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What's on in Japan in August 2027.

Festivals, fireworks, illuminations and seasonal events starting in August 2027, checked against official sources.

Aug12027

Hirosaki Neputa Matsuri

Hirosaki, Aomori · Festivals · Sun 01 to Sat 07 Aug 2027

Summer festival in Hirosaki with about 80 fan-shaped illuminated neputa floats paraded through the castle town.

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Aug12027

Kusatsu Onsen Thanksgiving Festival

Kusatsu, Gunma · Festivals · Sun 01 to Tue 03 Aug 2027

Three days of thanks to the hot springs at Kusatsu's Yubatake, with a ritual drawing of the spring water.

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Aug12027

Morioka Sansa Odori

Morioka, Iwate · Festivals · Sun 01 to Wed 04 Aug 2027

Dance parade in Morioka with large groups of dancers, flute players and taiko drummers on Chuo-dori.

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Aug22027

Aomori Nebuta Matsuri

Aomori, Aomori · Festivals · Mon 02 to Sat 07 Aug 2027

Summer festival in Aomori City with large illuminated nebuta floats paraded through the streets with haneto dancers.

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Aug22027

Minato Mirai Festival in Support of GREEN×EXPO 2027

Yokohama, Kanagawa · Fireworks · Mon 02 Aug 2027

Yokohama's major summer fireworks festival over Yokohama Port in Minato Mirai, the renamed successor to the Minato Mirai Smart Festival, with music and street performances.

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Aug22027

Nagaoka Fireworks

Nagaoka, Niigata · Fireworks · Mon 02 to Tue 03 Aug 2027

Two nights of fireworks over the Shinano River, the centrepiece of the Nagaoka Festival, famous for the Phoenix recovery shell and the giant Shosanshakudama.

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Aug32027

Akita Kanto Matsuri

Akita, Akita · Festivals · Tue 03 to Fri 06 Aug 2027

Summer festival in Akita City where performers balance tall bamboo poles hung with paper lanterns on their palms, foreheads, shoulders and hips.

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Aug32027

Numata Festival

Numata, Gunma · Festivals · Tue 03 to Thu 05 Aug 2027

Numata's great summer float festival, held over three days in early August in the castle town centre.

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Aug52027

Chikugo River Fireworks Festival

Kurume, Fukuoka · Fireworks · Thu 05 Aug 2027

One of Kyushu's largest fireworks displays, launched simultaneously at Kyomachi and Sasayama on the Chikugo River in Kurume.

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Aug52027

Yamagata Hanagasa Matsuri

Yamagata, Yamagata · Festivals · Thu 05 to Sat 07 Aug 2027

Evening dance parade in Yamagata City with dancers holding hats decorated with safflowers.

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Aug62027

Fukushima Waraji Festival

Fukushima, Fukushima · Festivals · Fri 06 to Sun 08 Aug 2027

Fukushima's summer festival, where Japan's largest straw sandal, 12 metres long and weighing two tons, is paraded and danced through the city centre.

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Aug62027

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony

Hiroshima, Hiroshima · Religious · Fri 06 Aug 2027

The annual 6 August ceremony marking the atomic bombing, with a minute's silence at 08:15, the Peace Declaration and the Peace Bell; attended by the UN Secretary-General and national leaders.

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Aug62027

Oita Tanabata Festival

Oita, Oita · Festivals · Fri 06 to Sat 07 Aug 2027

One of Oita's largest festivals, with the Funai Pacchin illuminated float parade through the city centre.

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Aug62027

Sendai Tanabata Matsuri

Sendai, Miyagi · Festivals · Fri 06 to Sun 08 Aug 2027

Tanabata festival in central Sendai with large handmade paper and bamboo decorations hung in the shopping arcades.

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Aug62027

Yamaguchi Tanabata Lantern Festival

Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi · Festivals · Fri 06 to Sat 07 Aug 2027

Some 100,000 red paper lanterns strung on bamboo form glowing tunnels through Yamaguchi's arcades, a 600-year-old Obon tradition from the Ouchi clan era; one of Japan's three great fire festivals.

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Aug72027

Edogawa Fireworks Festival

Tokyo, Tokyo · Fireworks · Sat 07 Aug 2027

Fireworks display over the Edogawa River in Edogawa, held jointly with Ichikawa City across the river in Chiba.

