15 Culture Tokamachi Snow Festival 2016 Rufus Starbuck Tokamachi Snow Festival is one of the best winter festivals in the whole of the country with snow sculptures, live music and ...
Culture Bishamondo Naked Man Festival, Urasa 2025 Rufus Starbuck The Naked Man Festival at Urasa's Bishamondo is one of the top bizarre festivals in Japan and a wonderful night out each year...
Culture Sakura at Matsuyama Castle Bronwyn O'Neill Matsuyama is becoming increasingly more popular with travellers who are looking for locations slightly removed from the tradi...
Culture Chichibu's Shin-soba Festival Sherilyn Siy Chichibu's Shin-soba Festival: Enjoy newly harvested and freshly made soba
Culture The Miyajima Fireworks Experience Cordelia Ding The Miyajima Fireworks Show, also known as the "Miyajima-on-the-sea-Fireworks Display," is an annual show and festival that t...
10 Culture The Grand Sanja Festival Parade Kylie Plester Enjoy an Edo Period parade at the Sanja Matsuri held in Asakusa in May
Culture Kodo Celebrates 35 Years Mandy Bartok Celebrate 35 years of taiko drumming by Sado-based ensemble Kodo in a series of summer performances.
Culture Gojinjo Taiko Alena Eckelmann Gojinjo Daiko, a kind of Japanese drumming specific to Ishikawa Prefecture, has a tradition of 400 years.
13 Culture A Winter Wonderland Illaura Rossiter Snowy scenes and ice sculptures dominate the landscape each February at Japan's biggest snow festival in Sapporo, Hokkaido. C...
