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Murakami Kaizoku Museum

A museum on Oshima in the Inland Sea about the Murakami, the sea lords who controlled the straits around Imabari in the sixteenth century.

Imabari · Ehime

Exhibition

Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo Exhibition: DIVE INTO THE BO-BOBO WORLD

An exhibition celebrates the absurdist manga Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo through interactive displays showcasing its protagonist's surreal martial arts techniques.

8–24 Jan 2027Osaka

Museum

Ikazaki Kite Museum

A museum in Uchiko, Ehime, devoted to kites from Japan and around the world, in the town that holds a kite battle every May.

Uchiko · Ehime

Exhibition

The 76th Nagahama Bonbai Exhibition

Japan'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 · Shiga

Museum

Railway History Park in Saijo

A railway museum beside Iyo-Saijo station holding an original bullet train car and the diesel locomotive that worked the lines of Shikoku.

Saijo · Ehime

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

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Tokaido Kawasaki Shuku Koryukan

A small, free museum near Kawasaki Station on the history of Kawasaki Shuku, the Edo-period post town on the old Tokaido highway between Edo and Kyoto.

Kawasaki · Kanagawa

Exhibition

KYOTO NIPPON FESTIVAL

Kyoto Nippon Festival fills Kitano Tenmangu shrine with large-scale art installations and immersive dance performance, featuring artist Mika Ninagawa.

1 Feb – 24 May 2027Exact date not confirmed yetKyoto

Museum

NYK Hikawa Maru

A passenger-cargo liner built in 1930 for the Seattle route, a hospital ship in the war and now a museum ship and Important Cultural Property in Yokohama.

Yokohama · Kanagawa

Exhibition

KINGDOM HEARTS 25th ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION

An 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

Museum

Bansei Tokko Peace Museum

A museum in Minamisatsuma on the site of Bansei Airfield, the army's last airfield of WWII, with the letters, photographs and belongings of 201 airmen.

Minamisatsuma · Kagoshima

Exhibition

Hina Doll Festival of the Owari Tokugawa Family

A seasonal tradition showcases rare Hina dolls passed down through the Owari Tokugawa family, dressed in historically accurate court attire.

7 Feb – 5 Apr 2027Exact date not confirmed yetNagoya · Aichi

Area & Points of Interest

Okunoshima (Rabbit Island)

A small island in the Inland Sea with about a thousand wild rabbits on it, which was the Japanese army's poison gas works until 1945.

Takehara · Hiroshima

Exhibition

UNDERTALE MUSEUM Tokyo

The 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 2027Tokyo

Museum

Irifuneyama Memorial Museum

The restored 1905 residence of the commander of the Kure naval district, with rare gilded leather paper on its walls, and a naval arsenal clock tower.

Kure · Hiroshima

Exhibition

Cherry Blossom Viewing at the Tokyo National Museum

Tokyo National Museum's Cherry Blossom Viewing pairs art with garden walks, showing cherry blossom masterpieces while the museum's trees are in bloom.

10 Mar – 5 Apr 2027Exact date not confirmed yetTokyo

Museum

Kamihaga Residence (Wax Museum)

The house and works of a wax-making family in Uchiko, Ehime, kept with its boiling sheds and stores, and now a museum of the trade.

Uchiko · Ehime

Exhibition

UNDERTALE MUSEUM Osaka

The Osaka run of the first exhibition devoted to UNDERTALE, held at the ATC Gallery in Nanko after the Tokyo showing closes.

22 Apr – 9 May 2027Osaka

Museum

Murakami Kaizoku Museum

A museum on Oshima in the Inland Sea about the Murakami, the sea lords who controlled the straits around Imabari in the sixteenth century.

Imabari · Ehime

Exhibition

Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo Exhibition: DIVE INTO THE BO-BOBO WORLD

An exhibition celebrates the absurdist manga Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo through interactive displays showcasing its protagonist's surreal martial arts techniques.

8–24 Jan 2027Osaka

Museum

Ikazaki Kite Museum

A museum in Uchiko, Ehime, devoted to kites from Japan and around the world, in the town that holds a kite battle every May.

Uchiko · Ehime

Exhibition

The 76th Nagahama Bonbai Exhibition

Japan'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 · Shiga

Museum

Railway History Park in Saijo

A railway museum beside Iyo-Saijo station holding an original bullet train car and the diesel locomotive that worked the lines of Shikoku.

Saijo · Ehime

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

Museum

Tokaido Kawasaki Shuku Koryukan

A small, free museum near Kawasaki Station on the history of Kawasaki Shuku, the Edo-period post town on the old Tokaido highway between Edo and Kyoto.

Kawasaki · Kanagawa

Exhibition

KYOTO NIPPON FESTIVAL

Kyoto Nippon Festival fills Kitano Tenmangu shrine with large-scale art installations and immersive dance performance, featuring artist Mika Ninagawa.

1 Feb – 24 May 2027Exact date not confirmed yetKyoto

Museum

NYK Hikawa Maru

A passenger-cargo liner built in 1930 for the Seattle route, a hospital ship in the war and now a museum ship and Important Cultural Property in Yokohama.

Yokohama · Kanagawa

Exhibition

KINGDOM HEARTS 25th ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION

An 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

Museum

Bansei Tokko Peace Museum

A museum in Minamisatsuma on the site of Bansei Airfield, the army's last airfield of WWII, with the letters, photographs and belongings of 201 airmen.

Minamisatsuma · Kagoshima

Exhibition

Hina Doll Festival of the Owari Tokugawa Family

A seasonal tradition showcases rare Hina dolls passed down through the Owari Tokugawa family, dressed in historically accurate court attire.

7 Feb – 5 Apr 2027Exact date not confirmed yetNagoya · Aichi

Area & Points of Interest

Okunoshima (Rabbit Island)

A small island in the Inland Sea with about a thousand wild rabbits on it, which was the Japanese army's poison gas works until 1945.

Takehara · Hiroshima

Exhibition

UNDERTALE MUSEUM Tokyo

The 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 2027Tokyo

Museum

Irifuneyama Memorial Museum

The restored 1905 residence of the commander of the Kure naval district, with rare gilded leather paper on its walls, and a naval arsenal clock tower.

Kure · Hiroshima

Exhibition

Cherry Blossom Viewing at the Tokyo National Museum

Tokyo National Museum's Cherry Blossom Viewing pairs art with garden walks, showing cherry blossom masterpieces while the museum's trees are in bloom.

10 Mar – 5 Apr 2027Exact date not confirmed yetTokyo

Museum

Kamihaga Residence (Wax Museum)

The house and works of a wax-making family in Uchiko, Ehime, kept with its boiling sheds and stores, and now a museum of the trade.

Uchiko · Ehime

Exhibition

UNDERTALE MUSEUM Osaka

The Osaka run of the first exhibition devoted to UNDERTALE, held at the ATC Gallery in Nanko after the Tokyo showing closes.

22 Apr – 9 May 2027Osaka

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