Activities Cosmos Season at the Kurohime Plateau 2024 Kim Nagano's Kurohime Plateau has been home to cosmos flowers for almost the last 50 years, and the area is a popular picnic spot...
Activities Paantu Festival in Okinawa 2024 Sarah Koh Okinawa's Miyakojima island celebrates the Paantu festival – an ancient form of exorcism involving supernatural creatures, ma...
Culture Rice Field Art 2024 Lynda Hogan Guinness World Record holding rice field art closest to both Tokyo and a rugby world cup stadium.
Culture Hamamatsu Cup Festa Samba 2024 Anonymous A samba contest with both local and professional samba teams taking part.
Culture Sakado Yosakoi Festival 2024 Todd Wojnowski Sakado Yosakoi is a huge traditional dance festival held in Sakado City, Saitama every summer. Over 250,000 visitors watch mo...
Shopping RENEW: Factory Tour & Market 2024 Geoff Day The combination of unique, high-quality local materials with processes that have been fine-tuned through generations of labor...
Culture Naha Tug-of-War Festival 2024 Guilhem Malfre Every October, Naha hosts its annual Tug-of-War Festival, where competing teams face off with a 200-meter long rope – a Guinn...
Culture Inariyama Festa 2024 Kim Running for over a decade now, the Inariyama Festa at Sayama Inariyama Prefectural Park is an event that remembers the Great ...
Activities Saijo Sake Festival 2024 Ciara Long Two days of food stalls, live music, entertainment and over 900 types of sake from all over Japan.
Culture Michinoku Yosakoi 2024 Laura Welch The third-largest Yosakoi festival in Japan, Michinoku Yosakoi features dozens of groups all over Sendai. It's colorful, ener...