Oct32026
Nikko Autumn Leaves Season
Colour descends by altitude over six weeks, from Okunikko's lakes to the Toshogu shrine woods.
101 events
What's on in Kanto.
Events across the Kanto region, checked against official sources.
Oct172026
Ashikaga Flower Park Illumination: Flower Fantasy
More than five million bulbs light the 100,000 square metre Ashikaga Flower Park, including a light recreation of its famous great wisteria.
Oct242026
Mount Takao Autumn Leaves Festival
A seven-week autumn festival on Tokyo's favourite mountain, with weekend performances at the cable car base.
Oct242026
SMBC Japan Series 2026
NPB's best-of-seven championship series between the Yokohama DeNA BayStars and the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks.
Oct242026
Tobu Zoo Winter Illumination 2026-2027
Tobu Zoo opens after dark on 65 winter days, with animal light objects, a 50 metre tunnel of light and a music-synced illumination tree.
Oct262026
Tokyo International Film Festival 2026 (39th TIFF)
Japan's largest international film festival screens 204 films over 10 days in central 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.
Oct292026
Showa Kinen Park Autumn Leaves Festival and Night Walk
Golden ginkgo avenues and a lit Japanese garden, with evening opening for the autumn night walk.
Oct292026
Yomiuriland Jewellumination 2026: Growing Light
Yomiuriland's jewel-coloured Jewellumination, designed by Motoko Ishii, runs from late October to early April on the theme 'Growing Light'.
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.
Nov72026
Tsuchiura All-Japan Fireworks Competition
One of Japan's three great fireworks competitions, where makers demonstrate new shells over the Sakura River in Tsuchiura.
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.
Nov142026
Design Festa vol.64
Asia's largest freestyle art event: about 6,500 booths of independent artists, illustrators, craft makers and performers over one weekend, held each May and November.
Nov142026
Sagamiko Illumillion
Sagamiko Illumillion lights the hillside Sagamiko MORI MORI resort with about 6,000,000 bulbs, the largest scale in the Kanto region.
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.
Nov292026
Japan Cup 2026 (G1 horse race)
Japan's premier international invitational turf race over 2,400 m at Tokyo Racecourse, with a purse among the richest in the world and overseas challengers invited each year.
Dec12026
Enoshima Shonan no Hoseki 2026-2027
Enoshima's 'Jewel of Shonan' lights the Samuel Cocking Garden and Sea Candle, and was certified one of Japan's three great illuminations in 2025.
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
Chichibu Night Festival
Annual festival of Chichibu Shrine with six decorated floats paraded through central Chichibu and winter fireworks on the main day.
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.
Dec42026
Yorunoyo
Illumination event across Yokohama's waterfront, with a five-minute city-wide light and music show.
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.
Dec192026
Jump Festa 2027
Shueisha's Jump manga festival at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, with stages, exhibitions and merchandise.
Dec262026
Countdown Japan 26/27
Japan's year-end indoor rock festival at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, closing with the New Year countdown.
Dec272026
Arima Kinen 2026 (Grand Prix, G1)
The fan-voted year-end Grand Prix over 2,500 m, the highest-turnover horse race on earth and Japan's traditional last big sporting event of the year.
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.
Jan12027
Takasaki Daruma Market
New Year market in front of Takasaki Station selling the city's famous red daruma wishing dolls (Takasaki makes 80% of Japan's daruma), with food stalls, stage events and a daruma burning ceremony.
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.
Jan92027
Maebashi Hatsuichi Festival
Maebashi's first market of the year, a daruma doll fair held every 9 January since the 1600s.
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.
Jan292027
Yunishigawa Onsen Kamakura Festival
Hundreds of candle-lit miniature kamakura along the Sawaguchi riverbed in the hot spring town of Yunishigawa, a designated Japan Night View Heritage site.
Feb82027
Yushima Tenjin Plum Festival
Tokyo's classic plum festival, around 300 plum trees at the shrine of the god of learning.
Feb112027
Mito Plum Festival
Plum blossom festival at Kairakuen Garden and Kodokan in Mito, with about 3,000 plum trees of about 100 varieties at Kairakuen.
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.
Apr112027
Kamakura Festival
Kamakura's spring festival at the great Hachimangu shrine, opening with the Shizuka dance and closing with galloping yabusame archers on the shrine approach.
Apr152027
Hitachi Seaside Park Nemophila Season
Season when Miharashi Hill at Hitachi Seaside Park is covered in blue nemophila flowers.
Apr162027
Craft Sake Week at Roppongi Hills
Thirteen days of sake tasting from around 130 breweries at Roppongi Hills Arena.
Apr232027
9th Yokohama Triennale
Japan's longest-running international contemporary art triennale, 124 days under artistic directors Cosmin Costinaș and Inti Guerrero, centred on the Yokohama Museum of Art.
