Nagai Snow Lantern Festival 2025 Tiffany Aguilar Every February, snow lanterns illuminate the town of Nagai, inviting you to experience a lively evening of winter wonder and ...
Culture Yamagata Snow Festival 2025 Mandy Bartok Yamagata hosts a winter festival on the first weekend of February 2017.
Activities Zao Snow Monster Festival 2025 Alena Eckelmann The Zao Snow Monsters rival Nagano's Snow Monkeys in popularity and they are one of Japan's winter attractions not to be missed!
Uesugi Snow Lantern Festival 2025 Kim Bergström Held on the second weekend of February each year, the Uesugi Snow Lantern Festival sees Matsugasaki Park and its surrounds de...
Activities Kasedori Festival 2025 Celine Ong Kasedori Festival, or “Strawbird Festival”, is a unique yet bizarre Japanese event. Performers gather at Kaminoyama Castle dr...
Snow Shoveling Race in Hijiori Onsen 2025 Tiffany Aguilar Held every February in Hijiori Onsen, Yamagata Prefecture, a unique snow shoveling race challenges participants to dig throug...
Culture Yutagawa Onsen Plum Festival 2025 Kim Bergström The Yamagata hot springs town of Yutagawa Onsen has many good reasons to visit, and if you're a flower lover the Yutagawa Ons...
Culture Tendo Ningen Shogi 2025 Celine Ong Tendo Ningen Shogi is a “Human Chess” event that occurs every April in the city of Tendo, Yamagata. Set under rows of bloomin...
Culture Hanagasa Matsuri 2025 Hannah Warren Hanagasa Matsuri is a dance festival which originiated in Obanazawa but is now celebrated across Yamagata every summer.
Culture Shinjo Matsuri 2025 Hannah Warren Shinjo, in Yamagata, hosts this annual festival in which giant floats are paraded through the city.
