2025

KURAMA NO HI MATSURI

Kyoto
Traditional Festival Folklore and Fair
During the Torch Festival, people gather at Yuki Shrine, and huge torches ... Read more
2025

OKERAMAIRI

Kyoto
Religious festival
This ritual festival illuminates the last night of the year in Kyoto. On ... Read more

HALLOWEEN

Tokyo
Carnival
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Halloween may not be a traditional Japanese holiday, but in the land of ... Read more