Festivals, exhibitions, pop-ups, and seasonal happenings across all nine regions.
By month: November 2026, December 2026, January 2027, February 2027
The last year of the ramen festival held in Komazawa Olympic Park since 2009, with twelve shops from around the country serving one bowl a ticket.
30 Oct – 3 Nov 2026TokyoA month of Halloween shows, costume contests and themed food at KAWAII MONSTER LAND in Harajuku, bringing back the KAWAII MONSTER CAFE Halloween of 2015.
1 Oct – 3 Nov 2026TokyoFive nights of projection mapping on the main hall and gate of Sensoji in Tokyo, with the temple's closed garden and its hall of ema open alongside.
30 Oct – 3 Nov 2026TokyoHip-hop culture, urban sports, music, and art converge across multiple Ikebukuro venues in this street culture celebration attracting 50,000 visitors.
1–3 Nov 2026TokyoJapan's largest arcade festival, showing the latest in amusement entertainment, with separate programming for industry professionals and public visitors.
6–7 Nov 2026TokyoA special night opening each autumn at the Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum, with its historic buildings softly lit and a candle night.
6–7 Nov 2026Koganei · TokyoAnime Tokyo Station hosts a special exhibition on Fist of the North Star, with production materials and a character quiz.
22 Aug – 8 Nov 2026TokyoJapan's largest itasha and cosplay festival, in Odaiba, with around 1,000 character-wrapped vehicles, live entertainment stages and displays of car culture.
8 Nov 2026TokyoA ramen competition at Okubo Park in Shinjuku, where 64 shops from across Japan take turns over eight phases and visitor votes pick the winner.
10 Oct – 15 Nov 2026TokyoA three-day fair for pens, ink and paper in Tokyo each November, where makers, shops and individual craftsmen sell fountain pens, many of them one-offs.
21–23 Nov 2026TokyoFootraces run in inflatable T-rex costumes, held in parks, on beaches and at local festivals across Japan since 2022, with adult and juvenile classes.
23 Nov 2026TokyoThe yearly flower show of the Ryuseiha school of ikebana in Shibuya, held in three periods, with almost every work changed between them.
19–24 Nov 2026TokyoShunga and ukiyo-e by Utagawa Kunisada and Utagawa Kuniyoshi at the Shinjuku Kabukicho Noh Stage, the fourth Kabukicho shunga show. Ages 18 and over.
3 Oct – 29 Nov 2026TokyoTokyo's highest beer garden sits at 500 meters elevation, serving all-you-can-drink craft beers and buffet fare with city views by day and stargazing at night.
30 May – 29 Nov 2026Hachioji · TokyoThree artists set work through Hibiya Park in Tokyo for two weeks in November, in a programme run by the city alongside its flower and light displays.
13–29 Nov 2026TokyoA display of original manga art marking twenty-five years of BLACK LAGOON.
13 Nov – 6 Dec 2026TokyoAn autumn light-up at Happo-en in Tokyo: orange and red lights on the maples, ginkgo trees and pond of a Japanese garden with about 400 years of history.
27 Nov – 6 Dec 2026TokyoAn autumn light-up of the pond garden at Mejiro Garden in Tokyo, with maples, a sukiya teahouse and lanterns lit after dark, plus concerts and food stalls.
21 Nov – 6 Dec 2026Tokyo
