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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1
Meigetsu-in Hydrangea Festival
Akechiko! Steam Black Diamonds Island of Madness
Umeda Tanabata Festival
+7 more
2
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
3
Hatsune Miku × Karaoke no Tetsujin 2026
4
Special Exhibition: From the Island of Whales vol.2
Teru Teru Bozu Exhibition 2026
Harima Meet Sake Stamp Rally
+1 more
5
The Sun and the Moon: Art Inspired by the Celestial
Naoto Inti Raymi Live Tour 2026
KAZAMA Sachiko: Clairvoyance in a 9㎡ room
+5 more
6
Kenny Scharf & Keith Haring: K!K!
RYOFU (Lu Bu)
Michael Anastassiades: From Warm Yellow to Saturated Red
+11 more
7
Musical: Women on the Brink of Nervous Breakdown
Kagurameko Iris Garden 2026
The Nutcracker
+1 more
8
Kozo Kakimoto: Summer Stories
9
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
10
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
11
MONSTERS BY MONSTERS: NOW AND THEN — The Monsters 10th Anniversary Exhibition Tokyo
MONSTERS BY MONSTERS: NOW AND THEN
12
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
+5 more
13
The Complete Takehisa Yumeji — Painter, Poet, Designer
Light of a Country That No Longer Exists — Female Photographers of East Germany
Artists Gathering at Cafés — From Impressionism to Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Picasso
+7 more
14
Gold, Silver & Mica Shimmer — Radiance in Japanese Art
15
What's This Folk Tool? — The Folk Implements Collection Left by Folklorist Tsuneichi Miyamoto
16
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Extinction
TV Anime Gnosia × FavoteriA Special Collaboration 2026
Gentle Breezes — Victorian Painting & French Impressionism
+2 more
17
Ukiyo-e Hyaku Monogatari — Hokusai's Spine-Tingling Masterpieces
Collection Cinema
The New Vision: Monet and the Contemporary Gaze
+6 more
18
Mako Idemitsu: Women's Works — An Experimental Filmmaker's Autobiography
Stand My Heroes × Karaoke Manekineko Collaboration Campaign 2026
Mako Idemistu — A Woman's Works: The Autobiography of a Video Artist
+4 more
19
Shinshu Wine Summit in Matsumoto
New PANTY &STOCKING with GARTERBELT POP UP SHOP in AMNIBUS STORE -blue- 2026
Rainbow Shards ~ Another Judy
+8 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
22
100% Doraemon & Friends Summer Travel Express 2026
Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club Kitchen Car Birthday Drinks 2026
23
Ettore Sottsass: Design begins where magic begins
Meiji Western Architecture: Dreams and Challenges — Edo-Tokyo Museum Reopening Special Exhibition
TAKIGUCHI Shuzo: Writing and Drawing
+5 more
24
Jonas Blue
Chisako Takashima 12 Violinists Concert Tour 2026–2027
Pingu × Hapidanbui Kakigori POP UP STORE 2026 in Harajuku
+5 more
25
Akemi Takada Solo Exhibition -Angel Touch- 2026 in EDITION88
Sugawara Michizane Birthday Festival
Bukurote First Solo Exhibition “Abduction” in Anicoremix Gallery 2026
+2 more
26
Sezon Museum of Modern Art Collection Exhibition: Miracles Seen from There
Rilakkuma × Joetsu Aquarium Umigatari “Umi Rila Kibun” Collaboration Event 2026
Sofmap × “THE IDOLMASTER MILLION LIVE!” “S-CLASS SYNC” in Akihabara 2026
+10 more
27
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO & TIN DRUM KAGAMI+
Swedish Tableware — Living with Gustavsberg
Special Exhibition: Wajima Lacquerware — Preserving Urushi Culture for Future Generations
+14 more
28
Jun. K (2PM) in Yokohama
Arapina [Cast] Arapina, Kishinami Ai, Fami. Arapina FC Exclusive Live "Arapina's Music 2"
Hiromi Go Concert
+22 more
29
Keiji Haino & Daniel Blumberg / Ellen Arkbro & Reigakusha
30
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