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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 4 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 H
11/03–01/11
Hikari no Machi Hakata
JR Hakata Station Square, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka
The plaza in front of Hakata Station becomes, for ten weeks, a town built of light. From November 3 to January 11, betwe
Gathering Kyushu H
11/06–02/25
Huis Ten Bosch The Starlight Million
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 a winter, a
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
May 2027 1 events
Gathering Kyushu H
05/03–05/04
Hakata Dontaku Port Festival
The name of Fukuoka's great spring festival comes from a Dutch word. Dontaku derives from Zondag — Sunday, a day off — a
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 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