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

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

One of Japan's Three Big Festivals

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

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

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

See the Night Sky Illuminated with Over 20,000 Fireworks

Enjoy Fireworks from the Banks of the Arakawa River

A Must-See Performance with Colorful Costumes and Spectacular Dancing

A Brilliant Firework Festival with an Ever-changing Theme