Apr252027
M3 (Music Media-mix Market) Spring
Japan's leading doujin music fair, a one-day market for independent music at Tokyo Ryutsu Center.
Apr282027
World of Coffee Tokyo 2027 and World Barista Championship
The Specialty Coffee Association's trade and consumer expo comes to Japan for the first time, hosting the 2027 World Barista Championship at Tokyo Big Sight over Golden Week.
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.
May152027
Yokohama Triathlon 2027 (T50 World Championship Tour)
Elite triathlon around Yamashita Park, Yokohama's round of the new T50 World Championship Tour.
May172027
Nikko Toshogu Spring Grand Festival (1,000 Samurai Procession)
Re-enactment of the 1617 transfer of Tokugawa Ieyasu's remains: 1,200 men in samurai armour escort three mikoshi down the cedar-lined avenue, preceded the day before by yabusame horseback archery.
May192027
Keyaki Hiroba Spring Beer Festival 2027
Japan's largest craft beer festival, held every spring and autumn under the zelkova trees at Saitama Shintoshin with 50-60 breweries and 300-400 beers; the autumn 2027 edition should follow in mid-September.
May292027
Kamakura Hasedera Hydrangea Season
About 2,500 hydrangeas of 40 varieties on a hillside path above the sea at Kamakura's Hasedera.
Jun122027
Hakone Hydrangea Season and Night Hydrangea Train
Hydrangeas line the climbing mountain railway; a reserved night train runs through illuminated flowers.
Jun182027
Japan Sake Fair 2027 / Annual Japan Sake Awards public tasting
The Japan Sake Brewers Association's national fair with about 1,200 brands from 45 prefectures, plus the once-a-year public tasting of around 400 gold-medal sakes from the Annual Japan Sake Awards.
Jul22027
Shonan Hiratsuka Tanabata Festival
One of Kanto's three great Tanabata festivals, with about 500 bamboo decorations up to 10 m tall, celebrity-themed displays and a parade through the station-front arcades 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.
Aug12027
Kusatsu Onsen Thanksgiving Festival
Three days of thanks to the hot springs at Kusatsu's Yubatake, with a ritual drawing of the spring water.
Aug22027
Minato Mirai Festival in Support of GREEN×EXPO 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.
Aug32027
Numata Festival
Numata's great summer float festival, held over three days in early August in the castle town centre.
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.
Aug132027
Summer Sonic Tokyo
Tokyo edition of Creativeman's Summer Sonic festival, at ZOZO Marine Stadium and Makuhari Messe in Chiba City.
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.
Aug272027
Animelo Summer Live
The world's largest anime song festival, expected to return to Saitama Super Arena in 2027.
Sep112027
Rock in Japan Festival
Large outdoor rock festival at Soga Sports Park in Chiba City, organised by rockin'on.
Sep112027
Showa Kinen Park Cosmos Festival
Over four million cosmos across four flower fields in Tokyo's largest national park.
Sep122027
Aki Grand Sumo Tournament 2027
The September grand sumo tournament: 15 days at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo.
Sep162027
Tokyo Game Show
Video game trade show at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, organised by the Computer Entertainment Supplier's Association (CESA).
Sep182027
Ikaho Festival
Three-day autumn festival in the Ikaho Onsen hot spring town, centred on the Ikaho Shrine grand festival on 19 September.
Sep182027
Ultra Japan
Japanese edition of the Ultra Music Festival electronic dance music event, at Tokyo Odaiba Ultra Park in Koto City, Tokyo.
Sep202027
Kinchakuda Red Spider Lily Festival
Around five million red spider lilies carpet the woodland floor of a river-loop park near Tokyo.
Sep292027
Kinoshita Group Japan Open Tennis Championships 2027 (ATP 500)
Asia's oldest ATP tournament, an ATP 500 at Ariake drawing top-10 players in the week before the Shanghai Masters.
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.
Oct82027
Sawara Grand Festival, Autumn (Suwa Shrine)
Fourteen huge floats topped with 4-metre figures are pulled through the canal-side merchant town of Sawara to Sawara-bayashi music, a 300-year-old UNESCO-listed festival held in July and October.
Oct112027
Hitachi Seaside Park Kochia Season
Season when the kochia bushes on Miharashi Hill at Hitachi Seaside Park turn red.
Oct152027
MotoGP Japanese Grand Prix 2027
Round 18 of the 2027 MotoGP world championship at Mobility Resort Motegi, race day Sunday 17 October.
Oct162027
Kawagoe Matsuri
Festival in Kawagoe's warehouse district with ornate floats and hikkawase musical face-offs between floats.
Oct162027
Nikko Toshogu Autumn Festival (Shuki Taisai)
Autumn grand festival at Nikko Toshogu Shrine with yabusame horseback archery and a procession of about 1,200 participants.
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.