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Sunday · 2026/11/01

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AUD ¥110.5

Market · Kanagawa · Kanto

Iizumi Kannon Daruma Fair

An annual market held in December where visitors purchase traditional daruma dolls representing wishes for health, family unity, and prosperity.

Odawara · 17–18 Dec 2026

Shrine · Kanagawa · Kanto

Keihin Fushimi Inari Shrine

A small, charming Inari shrine in Kawasaki, guarded by 108 stone foxes and ringed with Fuji lava - a postwar branch of Kyoto's Fushimi Inari.

Kawasaki

Expo & Convention · Kanagawa · Kanto

Shiro EXPO

Shiro EXPO is Japan's largest annual castle festival, with specialist talks, regional performances and booths representing castles nationwide.

Yokohama · 19–20 Dec 2026

Park & Garden · Kanagawa · Kanto

Shinshuen

A classical Chinese garden tucked behind Kawasaki Daishi, gifted by the city of Shenyang, with seasonal pavilions and free admission.

Kawasaki

Market

Iizumi Kannon Daruma Fair

An annual market held in December where visitors purchase traditional daruma dolls representing wishes for health, family unity, and prosperity.

17–18 Dec 2026Exact date not confirmed yetOdawara · Kanagawa

Expo & Convention

Shiro EXPO

Shiro EXPO is Japan's largest annual castle festival, with specialist talks, regional performances and booths representing castles nationwide.

19–20 Dec 2026Yokohama · Kanagawa

Market

Enmei-ji Temple Annual Market (Daruma Market)

A year-end market features daruma dolls, traditional symbols of resilience, accompanied by a distinctive soul-insertion ritual using flint sparks.

28 Dec 2026Exact date not confirmed yetMatsuda · Kanagawa

Festival

New Year’s Bonfire (Sagicho-shinji)

Sagicho-shinji burns New Year decorations on January 15 at Tsurugaoka Hachimangu shrine, in a fire believed to purify and bring a good harvest.

15 Jan 2027Exact date not confirmed yetKamakura · Kanagawa

Festival

Oiso Sagicho Festival

A National Important Folk Cultural Property, this Little New Year fire ritual purifies homes and communities through burning traditional new-year decorations.

17 Jan 2027Exact date not confirmed yetOiso · Kanagawa

Exhibition

Yokohama Doll Museum's Hinamatsuri

Traditional 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 · Kanagawa

Festival

The Sugita Plum Festival

A 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 · Kanagawa

Festival

Kanamara Matsuri "Festival of the Steel Phallus"

An annual Shinto festival at Kanayama Shrine in Kawasaki featuring distinctive phallic imagery in decorations and parades while raising funds for HIV research.

5 Apr 2027Exact date not confirmed yetKawasaki · Kanagawa

Expo & Convention

Yokohama Flower & Garden Festival

The Yokohama Flower & Garden Festival shows horticultural heritage through garden displays, rose collections and design installations, plus workshops.

2–4 May 2027Exact date not confirmed yetYokohama · Kanagawa

Festival

Kawasaki Sanno Festival

A week-long festival in central Kawasaki where two great mikoshi act out a divine marriage, pregnancy, and birth across the city's streets.

15–20 Jun 2027Kawasaki · Kanagawa

Festival

CITTA' Festival

A shopping complex's summer event, now held with the Sanno Shrine Festival: portable shrine processions and sacred rites amid Mediterranean streets and stalls.

19–21 Jun 2027Exact date not confirmed yetKawasaki · Kanagawa

Festival

Shonan Hiratsuka Tanabata Festival

A summer festival known for elaborate street decorations, featuring the Tanabata Dance Thousand-Person Parade on its opening day.

3–5 Jul 2027Hiratsuka · Kanagawa

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Area & Points of Interest

Owakudani Kurotamagokan

Shop and viewpoint in Owakudani, Hakone, selling kuro-tamago: eggs boiled black in the valley's sulphurous hot springs, said to extend life by seven years.

Hakone · Kanagawa

Museum

The Hakone Open-Air Museum

Japan's first museum dedicated to sculpture, opened in Hakone, Kanagawa, in 1969, with about 120 works across 70,000 square metres and a Picasso Pavilion.

Hakone · Kanagawa

Museum

Cupnoodles Museum Yokohama

A Yokohama museum on instant noodles and their inventor Momofuku Ando, where visitors design their own Cup Noodle at the My Cup Noodles Factory.

Yokohama · Kanagawa

Museum

Hakone Venetian Glass Museum

Japan's first museum dedicated to Venetian glass, the Hakone Venetian Glass Museum, Sengokuhara, Kanagawa, holds works spanning the 15th to 19th centuries.

Hakone · Kanagawa

Lake

Hakone Sightseeing Cruise

Pirate ship-styled boats crossing Lake Ashi in Hakone, Kanagawa, calling at Togendai, Moto-Hakone and Hakone-machi, with views of Mount Fuji.

Hakone · Kanagawa

Zoo & Wildlife

Hakone-en Aquarium

Aquarium on Lake Ashi, Hakone, Kanagawa. At 723 metres it is the highest aquarium in Japan with a large seawater tank, with a Seal Plaza and penguins.

Hakone · Kanagawa

Museum

British Antique Museum

Museum of British antiques over 100 years old, in a Kengo Kuma building on the approach to Tsurugaoka Hachimangu, with a recreated Sherlock Holmes room.

Kamakura · Kanagawa

Museum

Yokohama Port Museum

Museum of the Port of Yokohama and its history since the port opened, with ship models, a gantry crane simulator and the Yanagihara Ryohei Art Museum.

Yokohama · Kanagawa

Food & Drink

Used Tire Store - Vending Machine Corner

Corner of retro vending machines beside a used tire shop, set up for customers waiting on tire changes and selling goods from Showa era style machines.

Sagamihara · Kanagawa

Museum

Sail Training Ship Nippon Maru

The Nippon Maru is a four-masted training ship built in 1930 that served 54 years and is now a National Important Cultural Property on display in Yokohama.

Yokohama · Kanagawa

Observatory

Yokohama Landmark Tower

A 296 m skyscraper in Yokohama's Minato Mirai district, with the Sky Garden observation floor on the 69th floor and a restored stone dock at its foot.

Yokohama · Kanagawa