Culture Yokosuka YY Festival 2025 May 31st - Jun 1st While there are several festivals in the city, the Yokosuka YY Festival... This festival is a mix of various different elements of Yokosuka all located
Culture Hiroshima Flower Festival 2026 Early May The Flower Festival, with its carnivalesque atmosphere, draws over a million... Although it has endured for nearly 40 years, the Flower Festival lacks
Activities Kazahaya Fireworks Festival 2025 Late Jul The Kazahaya Umi Matsuri (Kazayaha Sea Festival) is typical of these events... launched from the long piers jutting out northwards from Kashima, and the festival
Culture Shinno-sai Festival 2025 Nov 22nd - Nov 23rd Held annually on 22nd to 23rd November, Shinno-sai is the last festival to be held in Osaka, thus also known as the Tome-no-matsuri “The Stop (Last) Festival
Shopping Handa Dashi Festival Chris Glenn Japan’s greatest Dashi, or parade float festival, the Handa Dashi Festival happens every 5 years in Handa, just south of Nagoya City.
Okinawan Dance Festival Cathy Cawood Big festival of Okinawan dance held in the streets of downtown Machida every year over one weekend in September.
Culture Shinbashi Koichi Festival 2025 Jul 24th - Jul 25th Shinbashi Koichi Festival in Tokyo, an annual summer party with delicious food, drinks, drumming and dancing. Not to mention a Yukata Beauty contest.
Culture Yachiyo Azalea Festival Tom Hanaway The azalea plants take center stage at the eighth annual Yachiyo Azalea Festival in Chiba.