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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.
One of Kagoshima's three major events, featuring a warrior procession, offerings of local folk performing arts, a local products fair and an athletic tournament centered on martial arts. The warrior procession's shrine visits start at 17:25 on the 24th and 13:30 on the 25th.
A festival centred on the So-odori mass dance, in which dance groups move along the tram street to folk songs such as "Ohara-bushi". The Night Festival on the 2nd starts at 18:50 and the Main Festival on the 3rd at 10:20; the dance zone covers about 1,480 m from Takamibaba to Sanbashi-dori.