Japan

Events & Gatherings

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All Festival 421 Market 45 Gathering 74 Residency 27 Workshop 22 Community 2
All regions Hokkaido 19 Tohoku 94 Kanto 100 Chubu 119 Kinki 96 Chugoku 61 Shikoku 17 Kyushu 67 Okinawa 13 Other 15
October 2026 1 events
Gathering Kyushu S
10/30–11/03
Saga International Balloon Fiesta
For five days that straddle the end of October and the start of November, the flood plain of the Kase River in Saga fill
November 2026 2 events
Gathering Kyushu O
11/02–11/03
Ohara Festival
The largest festival in southern Kyushu takes over the tram-line avenue of Tenmonkan, Kagoshima's downtown, for two days
Gathering Kyushu U
11/07–11/08
Usuki Takeyoi Bamboo Lantern Festival
The town of Usuki, on Oita's eastern coast, is a small place — some thirty-seven thousand people, a castle town grown ri
Year-round
Gathering Kyushu K
Daily
Kunisaki Peninsula Art Festival
Kunisaki, Bungotakada and the Kunisaki Peninsula, Oita
In a land of Buddhas, contemporary art takes up residence. The Kunisaki Peninsula in Oita is a round peninsula jutting i
Gathering Kyushu A
通年（火山活動状況により立入制限あり）
Aso Kusasenri: The Grassland at the Volcano's Edge
Kusasenrigahama, Aso City, Kumamoto
The Aso caldera is one of the largest in the world, and Kusasenri sits inside it — a circular meadow on the flank of an
Gathering Kyushu H
例年11月上旬〜翌春
Huis Ten Bosch Kingdom of Light
1-1 Huis Ten Bosch-cho, Sasebo, Nagasaki
On the western edge of Kyushu, a Dutch city that never was puts on thirteen million lights and becomes, for half the yea
Gathering Kyushu S
例年2月
Shujo Onie at Tennenji: The Demons Are the Ancestors
Kunisaki is a peninsula shaped like a wheel — valleys radiating out from a central peak, each one holding a temple older
Gathering Kyushu P
2月上旬〜3月上旬
Porcelain Dolls in Arita: A Festival in a Kiln Town
Arita is a town in a narrow valley in Saga, and it has been making porcelain there for four hundred years. This is not b