Here’s a round-up of some 2025 Golden Week events in Japan that offer the perfect chance to explore, unwind and have a little ...

Japan's biggest dance festival. Thousands of dancers, dressed in colourful traditional costumes, parade through the streets ...

Traditional Japanese games, food and drinks, clothing and performances filled the Gregory Gymnasium Plaza yesterday for the ...

A traditional festival featuring decorative floats has opened in the central Japanese prefecture of Gifu. The Furukawa Festival in Hida City is one of the "Yama, Hoko, Yatai float festivals in ...

With festivals taking place throughout the year in Tokyo, you have a good chance that your trip will coincide with a ...

Yoiyama are the pre-festival evenings. These are taken place in Kyoto's streets, in particular: Shijo, Karasuma, and Kawaramachi. Here, traditional Japanese music fills the streets of Kyoto ...

Carmel's inaugural Cherry Blossom Festival will celebrate 30 years of cultural exchange with Kawachinagano, Japan, at the Japanese Garden on May 4.

KYOTO—A graduate student at the Tokyo University of the Arts has been selected to play the heroine of this year’s Aoi ...

Sake plays an essential role in Japanese culture through rituals and festivals, and traditional sake brewing is regarded as the technology that underlies this. The Japanese government named ...