2025

HANA MATSURI

Tokyo
Religious festival
Buddha's Birthday (Bussho-e), also popularly known as the Flower Festival, ... Read more
2025

OMIZOTURI

Nara
Religious festival
This festival of water pumping is extremely monitored and famous throughout ... Read more
2025

KANBUTSUE

Nara
Religious festival
At Tōdai-ji temple. Birthday of Shaka (name of Buddha). Fête des Fleurs ... Read more
2025

REITAISAI

Kamakura
Traditional Festival Folklore and Fair
The Reitaisai festival, which takes place at Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine, ... Read more
2025

OWARA KAZE-NO-BON

Toyama
Religious festival
Taking place during the typhoon season that ravages crops every year, this ... Read more
2025

TŌKA EBISU

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

NADA NO KENKA MATSURI

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

OMIZUTORI

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

O-BON

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

SANJA MATSURI

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

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

OKERAMAIRI

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