Best Traditional Culture around Tokyo and Surroundings Spot List

One of Japan's Three Big Festivals

Watch Tokyo’s Downtown Area Lit Up by Fireworks at Night

Ryogoku Kokugikan or the Ryogoku Sumo Arena offers three grand sumo wrestling tournaments every year. This arena draws your attention with its traditional-style seats and atmosphere while you are enjoying games of the national sport of Japan (sumo).

Live performances of Atami’s traditional music and dances

One of the three major Edo festivals. Also known as the ”water throwing festival” for as its name suggests spectators throw water on Omikoshi (portable shrine) bearers; it is a festival held annually at Tomioka Hachimangu Shrine.

A festival popular with foreign visitors to Japan, where the mikoshi, having the motif of the male genitalia, which is considered to be sacred, is very lively jostled about.

Specializing in Nogaku (Noh and Kyogen), a traditional Japanese performing art.

A Brilliant Firework Festival with an Ever-changing Theme

A Must-See Performance with Colorful Costumes and Spectacular Dancing

Watch 100 Portable Shrines Being Carried Around Asakusa

See the Night Sky Illuminated with Over 20,000 Fireworks

An exhibition center where Chichibu Yomatsuri, one of Japan's three major hikiyama (float) festivals, is introduced through historical material and a live performance.

The Festival Connected with the Tokugawa Shogun Visits to the Kanda Shrine

Enjoy Fireworks from the Banks of the Arakawa River

The Kabuki-za theater is a large-scale theater where kabuki, a traditional Japanese play, is performed.

Watch Performers Dancing to the Beat of Drums and Shamisens in Koenji’s Streets

A place to experience the over 370-year-old Kawagoe Festival year round.

Rakugo is a type of humorous storytelling which depicts the daily lives of townspeople, fairy tales, and more. This is an old tradition which has been loved in Japan since the Edo period. Ikebukuro Engei-jo is a place in Ikebukuro where you can enjoy rakugo. There are chair seats available, so you can sit for a long time without trouble. Let yourself get sucked into the world created by the rakugo storyteller.