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All Festival 241 Market 45 Gathering 61 Residency 27 Workshop 22 Community 2
All regions Hokkaido 14 Tohoku 67 Kanto 63 Chubu 77 Kinki 64 Chugoku 39 Shikoku 13 Kyushu 47 Okinawa 12 Other 12
August 2026 1 events
Festival Kanto Y
08/26–08/27
Yoshida Fire Festival
5558 Kamiyoshida, Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi
On the evening of August 26, more than seventy torches — each three meters tall — are lit simultaneously along a two-kil
September 2026 3 events
Festival Kanto O
09/18–09/19
Omuro Sengen Shrine Yabusame
Omuro Sengen Shrine, Shimoyoshida, Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi
Yabusame, in the usual telling, is archery from horseback: a rider at full gallop loosing arrows at wooden targets, and
Festival Kanto I
09/19–09/21
Ishioka Matsuri: One of the Kanto's Three Great Festivals
Hitachi-no-kuni Sosha Shrine and city center, Ishioka, Ibaraki
The lions move through the town. In Ishioka, in Ibaraki, a three-day festival rises each September, ending on Respect f
Festival Kanto O
09/23–09/24
Ohara Hadaka Matsuri
Ohara Beach and central Ohara, Isumi, Chiba
Early in the afternoon of September 23rd, on a stretch of grey sand on the Pacific side of the Boso Peninsula, portable
October 2026 1 events
Festival Kanto K
10/17–10/18
Kawagoe Festival
The floats move through a town of storehouses. Kawagoe is sometimes called little Edo, and the name is earned: black-wa
November 2026 1 events
Festival Kanto T
11/07–11/07
Tsuchiura National Fireworks Competition
Sakuragawa Riverside, Tsuchiura, Ibaraki
This is where the makers come to be judged. Since 1925, the finest pyrotechnicians in Japan have gathered on the banks o
December 2026 1 events
Festival Kanto C
12/02–12/03
Chichibu Night Festival
1-3 Banba-cho, Chichibu, Saitama (Chichibu Shrine)
In December, when most festivals have long ended, Chichibu lights its winter sky. This is one of Japan's three great flo
Year-round
Festival Kanto N
毎年4月13〜17日
Nikko Yayoi Festival: Spring Floats of the Sacred Mountain
Futarasan Shrine, Nikko, Tochigi
Nikko is usually encountered through its excess. The Toshogu shrine — built to enshrine the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu — is
Festival Kanto S
毎年7月（本祭）・10月（秋祭）
Sawara Grand Festival: Floats on the Waterway
Suwa Shrine / Yasaka Shrine, Sawara, Katori City, Chiba
The floats barely fit through the streets. This is the defining experience of the Sawara Grand Festival: watching a stru
Festival Kanto O
毎年5月3日
Odawara Hojo Godai Matsuri: Five Generations of Outsider Power
Odawara City, Kanagawa
The Later Hojo clan governed the Kanto region from Odawara for five generations, from the early sixteenth century until
Festival Kanto S
2026年7月25日（土）19:00〜20:30
Sumida River Fireworks Festival
Sumida River, Sumida/Taito, Tokyo
The river remembers. Long before the towers rose along its banks, before the trains and the neon, the Sumida carried boa
Festival Kanto E
2026年8月1日（土）19:15〜20:30
Edogawa Fireworks Festival
Edogawa Riverbank, Edogawa, Tokyo
It begins before you are ready. In the first five seconds, a thousand shells erupt at once—an opening so audacious that
Festival Kanto A
2026年4月〜12月の指定日（年間複数回開催）
Atami Sea Fireworks Festival
Atami Bay, Atami, Shizuoka
The fireworks thunder at the bottom of a bowl. Atami is a hot-spring town wedged between mountains and sea, and its bay
Festival Kanto O
2026年7月下旬〜8月（例年夏季）
Oarai Sea Fireworks Festival
Oarai Sun Beach, Oarai, Ibaraki
Fireworks stand up against the Pacific. Oarai is a seaside town on the Ibaraki coast, and what opens before it is the gr
Festival Kanto T
2026年7月中旬（例年7月）
Tonegawa Grand Fireworks Festival
Tone River, Sakai, Ibaraki
This is the grand stage of Bando Taro. That was the old name for the Tone River—"Bando Taro," the eldest son of the east
Festival Kanto K
2026年10月上旬（例年10月）
Konosu Fireworks Festival
Arakawa Riverbank, Konosu, Saitama
The largest shell in the world rises here. Konosu, on the wide gravel banks of the Arakawa River in Saitama, ends its di
Festival Kanto S
例年7月、七夕の時期に開催。豪華な竹飾りが商店街を埋めます。日程は年により異なります。
Shonan Hiratsuka Tanabata Festival
The sky disappears. At the Shonan Hiratsuka Tanabata, the shopping streets are buried under enormous bamboo decorations
Festival Kanto K
例年8月上旬に開催。八木節の踊りと演奏で町が沸きます。日程は年により異なります。
Kiryu Yagibushi Festival
They beat on barrels. At the Kiryu Yagibushi Festival in August, the whole town rings with yagibushi—empty barrels stru
Festival Kanto N
例年7月上旬の金土日に開催。山車・屋台の総引きなど。日程は年により異なります。
Narita Gion Festival
Floats race up the temple approach. At the Narita Gion Festival in July, ten floats and stalls parade before Naritasan
Festival Kanto A
毎年12月第3日曜
Akutai Matsuri (Festival of Abuse)
102 Izumi, Kasama, Ibaraki
Once a year, on the third Sunday of December, it is not merely permitted but correct to hurl insults at a religious proc
Festival Kanto K
2月下旬〜3月3日
Katsuura Big Hina Festival
Tomisaki Shrine and central Katsuura, Chiba
Every morning during the festival, volunteers in Katsuura carry some 1,800 hina dolls up the sixty stone steps of Tomisa
Festival Kanto I
5月下旬〜6月下旬
Itako Iris Festival
Suigo Itako Ayame Park, Itako, Ibaraki
The bride is real. That is the first thing to understand about Itako's iris festival, held from late May to late June in
Festival Kanto S
毎年3月9日
Saitosai Festival at Kashima Jingu
Kashima Jingu, Kashima, Ibaraki
The sound is the thing you remember: twenty squads of fifteen men in brilliant costume, singing an ancient refrain — iya
Festival Kanto M
3月第2日曜
Mt. Takao Fire-Walking Festival
Yakuoin prayer grounds, Mt. Takao, Hachioji, Tokyo
Most festivals ask you to watch. This one, at the foot of Mt. Takao on the second Sunday of March, ends by inviting you
Festival Kanto O
毎年大晦日夜〜元旦
Oji Fox Parade
Shozoku Inari to Oji Inari Shrine, Kita-ku, Tokyo
There is an old Edo story that on New Year's Eve, foxes from all over the Kanto plain would gather beneath a great hackb
Festival Kanto K
毎年9月13日
Kazusa Junisha Festival (Hadaka Beach Matsuri)
Tamasaki Shrine & Tsurigasaki Beach, Ichinomiya, Chiba
Once a year, a family of gods holds its reunion on a beach. On September 13, at the climax of the Kazusa Junisha Matsuri
Festival Kanto C
例年1月15日
Chakkirako
Kainan Shrine and central Misaki, Miura, Kanagawa
On the fifteenth of January, in the tuna port of Misaki at the tip of the Miura Peninsula, one of the smallest festivals