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All Festival 49 Market 19 Gathering 11 Residency 7 Workshop 5 Community 2
All regions Hokkaido 2 Tohoku 18 Kanto 14 Chubu 16 Kinki 20 Chugoku 7 Shikoku 1 Kyushu 9 Okinawa 3 Other 3
July 2026 2 events
07/11–09/01
Festival Chubu
Gujo Odori
Hachiman, Gujo, Gifu
Every summer evening from July 11 to September 5 — thirty-one nights in all — music rises from the streets of Gujo Hachi
07/25–07/25
Festival Chubu
Abekawa Fireworks Festival
Abe River banks, Aoi-ku, Shizuoka
The fireworks began as a memorial. In Shizuoka, the Abekawa Fireworks Festival sends around fifteen thousand shells over
September 2026 1 events
09/01–09/03
Festival Chubu
Owara Kaze no Bon
Yatsuo, Toyama City, Toyama
Every year, for three nights in early September, the sloping lanes of Yatsuo are given over to sound and slow movement.
October 2026 1 events
10/09–10/10
Festival Chubu
Takayama Autumn Festival (Hachiman Matsuri)
519 Hachimancho, Takayama, Gifu (Sakurayama Hachimangu)
In the same town, the same floats bring a different season. Alongside the spring Sanno Festival, this autumn celebration
December 2026 1 events
12/05–12/05
Festival Chubu
Aenokoto Ritual of Oku-Noto
Farmhouses across the Oku-Noto region, Ishikawa
An invisible god is invited into the home and treated as an honored guest. In the farmhouses of Oku-Noto, the Aenokoto r
April 2028 1 events
04/01–05/31
Festival Chubu
Onbashira Festival
Suwa Taisha Kamisha Honmiya and others, Suwa, Nagano
Men ride a giant log down a mountainside. Held once every six years at the Suwa Grand Shrine, the Onbashira Festival inv
April 2026 1 events
04/14–04/15
Festival Chubu
Takayama Spring Festival (Sanno Matsuri)
156 Shiroyama, Takayama, Gifu (Hie Shrine)
Edo-period mechanical puppets still move today. The Sanno Festival announces spring in the old castle town of Takayama,
May 2026 1 events
05/30–05/31
Market Chubu
Craft Fair Matsumoto
Agata-no-Mori Park, Arigasaki, Matsumoto, Nagano
Making things, celebrated by a whole town. In Matsumoto, Nagano, at Agata-no-Mori Park, on the last weekend of May, Craf
Year-round
Daily
Market Chubu
Jinya-mae Morning Market
岐阜県高山市八軒町1-5
Every morning, farmers come down from the mountain villages and set up their stalls in front of a government house that
Daily
Community Chubu
Miyagawa Morning Market
Miyagawa riverside (Kajibashi to Yayoibashi), Shimosan-no-machi, Takayama, Gifu
White canvas stalls line the east bank of the Miyagawa River for seven hundred meters, from Kajibashi bridge to Yayoibas
Daily
Market Chubu
Omicho Market
50 Kami-Omichocho, Kanazawa, Ishikawa
Locals call it Omicho. The market opened in 1721, during the era of the Kaga domain, when a fire destroyed several mark
Year-round
Gathering Chubu
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale
Tokamachi, Niigata (Echigo-Tsumari region)
Echigo-Tsumari sits in the mountains along the border of Niigata and Nagano prefectures — a region of extraordinary snow
Daily
Festival Chubu
Ojiya Bullfighting (Ushi no Tsukiai)
Ojiya Bullfighting Arena, Oguriyama, Ojiya, Niigata
There is no winner. Every bout ends in a draw. In the mountains of Echigo, a tradition said to be nearly a thousand year
Daily
Gathering Chubu
Northern Alps Art Festival
Omachi and the surrounding hills and lakes, Nagano
In a town raised by snowmelt, you look at art. Omachi in Nagano sits right at the foot of the Northern Alps, peaks of th
Daily
Residency Chubu
Nanmoku Mountain Village Study Program
Nanmoku, Kanra District, Gunma
From the most aged village in Japan. Nanmoku in Gunma is said to have one of the highest proportions of elderly resident
Daily
Residency Chubu
Hida-Furukawa Artisan Town Stay
Furukawa, Hida, Gifu
In a town where carp swim, you face the wood. Hida-Furukawa in Gifu has rows of white-walled storehouses, and hundreds o