Japan Events Calendar 2026
Browse upcoming events and festivals across Japan in 2026. Filter by city — Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe and 30+ more — or by category to find festivals, music, arts, food and wellness events. Updated daily from 50+ sources across Japan.
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Meigetsu-in Hydrangea Festival
Akechiko! Steam Black Diamonds Island of Madness
Umeda Tanabata Festival
+7 more
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Danganronpa Series × NeCoLabo Cafe in Ikebukuro 2026
Kazuo Umezz “The Drifting Classroom” POP UP STORE in Hands Shibuya 2026
Ancient Mounds & Hydrangea Haiku Contest — Mino-no-Sato Community Center
+1 more
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Hatsune Miku × Karaoke no Tetsujin 2026
Weather Planet × E-DINER 1ST ANNIVERSARY Café 2026
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Special Exhibition: From the Island of Whales vol.2
Teru Teru Bozu Exhibition 2026
“The Summer Hikaru Died” Volume 9 Release Commemorative Fair in animate 202
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The Sun and the Moon: Art Inspired by the Celestial
KAZAMA Sachiko: Clairvoyance in a 9㎡ room
Naoto Inti Raymi Live Tour 2026
+5 more
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Kenny Scharf & Keith Haring: K!K!
RYOFU (Lu Bu)
Michael Anastassiades: From Warm Yellow to Saturated Red
+13 more
7
Musical: Women on the Brink of Nervous Breakdown
Kagurameko Iris Garden 2026
The Nutcracker
+1 more
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Kozo Kakimoto: Summer Stories
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Albert Marquet: Variations on Water's Edge
Creating Landscapes – Flohours
“Chibi Maruko-chan”: Maruko and COJI-COJI Collaboration Campaign ―A Little Nice Trip Begins.― 2026
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Picasso Meets Paul Smith — A Playful Adventure
Anime “Jujutsu Kaisen” 5th Anniversary SPECIAL POPUP in baseyard tokyo 2026
“Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun”・“Tokyo Aliens” SQUARE ENIX Official Goods Corner in Shibuya・Osaka・Kyoto
+1 more
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MONSTERS BY MONSTERS: NOW AND THEN — The Monsters 10th Anniversary Exhibition Tokyo
MONSTERS BY MONSTERS: NOW AND THEN
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Samurai Champloo Pop-Up Shop
Akechiko! ~ The Black Diamond of Steam, or The Island of Madness ~ — Shinkansen RSP Musical Theatre
Sendai Umino-Mori Aquarium Special Exhibition: Firefly Grove
+7 more
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Love! Vanguard!! — A Collector's Eye for the Avant-Garde — Yayoi Kusama, Heather & More
Artists Gathering at Cafés — From Impressionism to Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Picasso
Light of a Country That No Longer Exists — Female Photographers of East Germany
+11 more
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Gold, Silver & Mica Shimmer — Radiance in Japanese Art
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What's This Folk Tool? — The Folk Implements Collection Left by Folklorist Tsuneichi Miyamoto
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Extinction
TV Anime Gnosia × FavoteriA Special Collaboration 2026
Shugo Chara! POP UP STORE in LOFT 2026
+2 more
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The New Vision: Monet and the Contemporary Gaze
Collection Cinema
Ukiyo-e Hyaku Monogatari — Hokusai's Spine-Tingling Masterpieces
+6 more
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Mako Idemitsu: Women's Works — An Experimental Filmmaker's Autobiography
Mob Psycho 100 III “Rainy Season” Pop-up Store in Kinokuniya Bookstore Shinjuku Main Store 2026
Stand My Heroes × Karaoke Manekineko Collaboration Campaign 2026
+5 more
19
Shinshu Wine Summit in Matsumoto
New PANTY &STOCKING with GARTERBELT POP UP SHOP in AMNIBUS STORE -blue- 2026
Rainbow Shards ~ Another Judy
+13 more
20
The 11th Special Exhibition: The Ainu People and World's Fairs
Mamoru Hosoda: The Origins — A Retrospective of the Acclaimed Animation Director
Touhou Project × Yomiuriland “Hakurei Shrine Summer Festival 2026 in Yomiuriland”
+11 more
21
Everyone's Favorite Nontan Photo Session
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Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club Kitchen Car Birthday Drinks 2026
100% Doraemon & Friends Summer Travel Express 2026
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Ettore Sottsass: Design begins where magic begins
Meiji Western Architecture: Dreams and Challenges — Edo-Tokyo Museum Reopening Special Exhibition
June Noh Appreciation Class: Busshi / Aoi
+6 more
24
Jonas Blue
Chisako Takashima 12 Violinists Concert Tour 2026–2027
Mobile Police Patlabor EZY POPUP SHOP 2026 in Akihabara, Ikebukuro, Nagoya, and Namba
+5 more
25
Nobuyuki Tsujii Premium Recital 2026
PIG（Raymond Watts）
Akemi Takada Solo Exhibition -Angel Touch- 2026 in EDITION88
+29 more
26
Jonas Blue in Osaka
Bunraku for Beginners
Saucy Dog DOME LIVE "A NEW DAWN" January 4, 2026 KYOCERA DOME OSAKA "THE MOVIE"
+10 more
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