Best Japanese Festivals (Matsuri) around Tokyo and Surroundings Spot List

One of Japan's Three Big Festivals

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

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.

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.

Watch 100 Portable Shrines Being Carried Around Asakusa

See the Night Sky Illuminated with Over 20,000 Fireworks

A Brilliant Firework Festival with an Ever-changing Theme

A Must-See Performance with Colorful Costumes and Spectacular Dancing

Enjoy Fireworks from the Banks of the Arakawa River

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

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