Museums Ikazaki Kite Museum Anonymous The bank of the Oda River in Ikazaki is home to a kite festival, and a museum full of spectacular kites. You can even borrow a kite..
8 Festivals Golden Week in Yamashita Park Shinya Ota Great fun! The Yokohama Parade, Yamashita Park, and vicinity during Golden Week!
20 Festivals Sanja Festival Sher Ying Wee Widely considered as one of the larger and wilder festivals in Tokyo, the Sanja Matsuri attracts massive crowds over a 3 day period...
9 Festivals Itabashi festival Shehzad Lokhandwalla Japan has many street festivals in which a particular area of the city is set up with several attractions like stalls that sell..
Festivals Kurokawa Noh Alena Eckelmann Kurokawa, a small village near the mountains of Dewa Sanzan in Yamagata Prefecture, is preserving a 500-year-old tradition of Noh..
Historical Setsubun at Gokoku-jinja JJ Walsh Setsubun traditions, archery and lucky bean toss event at Hiroshima's Gokoku-jinja annually on Feb 3rd
Historical Nara's Yamayaki Festival Anonymous The Yamayaki festival in Nara dates back to 1760. On the fourth Saturday of January every year, people gather at the base of M..
Festivals Yokohama's Chinese New Year: Day 1 Todd Wojnowski Chinese New Year is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays, and what better place to spend it in Japan than Yokohama..