Oct262026
Tokyo International Film Festival 2026 (39th TIFF)
Japan's largest international film festival screens 204 films over 10 days in central Tokyo.
Tokyo · City guide
What's on in Tokyo.
The capital runs the deepest calendar in the country: the great summer matsuri and fireworks, the sumo tournaments at Ryogoku, design weeks, film festivals and winter illuminations, spread across a city that rewards picking a neighbourhood and staying in it.
On in Tokyo
Oct282026
Shojo Manga Infinity: Moto Hagio x Ryoko Yamagishi x Waki Yamato (National Art Center Tokyo)
Landmark three-artist exhibition of shojo manga legends Hagio, Yamagishi and Yamato, part of the Art Week Tokyo 2026 institutional programme.
Oct302026
DESIGNART TOKYO 2026
Tokyo's design and art festival fills around 70 venues across the city for 10 days.
Oct302026
Tokyo Ramen Festa
One of Japan's largest ramen events, with 12 ramen shops from across the country serving at Komazawa Olympic Park.
Oct312026
Mariko Mori: All That Shines (Mori Art Museum)
Major retrospective of Mariko Mori, including the walk-in Wave UFO, at the Mori Art Museum ahead of its temporary closure from 2027-09-24 for renovation.
Oct312026
Roppongi Art Night 2026
Tokyo's all-night art festival returns, running from 5pm on 31 October to 6am on 1 November 2026.
Oct312026
Tokyo Mega Illumi 2026-2027
Oi Racecourse's Tokyo Mega Illumi runs its final season in 2026-2027, with the 100 metre Edo cherry blossom tunnel.
Nov12026
Kabuki at Kabuki-za: November 2026 Programme
Kabuki-za's November programme runs 1 to 25 November 2026 with matinee and evening performances.
Nov32026
Yamanashi Nouveau Festival 2026 (Tokyo)
Release-day festival for Yamanashi Nouveau (Koshu and Muscat Bailey A new wine), with dozens of Yamanashi wineries pouring in Hibiya Park on the Culture Day holiday.
Nov42026
Art Week Tokyo 2026
Art Basel-partnered citywide week linking 42 galleries and 13 institutional shows via free shuttle buses, with ten AWT Focus curator-led spaces. Tokyo's key annual contemporary-art moment.
Nov52026
Roppongi Hills Keyakizaka Illumination
Roppongi Hills lights its Keyakizaka zelkova avenue with about 970,000 LEDs in the 2026 'SNOW & BLUE' colour scheme.
Nov52026
Tokyo Skytree Town Dream Christmas 2026
Tokyo Skytree Town lights about 400,000 bulbs for its Dream Christmas, in 2026 themed 'STAR LIGHT GOLD'.
Nov62026
Whisky Festival 2026 in Tokyo
Japan's largest whisky tasting fair, 121 exhibitors including Japanese craft distilleries, run by critic Mamoru Tsuchiya's Whisky Culture Institute. Prime chance to taste rare Japanese whisky.
Nov112026
Shinjuku Minamillumi 2026-2027
About 275,000 LEDs light six venues around Shinjuku Station's south side, including Southern Terrace and the Suica Penguin plaza.
Nov122026
HIBIYA Magic Time Illumination 2026
Tokyo Midtown Hibiya lights Hibiya Step Square, its Park View Garden and Hibiya Naka-dori from mid November to the end of February.
Nov122026
Marunouchi Illumination
Winter illumination of champagne-gold lights on the street trees of Marunouchi Naka-dori in Tokyo.
Nov142026
Baccarat Eternal Lights at Ebisu Garden Place
Ebisu Garden Place hangs its Baccarat crystal chandelier for the 27th edition of its winter illumination.
Nov192026
Tokyo Dome City Winter Illumination: TOKYO SNOW DOME CITY
Tokyo Dome City's 2026 winter illumination, 'TOKYO SNOW DOME CITY', uses over a million lights and a Cinnamoroll collaboration.
Nov262026
Tokyo Midtown Midwinter Lights (MIDTOWN CHRISTMAS 2026)
Tokyo Midtown's Midtown Garden becomes 'Midwinter Lights', a snowy forest and aurora scene with floating bubbles, for MIDTOWN CHRISTMAS 2026.
Dec12026
Omotesando Illumination 2026
Omotesando's zelkova avenue is expected to light about 900,000 champagne-gold bulbs along 1.1 kilometres for Christmas 2026.
Dec22026
Kabuki at Kabuki-za: December Grand Kabuki 2026
The December Grand Kabuki runs 2 to 25 December 2026 in three parts a day.
Dec42026
Meguro River Minna no Illumination
The Meguro River's 'winter cherry blossoms' are expected to light about 390,000 pink LEDs along 2.2 kilometres between Gotanda and Osaki.
Dec112026
Ao no Dokutsu SHIBUYA 2026
Shibuya's 'blue cave' turns 900 metres from Shibuya Koen-dori to the Yoyogi Park zelkova avenue deep blue for just over two weeks.
