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Karatsu Kunchi 11月2日（月） Ohara Festival 11月2日（月） Hikari no Machi Hakata 11月3日（火） Midosuji Illumination 11月3日（火） Yagoro-don Festival 11月3日（火） Tokyo German Village Winter Illumination 10月31日（土） Naruko Gorge in Autumn: A Canyon of Color and Hot Water 10月下旬〜11月上旬が見頃 To-no-Hetsuri 10月下旬〜11月上旬が見頃 Nita Pass 10月下旬〜11月中旬が見頃 Daisen 10月下旬〜11月上旬が見頃 Fukiware-no-taki 10月下旬〜11月上旬が見頃 Geibikei Gorge: The Song Comes on the Way Back 10月中旬〜11月上旬が見頃 Koyasan 10月下旬〜11月上旬が見頃 Fukuroda Falls 11月上旬〜中旬が見頃 Shin-Yabakei 10月下旬〜11月中旬が見頃 Yamadera 10月下旬〜11月上旬が見頃 Eiheiji Temple 11月上旬〜中旬が見頃 Sumatakyo Gorge 11月上旬〜下旬が見頃 Zuihoji Park 11月上旬〜中旬が見頃 Genbikei Gorge: The Dumplings Arrive by Rope 10月下旬〜11月上旬が見頃

February 2027 1 events

Festival Hokkaido S

Sapporo Snow Festival

Odori Park and other venues, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido

Snow sculptures are made knowing they will vanish in days. In February, giant sculptures rising more than ten meters lin

Year-round

Festival Hokkaido S

毎年1月下旬〜3月中旬

Sounkyo Ice Waterfall Festival

Sounkyo Onsen, Kamikawa, Hokkaido

In January, something is built in the gorge. The canyon walls of Sounkyo become in winter the frame for an ice festival

Festival Hokkaido O

通年（週末・祝日が中心）

Obihiro Banei Racing: The Only Draft Horse Race in the World

Obihiro Racecourse, Nishi-13-jo Minami 9, Obihiro City, Hokkaido

Banei racing exists nowhere else in the world. The horses are draft breeds — heavy, powerful, built for pulling rather t

Festival Hokkaido H

例年8月中旬

Hokkaido Shimbun Summer Fireworks

Toyohira River, Sapporo, Hokkaido

These are fireworks for a cool summer. Sapporo's warm season is brief, and that brevity makes it precious. Along the ban

Festival Hokkaido A

例年2月上旬（約1週間）

Asahikawa Winter Festival: The City That Built a World Record in Snow

Asahibashi riverside on the Ishikari River and Kaimono Koen, Asahikawa, Hokkaido

Asahikawa sits in the coldest basin of any major Japanese city—mornings of minus twenty are ordinary here—and every Febr

Festival Hokkaido L

例年1月下旬〜2月中旬

Lake Shikotsu Ice Festival: Ice Grown from a Lake That Never Freezes

Shikotsuko Onsen, Chitose, Hokkaido

Lake Shikotsu is a caldera lake south of Sapporo, among the clearest bodies of water in Japan and so deep that it never

Festival Hokkaido H

例年10月上旬〜中旬が見頃

840 Jozankei, Minami-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido

The valley is quiet. For the last two kilometers, from the gate to the dam, nothing with an engine is allowed through —

Festival Hokkaido J

例年10月上旬〜中旬が見頃

Jozankei Onsen, Minami-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido

Sapporo is a city of two million people, and this gorge is inside its municipal limits. Jozankei sits about an hour by r

Festival Hokkaido G

例年9月中旬〜下旬が見頃

Ginsendai, Sounkyo, Kamikawa, Hokkaido

Japan's autumn is usually filed under late November, maples, temple gardens. It starts here instead, in mid-September, h

Festival Hokkaido M

例年4月中旬〜5月下旬が見頃

Matsumae Park Cherry Blossoms

Matsumae Park, Matsushiro, Matsumae, Hokkaido

Cherry blossom lasts about a week in most places. In Matsumae it lasts a month, because the town spent a long time colle

Festival Hokkaido N

例年5月上旬〜中旬が見頃

Nijukken-doro Cherry Avenue

Nijukken-doro Cherry Avenue, Shizunai Tawara to Shizunai Misono, Shinhidaka, Hokkaido

This road was not built to be looked at. It was built to be driven along, by members of the imperial family inspecting a