KAWAII MONSTER HALLOWEEN 2026
A month of Halloween shows, costume contests and themed food at KAWAII MONSTER LAND in Harajuku, bringing back the KAWAII MONSTER CAFE Halloween of 2015.
Special event nights on 2026/10/10, 10/17, 10/24, 10/30 and 10/31 run 19:30 to 22:30, from 18:30 on 10/31. Regular opening hours differ on those days.
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原宿Chiyoda Line · Fukutoshin Line · Yamanote Line2 min walk from the station
Gate price from¥2,800Price checked 2026/10/08
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KAWAII MONSTER HALLOWEEN 2026 is a month of Halloween shows, costume contests and seasonal food at KAWAII MONSTER LAND – HARAJUKU, an entertainment venue beneath Takeshita Street in Harajuku, Tokyo. GENDA GiGO Entertainment, which runs the venue, organizes it together with ASOBISYSTEM.
The event revives a Halloween first held in 2015 at KAWAII MONSTER CAFE, the earlier Harajuku venue under the same name. Its events that year included the CLUB NIGHTMARE HALLOWEEN PARTY. Guests came in costumes and fashion of their own choosing, took photos inside the cafe's KAWAII setting and used the night to show their own style. Eleven years later, that Halloween returns in an updated form at KAWAII MONSTER LAND, the newer venue that carries on the KAWAII MONSTER name.
The program runs for the whole season under the name KAWAII MONSTER HALLOWEEN MONTH. It is not held on one night only. During normal opening hours the venue is decorated for Halloween. There are photo spots and Halloween shows by the MONSTER GIRL performers. A limited menu of Halloween food, sweets, cocktails and mocktails is served. The organizers describe it as a Halloween that visitors take part in, not one they only watch.
Five evenings are given over to special events with showcases and DJ sets, each built around a theme taken from Harajuku fashion and culture. Yokubari KAWAII NIGHT, yokubari meaning greedy, takes in every kind of kawaii at once, from lolita to decora, the Harajuku style of layered, brightly colored accessories. HARAJUKU GALA has high fashion as its theme. THE HALLOWEEN MONSTER turns darker, toward horror and thrillers. On HALLOWEEN EVE, the night before Halloween, guests are changed by Halloween makeup before the main night. Guests in costume walk a runway and take part in photo sessions, and snapshots are taken of visitors throughout.
At the center of the month is the Halloween Fashion Grand Prix, a contest open to visitors. It ends on Halloween night with the GRAND FINALE, the last of the five special nights, when MONSTER GIRL and the other performers of the month come together. That night has a special Halloween live show by MONSTER GIRL, a runway by the finalists, judging and an awards ceremony. The awards include BEST MONSTER, BEST KAWAII and BEST HARAJUKU, and they are meant to honor each entrant's own fashion and self-expression.
The Halloween menu is colorful and a little eerie, and eyes turn up again and again. French fries come with dips in five monster colors, to be mixed freely. A pizza of colored cheese and taco meat has a monster's eyeball staring up from it. One burger is black, with three large eyes. Another takes the form of Choppy, a kawaii monster said to live at KAWAII MONSTER LAND. The pumpkin frappe sits under a pastel cloud of cotton candy with a spider's web spun across it. For adults there is a melon float made with alcohol, presented as the work of a monster that loves to collect eyeballs.
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