The Kiryu Yagibushi Festival is a lively summer event held each August in Kiryu City, centred on Yagibushi folk song and dance, with street parades, live music, and cultural programmes.
Kiryu · 7–9 Aug 2026
A tiny railway at the eastern edge of Chiba, kept running by the rice crackers it sells – twenty minutes from the town to the Pacific, past cabbage fields.
Choshi
One of western Tokyo's biggest summer festivals, where Japan's Tanabata star festival meets American base-town culture in a street of dazzling decorations.
Fussa · 7–9 Aug 2026
A hillside park in Chiba – despite the name, neither in Tokyo nor especially German – where flower fields, small rides and pick-your-own crops fill the slopes.
Sodegaura
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Reference rates · 2026/08/07
The Kiryu Yagibushi Festival is a lively summer event held each August in Kiryu City, centred on Yagibushi folk song and dance, with street parades, live music, and cultural programmes.
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Kimitsu · Chiba
