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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
All Festival 419 Market 35 Gathering 82 Residency 27 Workshop 22 Community 2
All regions Hokkaido 21 Tohoku 93 Kanto 100 Chubu 119 Kinki 94 Chugoku 59 Shikoku 17 Kyushu 67 Okinawa 12 Other 15
November 2026 1 events
Gathering Kinki M
11/03–12/31
Midosuji Illumination
Midosuji Boulevard, Osaka (Hanshin-mae to Namba-nishiguchi)
Osaka's grandest boulevard becomes a single line of light. From November 3 to New Year's Eve, Midosuji glows from the Ha
December 2026 1 events
Gathering Kinki D
12/07–12/08
Daikon-daki at Senbon Shakado: Radishes Against the Kyoto Cold
Steam finds you before the gate does. It is the first week of December in Kyoto, and the cold has already taken up resi
January 2027 2 events
Gathering Kinki D
01/14–01/14
Doyadoya at Shitennoji: Cold Water in the Middle of Osaka
Shitennoji sits in the middle of Osaka, surrounded on every side by the ordinary business of a large city — apartment bl
Gathering Kinki K
01/29–02/07
Kobe Luminarie: Light That Began as Mourning
Meriken Park, Higashi Yuen park, and the former foreign settlement, Kobe
Kobe Luminarie began as an act of mourning. In December 1995, eleven months after the Great Hanshin Earthquake killed mo
Year-round
Gathering Kinki A
3月下旬〜4月上旬（菜の花）、10月（コスモス）
Asuka Fujiwara Palace Ruins: A Field of Canola in Spring
Takadono, Kashihara City, Nara
The Fujiwara Palace was Japan's first permanent capital, built in 694 and abandoned thirty years later when the court mo
Gathering Kinki I
通年（月曜休）
Inujima Art Project: Ruins as Canvas
Inujima, Higashi-ku, Okayama City, Okayama
Inujima had a copper refinery that operated for just a decade before closing in 1919, leaving behind smokestacks and fur
Gathering Kinki B
例年1・4・7〜8・11月
Bunraku at the National Theatre Osaka
Three people to a single puppet. Bunraku, the puppet theatre that grew up in Osaka, works its central illusion through
Gathering Kinki A
ほぼ毎日の定期上演
Awa Puppet Theatre at Jurobei Yashiki
Puppet theatre, but the village kind. The puppet drama of Awa is not the refined Bunraku of the city but something that
Gathering Kinki M
例年春（4月〜5月）と秋、節分
Mibu Kyogen
A kyogen with no voices. Mibu Kyogen has been performed at Mibu Temple in Kyoto for some seven hundred years, and its p
Gathering Kinki T
12月中旬〜下旬
Tottori Sand Dunes Illusion
Tottori Sand Dunes, Fukube-cho, Tottori
Japan does winter illumination with industrial enthusiasm — every city has its tunnel of lights. What Tottori has, alone