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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
September 2026 1 events
Festival Kinki K
09/12–09/13
Kishiwada Danjiri Festival
Kishiki Shrine and throughout the city, Kishiwada, Osaka
They take the corner at full speed. In Kishiwada, Osaka, hundreds of men race wooden floats weighing more than four tons
October 2026 2 events
Festival Kinki N
10/14–10/15
Nada Fighting Festival
Matsubara Hachiman Shrine, Shirahama-cho, Himeji, Hyogo
They smash the shrines together on purpose. In the Nada district of Himeji, three portable shrines are slammed into one
Festival Kinki M
10/15–10/16
Mifune Matsuri (Kumano Hayatama Taisha Grand Festival)
Kumano Hayatama Taisha, Shingu, Wakayama
There is a phrase you hear in Shingu: the river is a pilgrimage road. For a thousand years, emperors and paupers came do
December 2026 1 events
Festival Kinki K
12/15–12/18
Kasuga Wakamiya Onmatsuri
Kasuga Taisha, Nara, Nara
Since 1136, it has not missed a year. Not for wars, not for plagues, not for the collapse of the world that ordered it i
January 2027 2 events
Festival Kinki N
01/09–01/11
Nishinomiya Toka Ebisu
1-17 Shake-cho, Nishinomiya, Hyogo (Nishinomiya Shrine)
You run, and you seize the year's fortune. In Nishinomiya, Hyogo, stands the head shrine of the three thousand Ebisu shr
Festival Kinki N
01/20–02/28
Nada Sake Brewery Open Days
A thin band of land between the sea and the mountains. Nada, in Kobe, is the largest sake-producing district in Japan,
February 2027 1 events
Festival Kinki O
02/06–02/06
Oto Matsuri (Fire Festival of Kamikura Shrine)
Kamikura Shrine, Shingu, Wakayama
For one night in February, the mountain becomes a river of fire. On the 6th, in Shingu, some two thousand men in white,
Year-round
Festival Kinki S
毎年8月第2土曜
Shanshan Festival: Ten Thousand Bells in Tottori
Central Tottori City, Tottori
The sound comes before the sight. Thousands of bells, each attached to a paper umbrella, producing a collective shimmer
Festival Kinki I
通年（舟屋日和などのイベントは季節限定）
Ine Funaya: Houses That Open Directly onto the Sea
Ine Town, Yosa-gun, Kyoto
The funaya of Ine Bay are houses built directly over the water, with their ground floors serving as garages for fishing
Festival Kinki N
2026年8月中旬（例年8月上旬〜中旬）
Naniwa Yodogawa Fireworks Festival
Yodo River, Osaka
The people made this one themselves. The Yodogawa fireworks began in 1989 not as a municipal project but as a grassroots
Festival Kinki H
2026年7月下旬（例年7月）
Himeji Minato Festival Sea Fireworks
Himeji Port, Himeji, Hyogo
This is the sea festival of the city of the white castle. Himeji is crowned by its great fortress—a World Heritage site,
Festival Kinki S
2026年8月10日（例年8月10日前後）
Shirahama Fireworks Festival
Shirarahama Beach, Shirahama, Wakayama
On the white sand, you wait for the fireworks. Shirahama in southern Wakayama has one of the most beautiful beaches in J
Festival Kinki M
2026年8月16日（例年8月16日）
Miyazu Lantern Float Fireworks Festival
Miyazu Bay, Miyazu, Kyoto
Here lanterns and fireworks overlap on the sea. Miyazu Bay is known for Amanohashidate, the pine-covered sandbar counted
Festival Kinki A
2026年8月中旬（阿波おどり前夜・例年8月）
Awa Odori Eve Fireworks Festival
Shinmachi River, Tokushima City
This is the eve of the dancing fools. "The dancers are fools and the watchers are fools," goes the famous chant of the A
Festival Kinki T
2026年8月中旬（例年8月）
Takamatsu Festival Fireworks
Sunport Takamatsu, Takamatsu, Kagawa
Fire opens over the Seto sea. Takamatsu, capital of Kagawa on the island of Shikoku, is a port town facing the Inland Se
Festival Kinki J
毎年10月22日（雨天順延）
Jidai Matsuri: Kyoto Walks Through Eleven Centuries
Kyoto Imperial Palace to Heian Shrine, Kyoto
On October 22nd, Kyoto walks through its own memory. The Jidai Matsuri—the Festival of the Ages—is a procession of some
Festival Kinki K
毎年10月22日
Kurama Fire Festival: A Corridor of Flame North of Kyoto
Around Yuki Shrine, Kurama, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto
On the same night Kyoto's grand costume procession ends, thirty minutes north by mountain railway, a very different cere
Festival Kinki W
毎年1月第4土曜（荒天順延）
Wakakusa Yamayaki: The Night Nara Sets a Mountain on Fire
Mount Wakakusa and Nara Park, Nara
On the fourth Saturday of January, Nara sets a mountain on fire. Wakakusa-yama is the grass-covered hill that rises dire
Festival Kinki M
旧暦3月3日（例年4月上旬〜中旬、年により前後します）
Mochigase Nagashibina (Floating Doll Festival)
Mochigase, Tottori, Tottori
Before hina dolls stood on tiered platforms in family alcoves, they floated. In Mochigase, a former post town on the Sen
Festival Kinki O
毎年3月2日
Omizu-okuri Water-Sending Rite
Jinguji Temple & Unose, Obama, Fukui
Nara's famous Omizu-tori — the water-drawing rite that ends winter at Todai-ji — has a sender, and the sender is here. E
Festival Kinki H
2月下旬〜3月3日
Hiketa Hina Doll Festival
Historic Hiketa townscape, Higashikagawa, Kagawa
At the far eastern edge of Kagawa, where Shikoku faces the narrow strait toward Awaji, the old soy-sauce town of Hiketa
Festival Kinki S
毎年6月17日(16〜18日)
Saikusa Lily Festival
Isagawa Shrine, Nara City, Nara
The flowers arrive by train. On the morning of June 16, some five hundred sasayuri — the small pink wild lilies of Mt. M
Festival Kinki H
9月第2日曜
Hyoge Matsuri (Comic Harvest Parade)
Asano district, Takamatsu, Kagawa
The swords are taro stems with pumpkin hand-guards. The topknots are palm bark; the formal robes are feed sacks. On the
Festival Kinki O
例年2月1日〜5日
Owase Yaya Festival
Owase Shrine area, Kitaura-cho, Owase, Mie
For five nights in early February, the fishing town of Owase — pressed between steep mountains and a deep ria inlet on t
Festival Kinki S
例年2月第3土曜
Saidaiji Eyo Naked Festival
Saidaiji Kannon-in, 3-8-8 Saidaiji-naka, Higashi-ku, Okayama
On the third Saturday of February, thousands of men in loincloths pack the great hall of Saidaiji Kannon-in temple in Ok
Festival Kinki A
例年2月下旬〜4月上旬
Awa Katsuura Big Hina Festival
Doll Culture Hall, 35-1 Tsukinose, Ikuna, Katsuura, Tokushima
Dolls that no longer have a place at home come here from all over the country. Katsuura, a small town in the hills of T