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Nagoya Ramen Festival

The Tokai region's largest ramen festival features 30 restaurants showcasing regional bowls and specialty dishes from February onward.

Nagoya · 3–23 Feb 2027

Museum · Aichi · Chubu

Yokoyama Art Museum

A Nagoya museum of Japanese export ceramics, with more than 5,000 pieces made for overseas markets in the Meiji and Taisho eras and later brought back to Japan.

Nagoya

Festival · Aichi · Chubu

Hadaka Matsuri

Historic purification festival where nearly-naked men engage in a spirited struggle to touch the selected Naoi-nin, symbolizing the cleansing of misfortune.

Inazawa · 1 Mar 2027

Museum · Aichi · Chubu

Nagoya Touken World

A Nagoya museum of Japanese swords, samurai armor and ukiyo-e, opened in 2024, with a collection of about 500 swords that includes a National Treasure tanto.

Nagoya

Nagoya

Food Fair

Nagoya Ramen Festival

The Tokai region's largest ramen festival features 30 restaurants showcasing regional bowls and specialty dishes from February onward.

3–23 Feb 2027Exact date not confirmed yetNagoya · Aichi

Festival

Hadaka Matsuri

Historic purification festival where nearly-naked men engage in a spirited struggle to touch the selected Naoi-nin, symbolizing the cleansing of misfortune.

1 Mar 2027Exact date not confirmed yetInazawa · Aichi

Festival

Harvest Festival

A spring fertility rite centered on a symbolic wooden offering, with portable shrine processions and prayers for good harvests and future generations.

15 Mar 2027Komaki · Aichi

Festival

Inuyama Festival

Historic shrine festival featuring thirteen elaborate floats equipped with mechanical puppets performing traditional ceremonies on the first weekend of April.

4–5 Apr 2027Exact date not confirmed yetInuyama · Aichi

Market

Hakubutsu Mania

A two-day spring fair of natural science in Nagoya, where fossil and mineral dealers and creators of science-themed goods fill around 160 booths.

10–11 Apr 2027Nagoya · Aichi

Festival

Ono Festival

A traditional spring festival held over two days features three decorated floats and karakuri puppets, with origins dating to the Edo period.

3–4 May 2027Tokoname · Aichi

Festival

Toyohashi Gion Festival

Held annually in Toyohashi, Aichi, the Gion Festival combines tezutsu hand-held fireworks with the Yoritomo Procession, and dates back to the Edo period.

17–19 Jul 2027Exact date not confirmed yetToyohashi · Aichi

Food Fair

SAKAE SAKE SQUARE

A three-day festival in Nagoya with over 140 sake labels from 50 breweries, pouring Aichi and Gifu summer sake neat, on the rocks or as highballs.

18–20 Jul 2027Exact date not confirmed yetNagoya · Aichi

Festival

Tenno Matsuri

A 600-year-old river festival in Tsushima, Aichi, each July: lantern-lit boats float down the Tenno River to flute music, honouring the deity Gozu Tenno.

25–26 Jul 2027Exact date not confirmed yetTsushima · Aichi

Expo & Convention

World Cosplay Summit

Since 2003, teams from around forty countries have met in Nagoya each year to compete in handmade costumes and stage performance for the Grand Champion title.

12–14 Nov 2027Nagoya · Aichi

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Museum

Yokoyama Art Museum

A Nagoya museum of Japanese export ceramics, with more than 5,000 pieces made for overseas markets in the Meiji and Taisho eras and later brought back to Japan.

Nagoya · Aichi

Museum

Nagoya Touken World

A Nagoya museum of Japanese swords, samurai armor and ukiyo-e, opened in 2024, with a collection of about 500 swords that includes a National Treasure tanto.

Nagoya · Aichi

Interactive Experience

Unko Museum Nagoya

An indoor attraction in Nagoya built around cute poop, with a poop volcano, a glowing path of poop and games from throwing poop to a ride-on cart.

Nagoya · Aichi

Shrine

Tsushima Shrine

Aichi head shrine of about 3,000 Tsushima shrines across Japan, honouring the deities Gozutenno and Susanoo, with legendary origins in the 3rd century BCE.

Tsushima · Aichi

Shrine

Owari Okunitama Shrine

Inazawa shrine that is the guardian of Owari Province, enshrining the land spirit revered for protecting agriculture and commerce since the Nara period.

Inazawa · Aichi

Temple

Daiju-ji

Pure Land Buddhist temple in Okazaki, founded in 1475 by Matsudaira Chikayoshi to honour the war dead, and the ancestral temple of the Tokugawa shoguns.

Okazaki · Aichi

Shrine

Atsuta Shrine

A highly revered Nagoya shrine established during Emperor Keiko's reign, it houses the Kusanagi no Tsurugi, one of the three symbols of the Imperial throne.

Nagoya · Aichi

Museum

Meiji-mura

An open-air museum in Aichi preserving over 60 buildings from Japan's Meiji, Taisho, and early Showa periods, including Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel.

Inuyama · Aichi

Shrine

Tagata Shrine

This shrine dedicated to fertility and agricultural prosperity enshrines deities rooted in Japan's ancient traditions of harvest blessing and family well-being.

Komaki · Aichi

Temple

Toyokawa Inari

Soto Zen temple founded in 1441, known for its guardian deity Inari, who blends Buddhist and Shinto traditions and is linked to fertility and trade.

Toyokawa · Aichi

Castle

Nagoya Castle

Castle constructed in 1612 as the center of a major Edo-era post station, destroyed in World War II bombing but reconstructed since 1957.

Nagoya · Aichi

Museum

Tokugawa Art Museum

Opened in 1935, the museum holds over 10,000 works of the Owari Tokugawa family, including nine National Treasures and the Tale of Genji Illustrated Scrolls.

Nagoya · Aichi

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