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JAPANESE FESTIVALS & SEASONAL EVENTS
Make Japan's festivals the reason for your trip.
Portable shrines, festival floats, dance and prayer. We introduce fireworks festivals and seasonal events, centred on the festivals that communities have handed down.About the 2027 and 2026 information
For 2027, we list as basic dates the festivals whose fixed annual dates can be confirmed on their official websites. Individual events, viewing seats and traffic restrictions may not have been announced yet, so be sure to check the official information. For 2026, we list event information that has been officially announced.
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2 festivals, 0 fireworks festivals · as of 2026-10-11 Japan time
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Japanese festivals
Rites and traditional events that carry on each area's history, faith and way of life.
The autumn grand festival of Matsubara Hachiman Shrine in Shirahama, in which the yatai floats and mikoshi of the seven former villages clash against one another. For the Yoimiya eve on the 14th, the Higashiyama yatai is scheduled to arrive in front of the shrine at 11:00.
An event that lights up the area from in front of Himeji Station along Otemae-dori to the surroundings of Himeji Castle with about 510,000 LEDs. The lights are scheduled to be on from 17:00 to 22:00, and a lighting ceremony is held in front of the station on the first day, November 20.