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Aug72027

Itabashi Fireworks Festival

Tokyo, Tokyo · Fireworks · Sat 07 Aug 2027

Fireworks display over the Arakawa River in Itabashi, held at the same time as the Todabashi display across the river.

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Aug72027

Matsue Suigosai Fireworks Festival

Matsue, Shimane · Fireworks · Sat 07 to Sun 08 Aug 2027

Two evenings of fireworks and a drone show over Lake Shinji, one of Japan's leading lake fireworks displays.

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Aug72027

Shinmei Fireworks

Ichikawamisato, Yamanashi · Fireworks · Sat 07 Aug 2027

About 20,000 fireworks over the Fuefuki River in Ichikawamisato, the largest fireworks display in Yamanashi Prefecture.

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Aug72027

Yonago Gaina Festival

Yonago, Tottori · Festivals · Sat 07 to Sun 08 Aug 2027

Yonago's main summer festival of towering lantern poles, taiko and fireworks over Lake Nakaumi.

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Aug82027

Lake Biwa Great Fireworks Festival

Otsu, Shiga · Fireworks · Sun 08 Aug 2027

Around 10,000 fireworks launched over Lake Biwa from barges off Otsu Port, Kansai's biggest summer display.

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Aug92027

Kochi Yosakoi Festival

Kochi, Kochi · Festivals · Mon 09 to Thu 12 Aug 2027

Kochi's energetic summer dance festival, with teams dancing through the city holding naruko wooden clappers.

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Aug92027

Yosakoi Matsuri (74th)

Kochi, Kochi · Festivals · Mon 09 to Thu 12 Aug 2027

Birthplace festival of yosakoi: ~18,000 dancers in 200 teams with naruko clappers parade through Kochi behind sound trucks in choreographed, costume-heavy routines.

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Aug102027

Shirahama Fireworks Festival

Shirahama, Wakayama · Fireworks · Tue 10 Aug 2027

The main Shirahama summer fireworks display of about 3,500 shells over Shirarahama Beach, held every 10 August.

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Aug112027

Mikuni Fireworks Festival

Sakai, Fukui · Fireworks · Wed 11 Aug 2027

Fukui's biggest fireworks display, launched over the sea at Mikuni Sunset Beach each 11 August.

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Aug122027

Awa Odori

Tokushima, Tokushima · Festivals · Thu 12 to Sun 15 Aug 2027

Japan's most famous Bon dance festival, filling central Tokushima with dancing ren troupes every August.

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Aug122027

Sanuki Takamatsu Festival

Takamatsu, Kagawa · Festivals · Thu 12 to Sat 14 Aug 2027

One of Shikoku's four major festivals, a three day mid-August festival in Takamatsu with a fireworks display over Takamatsu Port.

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Aug122027

Sanuki Takamatsu Festival and Fireworks (Don-Don Takamatsu)

Takamatsu, Kagawa · Festivals · Thu 12 to Sat 14 Aug 2027

Takamatsu's three-day Obon festival: a 6,000-shell fireworks show over the port on 13 August and a mass street dance down Chuo-dori on the final night.

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Aug132027

Kachimai Fireworks Festival

Obihiro, Hokkaido · Fireworks · Fri 13 Aug 2027

Fireworks display on the Tokachi River riverbank in Obihiro, launched from a special venue downstream of Tokachi Ohashi Bridge.

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Aug132027

Kanmon Straits Fireworks Festival

Kitakyushu and Shimonoseki, Fukuoka · Fireworks · Fri 13 Aug 2027

Fireworks launched from both banks of the Kanmon Straits, between Moji in Kitakyushu and Shimonoseki.

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Aug132027

Rising Sun Rock Festival in EZO

Ishikari, Hokkaido · Arts and stage · Fri 13 to Sat 14 Aug 2027

Hokkaido's outdoor rock festival, held on a special stage at Ishikari Bay New Port near Sapporo.

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Aug132027

Summer Sonic Osaka

Suita, Osaka · Arts and stage · Fri 13 to Sun 15 Aug 2027

Osaka edition of Summer Sonic, held at the Expo '70 Commemorative Park in Suita, Osaka.

