Festivals, exhibitions, pop-ups, and seasonal happenings across all nine regions.
By month: October 2026, November 2026, December 2026, January 2027
With a record 2,264 dealer groups, this world-renowned festival showcases garage kits, dolls, sculptures, and original artworks from professionals and amateurs.
8 Feb 2027Exact date not confirmed yetChibaA food fair given over to sweet potatoes, with roasted sweet potato shops from across Japan, sweets, a vote for the best yaki-imo and a growers' contest.
9–14 Feb 2027ChibaTraditional hina dolls and intricately crafted miniature furnishings reveal the artistry and cultural significance of this centuries-old celebration.
30 Jan – 15 Feb 2027Exact date not confirmed yetYokohama · KanagawaA winter festival in Yokohama celebrates the legacy of a historic plum grove, with around 100 trees blooming at Myohoji Temple, reviving centuries of tradition.
14–15 Feb 2027Exact date not confirmed yetYokohama · KanagawaHundreds of small snow huts, each holding a candle, light up the riverbed at Yunishigawa Onsen, a mountain hot spring village tied to Heike clan legends.
29 Jan – 28 Feb 2027Nikko · TochigiA festival celebrating Chofu's cinematic heritage since 1933 connects audiences with the city's continued cluster of film and media companies.
6 Feb – 1 Mar 2027Exact date not confirmed yetChofu · TokyoA winter festival at the Red Brick Warehouse in Yokohama celebrating Japan's regional strawberry varieties, with 45 vendors selling themed sweets and goods.
5 Feb – 1 Mar 2027Exact date not confirmed yetYokohama · KanagawaEvery spring the town of Katsuura in Chiba sets out 10,000 hina dolls down shrine staircases, under temple gates, and through the shops and streets between.
1 Feb – 3 Mar 2027Exact date not confirmed yetKatsuura · ChibaThe first large exhibition devoted to the game UNDERTALE, supervised by its maker Toby Fox, opening in Ikebukuro before it travels on to Osaka.
19 Feb – 10 Mar 2027TokyoSpring illumination event at historic garden featuring projection-mapped poetry on bamboo stalks, colored plum groves, and a mystical anime collaboration.
13 Feb – 15 Mar 2027Exact date not confirmed yetMito · IbarakiTokyo's largest creative festival spans nine urban areas during cherry blossom season, with fashion, design, art and technology programming across the city.
13–22 Mar 2027Exact date not confirmed yetTokyoA plum blossom festival in Ome's Yoshino Baigo, a plum village replanted from 2016 after plum pox, with Umeno Park as its main venue.
21 Feb – 22 Mar 2027Exact date not confirmed yetOme · TokyoA spring convention for Japanese animation, with studio and publisher booths, stage talks by voice actors and creators, event-only goods and cosplay.
27–28 Mar 2027TokyoSAKE PARK gathers sake breweries, tableware makers and florists at Tokyo Midtown in cherry blossom season, presenting sake as part of everyday life.
27–29 Mar 2027Exact date not confirmed yetTokyoJapan's premier itasha festival gathers approximately 1,000 character-wrapped vehicles and cosplayers for displays, live entertainment, and awards at Odaiba.
29 Mar 2027Exact date not confirmed yetTokyoA wooden building of 1935 in Meguro, Tokyo, with seven decorated banquet rooms up a staircase of 99 steps, opened for six months with almost nothing in it.
1 Oct 2026 – 30 Mar 2027TokyoAn immersive show on Claude Monet and the ukiyo-e prints that inspired him, projected in a vast former warehouse on Yamashita Pier in Yokohama.
24 Oct 2026 – 31 Mar 2027Yokohama · KanagawaAn exhibition in Tokyo for the 25th anniversary of the Kingdom Hearts games, with Keyblade replicas, sets from the games and an immersive theatre.
5 Feb – 4 Apr 2027Tokyo
