IN SEASON NOW
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
December 2026
2 events
Gathering
Other
M
12/03–12/03
Morotabune at Miho Shrine: Rowing the Old Negotiation
The bay at Mihonoseki is narrow and deep, and in early December the water in it is the colour of slate.
Two boats push
Gathering
Other
H
12/04–01/24
Hiroshima Dreamination
In the center of Hiroshima, winter opens like a storybook of light. From December 4 to January 24, the Dreamination — dr
Year-round
Residency
Other
O
Year-round
Otona Shima Ryugaku — Island Living Program
Ama-cho, Oki Islands, Shimane
The island's unofficial motto is "Nai mono wa nai" — what isn't here, isn't needed. It's a quiet provocation, aimed at e
Residency
Other
G
Daily
Goto Islands Farming and Fishing Life Experience
Fukue Island and the Goto Islands, Goto, Nagasaki
A life with both sea and field. The Goto Islands of Nagasaki are a scattering of more than a hundred and forty islands i
Gathering
Other
R
通年（8:30〜17:00）
Ryusendo Cave: Underground Lake of Iwate
1-1 Kannari, Iwaizumi-cho, Shimohei-gun, Iwate
Deep inside the mountain, the cave opens into a lake. The water is so clear that the measured visibility exceeds ninety-
Residency
Other
A
通年
Amami Oshima: Music and Jungle at the Edge of the Tropics
Amami City and Yamato Village, Kagoshima
Amami Oshima is not Okinawa and not the Japanese mainland; it is the largest island of an archipelago with its own disti
Festival
Other
T
年数回（正月・5月・10月の全島大会ほか）
Tokunoshima Bullfighting: Where Bulls Compete, Not Matadors
Tokunoshima Island, Oshima-gun, Kagoshima
Tokunoshima's bullfighting is not the Spanish kind. The bulls fight each other, not a human opponent, and the match ends
Festival
Other
E
例年1月中旬〜2月上旬
Echizen Coast Daffodil Festival
Echizen Suisen no Sato Park, 43-25 Ikuracho, Fukui
Try to name a flower that blooms in Japan in January. The list is short, and on this coast it has one entry.
The Echize
Festival
Other
M
例年4月中旬が見頃
Muramatsu Park Cherry Blossoms
Muramatsu Park, 2631-1 Atagoko, Gosen, Niigata
This park was also built to remember the dead. Muramatsu Park was laid out in October 1906 as a memorial to the Russo-Ja
Festival
Other
M
例年4月上旬が見頃
Miyagawa Embankment Cherry Blossoms
Miyagawa embankment, Nakajima, Ise, Mie
This is the river you cross before Ise. The Miyagawa embankment carries about seven hundred cherry trees over a kilometr