Festivals, exhibitions, pop-ups, and seasonal happenings across all nine regions.
By month: October 2026, November 2026, December 2026, January 2027
An evening celebration on the Rokuroshi Plateau in Fukui features LED sky lanterns against a backdrop of starry skies and fireworks.
7 Mar 2027Exact date not confirmed yetOno · FukuiA 1,200-year-old midwinter festival features bare-chested men competing to ascend to the temple and offer prayers to the protective deity Bishamonten.
7 Mar 2027Exact date not confirmed yetMinamiuonuma · NiigataJapan's largest stationery fair showcasing pens, notebooks, planners, and creative stationery from established brands and innovative makers.
5–8 Mar 2027Exact date not confirmed yetOsakaThis festival celebrates Niigata's renowned sake heritage, offering over 500 types of sake, local cuisine, seminars, and stage performances.
7–8 Mar 2027Exact date not confirmed yetNiigataA Doll's Day celebration in Echizen Ono with hina doll displays at two venues, including a 20-step arrangement at a historic National Cultural Property.
24 Jan – 8 Mar 2027Exact date not confirmed yetOno · FukuiJapan's largest exhibition of bonbai, plum trees artistically cultivated in pots, showing about 90 specimens rotated by blooming stage over 60 days.
10 Jan – 10 Mar 2027Exact date not confirmed yetNagahama · ShigaThe 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 2027TokyoThe winter illumination of central Sapporo, begun in 1981 with about a thousand bulbs in Odori Park and now spread over six venues.
20 Nov 2026 – 14 Mar 2027Sapporo · HokkaidoAn annual seafood festival celebrating locally prized Seki horse mackerel and mackerel, offering sashimi, sushi, and stage performances.
14 Mar 2027Exact date not confirmed yetOitaA spring procession of 22 sake barrel shrines celebrates the completion of new sake and prays for an abundant harvest of the five grains.
15 Mar 2027Takayama · GifuA spring fertility rite centered on a symbolic wooden offering, with portable shrine processions and prayers for good harvests and future generations.
15 Mar 2027Komaki · AichiSpring 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 · IbarakiWinter fireworks displays held on ski slopes throughout the season, creating a unique nocturnal atmosphere distinct from traditional summer shows.
1 Jan – 21 Mar 2027Exact date not confirmed yetYuzawa · NiigataAbout 580 pieces of Old Noritake and Noritake porcelain at the Yokoyama Art Museum in Nagoya, for 150 years since the Morimura brothers founded Morimura-gumi.
23 Oct 2026 – 22 Mar 2027Nagoya · AichiA spring celebration in Nonoichi showcases the camellia, the city's flower, through exhibitions of art, markets, and traditional tea ceremonies.
21–22 Mar 2027Exact date not confirmed yetNonoichi · IshikawaTokyo'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 · TokyoEach spring at Aso Shrine, priests perform the Hifuri Shinji fire-swinging ritual, a mesmerizing ceremony rooted in ancient agricultural tradition.
23 Mar 2027Exact date not confirmed yetAso · Kumamoto