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Aug132027

Summer Sonic Tokyo

Chiba, Chiba · Arts and stage · Fri 13 to Sun 15 Aug 2027

Tokyo edition of Creativeman's Summer Sonic festival, at ZOZO Marine Stadium and Makuhari Messe in Chiba City.

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Aug132027

Tottori Shan-Shan Matsuri

Tottori, Tottori · Festivals · Fri 13 to Sun 15 Aug 2027

Tottori's largest festival, centred on the Issei Kasa Odori mass umbrella dance by about 4,000 dancers with bell-hung paper umbrellas.

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Aug142027

Comic Market 110 (Summer Comiket)

Tokyo, Tokyo · Expo and pop culture · Sat 14 to Sun 15 Aug 2027

Summer edition of Comic Market (Comiket), the world's largest doujinshi fair, at Tokyo Big Sight.

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Aug142027

Jingu Gaien Fireworks Festival

Tokyo, Tokyo · Fireworks · Sat 14 Aug 2027

Ticketed fireworks and live music festival at Meiji Jingu Gaien in Tokyo, with about 10,000 fireworks.

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Aug152027

Lake Suwa Fireworks Festival

Suwa, Nagano · Fireworks · Sun 15 Aug 2027

About 40,000 shells over Lake Suwa in one of Japan's largest single-night fireworks displays.

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Aug152027

Yamaga Toro Lantern Festival

Yamaga, Kumamoto · Festivals · Sun 15 to Mon 16 Aug 2027

A thousand women dance with gold paper lanterns on their heads through Yamaga on 15 and 16 August.

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Aug162027

Gozan no Okuribi

Kyoto, Kyoto · Religious · Mon 16 Aug 2027

Five giant bonfires in the shape of characters and symbols are lit on the mountains around Kyoto on the night of 16 August.

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Aug162027

Kyoto Gozan Okuribi (Daimonji bonfires)

Kyoto, Kyoto · Festivals · Mon 16 Aug 2027

Five giant characters and shapes are burned on the hills at five-minute intervals from 20:00 to send off the ancestral spirits at the end of Obon, the quiet, solemn close of Kyoto's summer.

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Aug172027

Kumano Grand Fireworks Festival

Kumano, Mie · Fireworks · Tue 17 Aug 2027

Some 10,000 shells over Shichirimihama Beach, with shells detonated on the sea surface and echoing off the Onigajo cliffs.

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Aug202027

WILD BUNCH FEST. 2027

Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi · Arts and stage · Fri 20 to Sun 22 Aug 2027

The Chugoku region's biggest outdoor rock festival, a three-day beach-park event with Japan's top rock and pop acts and a closing fireworks each night.

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Aug212027

Akagawa Fireworks Festival

Tsuruoka, Yamagata · Fireworks · Sat 21 Aug 2027

A design fireworks competition on the Akagawa riverbed in Tsuruoka, where pyrotechnicians from across Japan compete.

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Aug222027

Okayama Momotaro Festival (Uraja)

Okayama, Okayama · Festivals · Sun 22 to Mon 23 Aug 2027

Okayama's great summer dance festival, where teams in demon Ura make-up perform the Uraja dance across the city.

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Aug272027

Animelo Summer Live

Saitama, Saitama · Arts and stage · Fri 27 to Sun 29 Aug 2027

The world's largest anime song festival, expected to return to Saitama Super Arena in 2027.

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Aug272027

Sweet Love Shower

Yamanakako, Yamanashi · Arts and stage · Fri 27 to Sun 29 Aug 2027

Three-day outdoor festival by Lake Yamanaka in Yamanashi, organised by Space Shower TV.

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Aug282027

Omagari Fireworks (National Fireworks Competition)

Daisen, Akita · Fireworks · Sat 28 Aug 2027

Japan's national fireworks competition, where pyrotechnic companies from across the country compete on the Omono River at Omagari.

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Aug282027

Usuki Stone Buddha Fire Festival

Usuki, Oita · Religious · Sat 28 Aug 2027

Torchlight festival at the National Treasure Usuki Stone Buddhas, held on the last Saturday of August.

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Aug292027

Hokkaido Marathon

Sapporo, Hokkaido · Sport · Sun 29 Aug 2027

Japan's major summer marathon, run through central Sapporo partly on the Tokyo 2020 Olympic marathon course, with around 20,000 runners.

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