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關西共 48 項活動,依日期排列。
灘の酒蔵探訪2026
Autumn-winter campaign across Japan's largest sake-producing district, Nada Gogo, linking 14 brewery museums and shops in four walking courses during the new-sake season.
なばなの里イルミネーション
One of Japan's largest illumination events, with a tunnel of light and a themed LED landscape at a flower park in Nagashima Resort.
神戸イルミナージュ
Kobe Illuminage, in its 17th year, lights the Fruit and Flower Park Osawa on the theme 'Starlight Dream'.
フェスタ・ルーチェ in 和歌山マリーナシティ
Festa Luce recreates a European Christmas town inside Porto Europa at Wakayama Marina City, in its 10th anniversary year.
光の遊園地 ～Flowering Illumination～
Hirakata Park turns into a 'park of light' on winter weekends, with 17 illuminated areas and a new 17 metre floral castle.
小江戸彦根の城まつりパレード
A period-costume parade of nearly 1,000 people through the castle town of Hikone, held every 3 November.
御堂筋イルミネーション2026
Osaka's Midosuji boulevard lights about 4 kilometres of ginkgo trees as a core programme of the Festival of the Lights in Osaka.
Art Collaboration Kyoto 2026
Japan's leading collaborative contemporary art fair, pairing Japanese galleries with international partners (Hauser & Wirth, Jeffrey Deitch and others in 2026) inside Otani Sachio's brutalist conference hall, backed by Kyoto Prefecture.
嵐山もみじ祭
Heian-style boats perform court music and dance on the Oi River under the autumn maples of Arashiyama.
永観堂 秋の寺宝展・ライトアップ
Kyoto's most famous maple temple: about 3,000 maples, a treasure exhibition and night illumination.
伏見の清酒まつり in 大手筋商店街 2026
Fifteen Fushimi breweries (Gekkeikan, Kizakura, Tamanohikari etc.) pour their sake along the covered Otesuji arcade in one of Japan's great sake towns.
明治の森箕面国定公園もみじまつり
Osaka's maple festival: the 2.7 km path to Minoo Falls lit nightly, with music points along the river.
神戸マラソン2026
Marathon for about 20,000 runners from central Kobe along the coast towards Akashi and back.
Himeji大手前通り・姫路城イルミネーション あたら夜
Himeji lights 2.5 kilometres of Otemae-dori and the castle with 510,000 full-colour LEDs in 'Atarayo', directed by Motoko Ishii.
大阪城イルミナージュ
Osaka Castle's Nishinomaru Garden hosts an Illuminage of Sengoku-era light art themed on the unification of Japan.
けやきライトパレード by FeStA LuCe
Wakayama's Keyaki Odori lights 3.5 kilometres and about 500 street trees with over 1,500,000 LEDs for 100 days.
OSAKA光のルネサンス2026
Nakanoshima's OSAKA Hikari no Renaissance fills the City Hall facade and park with light art for 15 days over Christmas.
天穹のアルテミス／Belle Époque
The Moon Troupe's musical Tenku no Artemis and revue Belle Epoque run at Takarazuka Grand Theatre from 12 December 2026 to 24 January 2027.
若草山焼き
The dry grass of Mt Wakakusa above Nara Park is burned in a single line of fire, preceded by fireworks.
神戸ルミナリエ
Italian-designed light sculptures fill central Kobe for ten nights in memory of the 1995 earthquake.
御燈祭
A 1,400-year-old fire festival in which white-clad men race down Kamikura Shrine's 538 stone steps carrying burning torches.
京都マラソン2027
City marathon through Kyoto's streets, from Nishikyogoku athletic park to a finish in front of Heian-jingu Shrine.
北野天満宮 梅花祭
Kyoto's plum festival on 25 February, with an outdoor tea ceremony served by geiko and maiko.
大阪マラソン2027
One of Japan's largest city marathons, finishing inside Osaka Castle Park.
お水取り（修二会）
Two weeks of repentance rites at Todai-ji's Nigatsu-do, famous for giant torches swung from the hall's balcony each night.
東大寺 修二会（お水取り・お松明）
The 1,270-year-old Shuni-e penance rite whose nightly otaimatsu, giant pine torches swung from the Nigatsudo balcony, shower sparks over the crowd.
近江八幡 左義長まつり
Nationally designated folk festival from Oda Nobunaga's Azuchi: huge sagicho torches decorated with sculptures made of dried foods are paraded, crashed together in 'kenka' bouts and burned at 20:00 on the second day.
大相撲春場所
The March grand sumo tournament: 15 days at EDION Arena Osaka.
第99回選抜高等学校野球大会
The spring invitational of 32 top high school teams at the sacred Koshien ground, opening the Japanese baseball year with brass bands and cheering squads.
吉野山の桜
Some 30,000 cherry trees climb Mount Yoshino in four waves, Japan's most famous blossom mountain.
F1日本グランプリ
Round four of the 2027 Formula 1 season at Suzuka Circuit, run as a sprint weekend with the grand prix on Sunday 11 April.
KYOTOGRAPHIE 京都国際写真祭 2027
Kyoto's spring photography festival since 2013, staging international exhibitions in historic buildings normally closed to the public, with the KG+ open-call programme spread over 100+ small venues.
長浜曳山まつり
UNESCO-listed festival where boys aged 5-12 perform kabuki on 400-year-old gilded floats; traced to Hideyoshi's gift celebrating the birth of his son. Coincides with Nagahama's cherry blossom.
葵祭
Imperial procession in Heian-period court dress from the Kyoto Imperial Palace to the Kamo shrines, held on 15 May.
祇園祭
Kyoto's month-long Yasaka Shrine festival, famous for its two Yamaboko float processions on 17 and 24 July.
那智の扇祭り
One of Japan's three great fire festivals: twelve 50kg torches purify the path of fan-shaped portable shrines to Nachi Falls.
伊勢神宮奉納全国花火大会
One of Japan's three great fireworks competitions, where pyrotechnicians selected from across the country dedicate competitive displays over the Miya River at Ise.
田辺祭
Tanabe's Gion festival of Kasahoko floats, held every 24 and 25 July around Tokei Shrine.
天神祭
Osaka's great summer festival at Osaka Tenmangu Shrine, with a river procession and fireworks on the evening of 25 July.
第109回全国高等学校野球選手権大会
The summer national championship for 49 prefectural champions, Japan's most emotional sporting tradition, played in August heat with morning and evening sessions.
びわ湖大花火大会
Around 10,000 fireworks launched over Lake Biwa from barges off Otsu Port, Kansai's biggest summer display.
白浜花火フェスタ
The main Shirahama summer fireworks display of about 3,500 shells over Shirarahama Beach, held every 10 August.
サマーソニック
Osaka edition of Summer Sonic, held at the Expo '70 Commemorative Park in Suita, Osaka.
五山送り火
Five giant bonfires in the shape of characters and symbols are lit on the mountains around Kyoto on the night of 16 August.
京都五山送り火
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.
熊野花火大会
Some 10,000 shells over Shichirimihama Beach, with shells detonated on the sea surface and echoing off the Onigajo cliffs.
岸和田だんじり祭
Teams haul four-tonne wooden danjiri floats at speed through Kishiwada's streets, swinging them around corners.
時代祭
A procession of 2,000 Kyoto citizens in costumes from every era of the city's history, held on 22 October.