Festivals, exhibitions, pop-ups, and seasonal happenings across all nine regions.
Chagu Chagu Umakko Festival, held in June in Iwate Prefecture, honors working horses through decoration, reflecting the region's heritage as a center for horse breeding and agriculture.
14 Jun 2027Iwate · TohokuYOSAKOI Soran Festival blends Hokkaido's Soran Bushi folk song with dance and hand-held clappers, drawing hundreds of teams and millions of spectators to Sapporo each June.
10–14 Jun 2027Hokkaido · HokkaidoSanno Matsuri, held annually in June at Hie Shrine, ranks among Japan's three great festivals and was historically viewed by Tokugawa shoguns, earning the title Festival of the Realm.
7–17 Jun 2027Tokyo · KantoA festival spanning over 260 years celebrates its origins in 1742 when commoners were permitted to attend a shrine ceremony in summer kimono.
20–21 Jun 2027Hyogo · KansaiA week-long festival in central Kawasaki where two great mikoshi act out a divine marriage, pregnancy, and birth across the city's streets.
19–21 Jun 2027Kanagawa · KantoA shopping complex's summer event now aligns with the Sanno Shrine Festival, featuring portable shrine processions and sacred rites amid Mediterranean streets and food stalls.
19–21 Jun 2027Kanagawa · KantoMajor LGBTQ+ celebration and parade held in June at Yoyogi Park, attracting record numbers of supporters from domestic and international companies.
6–22 Jun 2027Tokyo · KantoA scenic park showcases 150,000 lilies in bloom each June, transforming into an illuminated landscape as evening falls.
1–30 Jun 2027Fukui · ChubuA 1,400-year-old temple festival honors a Buddhist deity associated with love and good fortune through public celebrations and sacred displays.
30 Jun – 2 Jul 2027Osaka · KansaiIlluminated lanterns parade through coastal Ushitsu in a celebration rooted in legend, featuring frenzied rituals to honor spiritual protection from epidemics.
3–4 Jul 2027Ishikawa · ChubuThis agricultural ritual held in rice paddies since 1881 celebrates the completion of planting through symbolic mud-covered performances invoking divine blessing for harvest.
5 Jul 2027Ehime · ShikokuThe 74th edition of a summer festival known for elaborate street decorations and featuring the Tanabata Dance Thousand-Person Parade on its opening day.
3–5 Jul 2027Kanagawa · KantoEvery July in Sawara, ten seven-metre floats crowned with giant dolls are spun through the streets of a preserved Edo-period merchant town, grazing the eaves.
10–12 Jul 2027Chiba · KantoOne of Osaka's three great summer festivals features a grand procession from the shrine to Osaka Castle with gold and silver portable shrines.
11–12 Jul 2027Osaka · KansaiOne of Japan's three great fire festivals, where giant torches purify the path to Nachi Waterfall at a sacred Kumano shrine each 14 July.
14 Jul 2027Wakayama · KansaiTeams parade towering floats through Fukuoka in this seven-century-old festival, competing to navigate the course fastest while traditional music and crowds fill the streets.
1–15 Jul 2027Fukuoka · KyushuCoastal festival where young men shoulder ornate floats representing lovers and wade into the sea before Benten Island as fireworks burst overhead and ceremonial fires illuminate.
19 Jul 2027Ishikawa · ChubuEvery July at the tip of the Boso Peninsula, close to a hundred diving women in white carry burning torches into the dark sea beneath the Nojimazaki lighthouse.
18–19 Jul 2027Chiba · Kanto
