Culture Fuji Rock Festival 2024 Serena Ogawa The biggest outdoor music festival in Japan, Fuji Rock Festival takes places in Naeba, Niigata prefecture each summer.
Culture Goryokaku Park Goryokaku Park is an iconic star-shaped fort located in Hakodate. The fortress was originally constructed in 1855 to protect ...
Culture Ako Gishisai Festival, Tokyo 2024 Sleiman Azizi An annual festival held on December 14 in Tokyo, commemorating the 47 ronin, samurai who avenged their wrongfully executed ma...
Culture Cat Alley In Onomichi Jemma King Neko no Hosomichi or Cat Alley in Onomichi is hidden away between the sloping streets that wind around the town. It connects ...
Culture Yokosuka Curry Festival 2024 Kim The Yokosuka Curry Festival is an annual event that celebrates this much-loved comfort food.
Culture teamLab Planets teamLab Planets in Toyosu, Tokyo, is a body immersive museum where reality and fantasy blend into one work on art with you as...
Culture Daruma Kuyo at Nishiarai Daishi Temple 2025 Gloria Ticconi Daruma Kuyo is a traditional event that has been held at the Nishiarai Daishi Temple since 1954.
Culture Shibuya Halloween 2024 Jemma King Halloween has been steadily building momentum in Japan over the past few years, with this Tokyo event in October a highlight....
Culture Todaiji Todai-ji Temple, also known as the Great Eastern Temple, was originally built in 752 at the behest of Emperor Shomu. It is on...
Culture Bladesmiths of Sakai Alena Eckelmann There are 75 families members of the Sakai blade-making guild. Their workshops are located in the old part of Sakai, a stretc...