Dec292026
Comic Market 109 (Winter Comiket)
Winter edition of Comic Market (Comiket), the world's largest doujinshi fair, at Tokyo Big Sight.
Jan12027
Emperor's Cup JFA 106th All-Japan Football Championship Final
Japan's oldest football competition ends with the traditional New Year's Day final at the National Stadium, a fixture of the Tokyo oshogatsu sports calendar alongside Hakone Ekiden.
Jan22027
Hakone Ekiden 2027 (103rd)
Japan's biggest university relay: 21 teams race Tokyo to Hakone and back over two days, 217.1 km in all.
Jan22027
Kabuki at Kabuki-za: January 2027 New Year Programme
Kabuki-za's January New Year programme is expected to open on 2 January 2027; the programme was not yet announced at verification.
Jan102027
Hatsu Grand Sumo Tournament 2027
The New Year grand sumo tournament: 15 days at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo.
Jan192027
Special Exhibition: The Tale of Genji, Splendour of the Heian Court (Tokyo National Museum)
Major winter special exhibition at the Tokyo National Museum devoted to the Tale of Genji and Heian court culture, with national-treasure scrolls and screens.
Jan212027
Tokyo Art Book Fair 2026 (16th edition)
The 16th Tokyo Art Book Fair runs at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo over two blocks in January 2027.
Feb82027
Yushima Tenjin Plum Festival
Tokyo's classic plum festival, around 300 plum trees at the shrine of the god of learning.
Mar72027
Tokyo Marathon
Marathon through central Tokyo from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building to Tokyo Station.
Mar112027
Art Fair Tokyo 2027 (21st edition)
Japan's largest art fair holds its 21st edition at Tokyo International Forum, 11 to 14 March 2027.
Mar242027
DIVA (National Art Center Tokyo x V&A)
The V&A's blockbuster DIVA exhibition comes to Tokyo, tracing 100 singers and performers from opera to pop, co-organised with Sony Music Entertainment in NACT's 20th-anniversary year.
Mar252027
Chidorigafuchi Cherry Blossom Illumination (Chiyoda Sakura Festival)
About 230 cherry trees over the Imperial Palace moat, lit at night, with rowing boats under the blossom.
Mar272027
AnimeJapan
One of the world's largest anime events, held at Tokyo Big Sight with two public days.
Mar272027
Naka-Meguro Cherry Blossom Festival (Meguro River)
A weekend festival under about 800 cherry trees arching over the Meguro River canal in Nakameguro.
Apr162027
Craft Sake Week at Roppongi Hills
Thirteen days of sake tasting from around 130 breweries at Roppongi Hills Arena.
Apr252027
M3 (Music Media-mix Market) Spring
Japan's leading doujin music fair, a one-day market for independent music at Tokyo Ryutsu Center.
May92027
Natsu Grand Sumo Tournament 2027
The May grand sumo tournament: 15 days at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo.
May132027
Kanda Matsuri (main festival year)
One of Japan's three great festivals, held in full only in odd-numbered years: a 30 km day-long procession of priests on horseback, floats and mikoshi through the business districts of central Tokyo, followed by 100 neighbourhood mikoshi entering the shrine.
May142027
Sanja Matsuri
Tokyo's wildest festival: around 100 neighbourhood mikoshi and the three great shrine mikoshi are carried through Asakusa by tens of thousands of bearers, drawing nearly two million spectators over three days.
Jul302027
TOKYO IDOL FESTIVAL
Three-day idol music festival across stages in Tokyo's Odaiba and Aomi waterfront area.
Jul312027
Sumida River Fireworks Festival
Fireworks display launched from two sites along the Sumida River in Tokyo, in the Asakusa area.
Aug72027
Edogawa Fireworks Festival
Fireworks display over the Edogawa River in Edogawa, held jointly with Ichikawa City across the river in Chiba.
Aug72027
Itabashi Fireworks Festival
Fireworks display over the Arakawa River in Itabashi, held at the same time as the Todabashi display across the river.
Aug142027
Comic Market 110 (Summer Comiket)
Summer edition of Comic Market (Comiket), the world's largest doujinshi fair, at Tokyo Big Sight.
Aug142027
Jingu Gaien Fireworks Festival
Ticketed fireworks and live music festival at Meiji Jingu Gaien in Tokyo, with about 10,000 fireworks.
Sep122027
Aki Grand Sumo Tournament 2027
The September grand sumo tournament: 15 days at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo.
Sep182027
Ultra Japan
Japanese edition of the Ultra Music Festival electronic dance music event, at Tokyo Odaiba Ultra Park in Koto City, Tokyo.
Oct22027
Setagaya Tamagawa Fireworks Festival
Autumn fireworks display over the Tama River at Futako-Tamagawa in Setagaya, held simultaneously with Kawasaki's display across the river.
Oct252027
Tokyo International Film Festival 2027 (40th TIFF)
The 40th, anniversary edition of TIFF is expected in late October 2027; dates not yet announced.
Oct302027
Roppongi Art Night 2027
The 2027 edition of Tokyo's all-night art festival is expected on the last weekend of October 2027.
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