Japan – Dates & Venues

Fujiyoshida Fire Festival 2025

Eyal — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 20:21:35 +0000

The festival symbols the end of the summer in Japan. The first day of the celebration, the 26th of August, is officially the last day of climbing the Fuji Mountain. The Japanese carry the goddess of the Fuji mountain, that symbols the fire safety, across the streets. It is supposed to look at the fires […]

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Hakozaki Shrine Tamaseseri (Ball-Catching Festival) 2026

Eyal — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 20:23:07 +0000

Once a year, on Jan 3rd, Hakozaki Shrine Tamaseseri (Ball-Catching Festival) is held in Fukuoka. This is a traditional event that exists for more than five hundred years. Group of men wearing loincloth only are struggle on catching a ball. This is a special ball 30 cm (0.98 foot) diameter and eight kg (17.64 Pound) […]

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Bullfinch Exchange Festival (Usokae) 2026

Eyal — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 20:23:16 +0000

Bullfinch Exchange Festival (Usokae) is a traditional event where the believers carry out a ritual struggle between the good and the evil forces. The events are held in Dazaifu Tenmangu shrine in Fukuoka Prefecture. Every year, in January’s evenings, groups of believers gather in the shrine. They carry a wooden carvings of bullfinches (a red […]

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Sapporo Snow Festival 2026

Eyal — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 20:23:01 +0000

Sapporo is located in Hokkaido Island the second in its size in Japan. Sapporo holds, yearly in February, since 1950 one of the most beautiful art events of the winter, the Sapporo Snow Festival. In spite of the fact that snow festivals are held in other Japanese cities, Sapporo festival events are more attractive. It […]

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Nara Todaiji Temple Omizutori Festival 2026

Eyal — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 20:21:35 +0000

Fire and Water festival – Nara Japan The monks of Todaiji Temple are in charge of the spring ritual. Just after midnight 11 chosen monks climb the stairs of the temple with burning torches. As they get closer to the altar they try to catch up with the divine time. The other monks strike on […]

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Tokyo Marathon 2026

Eyal — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 20:22:03 +0000

The Marathon is Japan’s biggest running event. It attracts thousands athletes from Japan as well as from all over the world. The course is particularly amazing with interesting views of the beautiful streets of Tokyo.

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Kanamara Matsuri 2026- Festival of the Steel Phallus

Eyal — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 20:36:07 +0000

Kanamara Matsuri Festival The male steel organ festival, Kanamara Matsuri, is held since 1969 every spring in the Kanayama shrine in the city of Kawasaki in Japan. With all the strangeness and irony of this, according to the tradition of the local Shinto religion, the masculine penis is the main theme of the festival. An […]

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Hana Matsuri (Floral Festival in Japan) 2026

Eyal — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 20:23:05 +0000

The floral Festival of Japan, Hana-Matsuri, is a religious holiday that symbols Buddha’s birthday. The holiday is celebrated, yearly, in April 8th in the Buddhist temples all over Japan. According to tradition, the believers put, in the temples, little house models decorated with flowers, with baby Buddha statuses inside it. They power water on the […]

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Le Salon du Chocolat – Chocolate Festival in Sendai

Eyal — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 20:35:24 +0000

On the large fair’s areas, dozens of chocolate manufacturers demonstrate their renewals and the production’s chain of the chocolate and its products from the picking of the cocoa beans and it’s processing to the different needs. Manufacturers from Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Russia, Japan, Canada and other states present their products on more than 400 […]

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Shimokitazawa Tengu – Long Red-Nosed Goblins Festival 2026

Eyal — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 20:36:28 +0000

The Shimokitazawa Tengu Festival (Long Red-Nosed Goblins Festival) is held every year in late January early February. The Japanese mark four times a year, the seasons change called in Japanese Setsubun: spring, summer, autumn and winter. On the Setsubun of end winter and start spring the Japanese celebrate Shimokitazawa Tengu Festival which according to Japanese […]

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