Tokyo International Film Festival 2026 (39th TIFF)
第39回東京国際映画祭
Japan's largest international film festival screens 204 films over 10 days in central Tokyo.
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第39回東京国際映画祭
Japan's largest international film festival screens 204 films over 10 days in central Tokyo.
少女漫画・インフィニティ 萩尾望都×山岸凉子×大和和紀 三人展
Landmark three-artist exhibition of shojo manga legends Hagio, Yamagishi and Yamato, part of the Art Week Tokyo 2026 institutional programme.
デザイナート・トウキョウ2026
Tokyo's design and art festival fills around 70 venues across the city for 10 days.
東京ラーメンフェスタ
One of Japan's largest ramen events, with 12 ramen shops from across the country serving at Komazawa Olympic Park.
森万里子:燦燦
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.
六本木アートナイト2026
Tokyo's all-night art festival returns, running from 5pm on 31 October to 6am on 1 November 2026.
東京メガイルミ2026-2027
Oi Racecourse's Tokyo Mega Illumi runs its final season in 2026-2027, with the 100 metre Edo cherry blossom tunnel.
歌舞伎座 十一月公演
Kabuki-za's November programme runs 1 to 25 November 2026 with matinee and evening performances.
山梨ヌーボーまつり2026
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.
アートウィーク東京 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.
けやき坂イルミネーション
Roppongi Hills lights its Keyakizaka zelkova avenue with about 970,000 LEDs in the 2026 'SNOW & BLUE' colour scheme.
東京スカイツリータウン ドリームクリスマス2026
Tokyo Skytree Town lights about 400,000 bulbs for its Dream Christmas, in 2026 themed 'STAR LIGHT GOLD'.
ウイスキーフェスティバル2026 in 東京
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.
新宿ミナミルミ
About 275,000 LEDs light six venues around Shinjuku Station's south side, including Southern Terrace and the Suica Penguin plaza.
Four days of international baseball at Tokyo Dome: Japan, South Korea, Chinese Taipei and Australia, with Japan playing Chinese Taipei on 12 November, Korea on 13 November and Australia on 14 November, then the final and third-place game on 15 November.
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.
丸の内イルミネーション
Winter illumination of champagne-gold lights on the street trees of Marunouchi Naka-dori in Tokyo.
バカラ エターナルライツ
Ebisu Garden Place hangs its Baccarat crystal chandelier for the 27th edition of its winter illumination.
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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.
TOKYO SNOW DOME CITY
Tokyo Dome City's 2026 winter illumination, 'TOKYO SNOW DOME CITY', uses over a million lights and a Cinnamoroll collaboration.
MIDTOWN CHRISTMAS 2026
Tokyo Midtown's Midtown Garden becomes 'Midwinter Lights', a snowy forest and aurora scene with floating bubbles, for MIDTOWN CHRISTMAS 2026.
表参道イルミネーション2026
Omotesando's zelkova avenue is expected to light about 900,000 champagne-gold bulbs along 1.1 kilometres for Christmas 2026.
十二月大歌舞伎
The December Grand Kabuki runs 2 to 25 December 2026 in three parts a day.
目黒川みんなのイルミネーション
The Meguro River's 'winter cherry blossoms' are expected to light about 390,000 pink LEDs along 2.2 kilometres between Gotanda and Osaki.
青の洞窟 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.
コミックマーケット
Winter edition of Comic Market (Comiket), the world's largest doujinshi fair, at Tokyo Big Sight.
天皇杯 JFA 第106回全日本サッカー選手権大会 決勝
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.
第103回東京箱根間往復大学駅伝競走
Japan's biggest university relay: 21 teams race Tokyo to Hakone and back over two days, 217.1 km in all.
歌舞伎座 壽初春大歌舞伎
Kabuki-za's January New Year programme is expected to open on 2 January 2027; the programme was not yet announced at verification.
大相撲初場所
The New Year grand sumo tournament: 15 days at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo.
特別展「源氏物語 王朝のかがやき」
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.
トウキョーアートブックフェア2026
The 16th Tokyo Art Book Fair runs at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo over two blocks in January 2027.
湯島天神梅まつり
Tokyo's classic plum festival, around 300 plum trees at the shrine of the god of learning.
東京マラソン
Marathon through central Tokyo from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building to Tokyo Station.
アートフェア東京21
Japan's largest art fair holds its 21st edition at Tokyo International Forum, 11 to 14 March 2027.
ディーヴァ展 私を動かす、その歌声
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.
千代田のさくらまつり 千鳥ヶ淵ライトアップ
About 230 cherry trees over the Imperial Palace moat, lit at night, with rowing boats under the blossom.
アニメジャパン
One of the world's largest anime events, held at Tokyo Big Sight with two public days.
中目黒桜まつり
A weekend festival under about 800 cherry trees arching over the Meguro River canal in Nakameguro.
CRAFT SAKE WEEK at ROPPONGI HILLS
Thirteen days of sake tasting from around 130 breweries at Roppongi Hills Arena.
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Japan's leading doujin music fair, a one-day market for independent music at Tokyo Ryutsu Center.
ワールド・オブ・コーヒー東京2027 / ワールドバリスタチャンピオンシップ
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.
大相撲夏場所
The May grand sumo tournament: 15 days at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo.
神田祭(本祭)
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.
三社祭
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.
日本酒フェア2027(全国新酒鑑評会 公開きき酒会)
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.
TOKYO IDOL FESTIVAL
Three-day idol music festival across stages in Tokyo's Odaiba and Aomi waterfront area.
隅田川花火大会
Fireworks display launched from two sites along the Sumida River in Tokyo, in the Asakusa area.
江戸川区花火大会
Fireworks display over the Edogawa River in Edogawa, held jointly with Ichikawa City across the river in Chiba.
いたばし花火大会
Fireworks display over the Arakawa River in Itabashi, held at the same time as the Todabashi display across the river.
コミックマーケット
Summer edition of Comic Market (Comiket), the world's largest doujinshi fair, at Tokyo Big Sight.
神宮外苑花火大会
Ticketed fireworks and live music festival at Meiji Jingu Gaien in Tokyo, with about 10,000 fireworks.
大相撲秋場所
The September grand sumo tournament: 15 days at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo.
ウルトラ・ジャパン
Japanese edition of the Ultra Music Festival electronic dance music event, at Tokyo Odaiba Ultra Park in Koto City, Tokyo.
木下グループジャパンオープンテニスチャンピオンシップス2027
Asia's oldest ATP tournament, an ATP 500 at Ariake drawing top-10 players in the week before the Shanghai Masters.
世田谷区たまがわ花火大会
Autumn fireworks display over the Tama River at Futako-Tamagawa in Setagaya, held simultaneously with Kawasaki's display across the river.
第40回東京国際映画祭
The 40th, anniversary edition of TIFF is expected in late October 2027; dates not yet announced.
六本木アートナイト2027
The 2027 edition of Tokyo's all-night art festival is expected on the last weekend of October 2027.
高尾山もみじまつり
A seven-week autumn festival on Tokyo's favourite mountain, with weekend performances at the cable car base.
国営昭和記念公園 黄葉・紅葉まつり&秋の夜散歩
Golden ginkgo avenues and a lit Japanese garden, with evening opening for the autumn night walk.
よみうりランド ジュエルミネーション2026
Yomiuriland's jewel-coloured Jewellumination, designed by Motoko Ishii, runs from late October to early April on the theme 'Growing Light'.
第46回ジャパンカップ(GI)
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.
国営昭和記念公園 コスモスまつり
Over four million cosmos across four flower fields in Tokyo's largest national park.