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Events in Japan in November 2026

Dates verified: September 27, 2026

The most memorable festivals, fireworks nights, flower seasons, snow festivals and light-ups in November 2026, each date checked against its organiser. Filter by kind or city, and open an event for the details.

  • FestivalFujiwara Autumn Festival · 1–3 Nov秋の藤原まつりHiraizumi · Iwate · FreeThree early-November days of Noh, ancient Ennen dances and a children's procession at Hiraizumi's World Heritage temples, timed to peak maple colour.
    The covering hall that shelters the Konjikido at Chuson-ji in Hiraizumi, gold glinting through its open doorway, with a maple in full red beside it and cedars on the hill behind
    skyseeker via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 · cropped
  • IlluminationMidosuji Illumination and Osaka Hikari no Renaissance · 3 Nov – 31 Dec御堂筋イルミネーションOsaka · FreeOsaka's winter of light, four kilometres of lit trees along Midosuji Avenue through November and December, joined mid-month by the Nakanoshima Renaissance.
    Ginkgo trees wrapped in blue-white lights receding down both sides of Midosuji Avenue in Osaka at night, with red and white car light trails streaking across the roadway in a long exposure
    Mc681 via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · cropped
  • IlluminationExpected · dates to be confirmedRoppongi and Midtown Illuminations · Early November 2026 – Late December 2026けやき坂イルミネーション／MIDTOWN CHRISTMASTokyo · FreeTwo Christmas displays ten minutes apart in Roppongi: the Keyakizaka slope in blue and white under Tokyo Tower, and Tokyo Midtown’s lit garden.
    Roppongi Keyakizaka-dori lined with trees in blue and white lights at night, Tokyo Tower lit orange at the end of the street between the towers
    Junhyeong Song via Unsplash · Unsplash License · cropped
  • FireworksTsuchiura All Japan Fireworks Competition · 7 Nov土浦全国花火競技大会Tsuchiura · Ibaraki · FreeJapan's great autumn fireworks competition, a cold November night on the Sakura River in Ibaraki where the country's top makers compete an hour from Tokyo.
    A wall of white starmine bursts with blue and red peony shells over the Sakura River at the Tsuchiura All Japan Fireworks Competition, a large orange chrysanthemum shell high above them
    inoc via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 · cropped
  • IlluminationMarunouchi Illumination · 12 Nov 2026 – 14 Feb 2027丸の内イルミネーションTokyo · FreeTokyo's most elegant street illumination, three months of champagne-gold lights in the trees of Marunouchi Naka-dori beside Tokyo Station.
    Warm champagne-gold fairy lights wound along the branches of a zelkova on Marunouchi Naka-dori at night, with autumn leaves still on the tree and the windows of an office building behind
    Takashi Hososhima via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · cropped
  • IlluminationSapporo White Illumination · 20 Nov 2026 – 14 Mar 2027さっぽろホワイトイルミネーションSapporo · Hokkaido · FreeJapan's oldest city illumination, lighting Odori Park and Sapporo's main streets from late November into the snow of February, with a German Christmas market.
    A field of blue lights and white and pink snowflake motifs in Odori Park at night during the Sapporo White Illumination, with the lit Sapporo TV Tower behind and the wet pavement reflecting the blue
    Sorah Fukumori via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0 · cropped
  • FlowersOn nowHitachi Seaside Park Kochia Carnival · 18 Sept – 3 NovコキアカーニバルHitachinaka · Ibaraki · From ¥800The autumn counterpart to the blue nemophila hill, when tens of thousands of round kochia bushes turn Miharashi Hill a deep crimson through October.
    Miharashi Hill at Hitachi Seaside Park covered in deep crimson kochia bushes to the skyline, paved paths winding through them and crowds of visitors walking the slope under a clear blue sky
    Andre Benz via Unsplash · Unsplash License · cropped
  • IlluminationComing soonAshikaga Flower Park Flower Fantasy · 17 Oct 2026 – 14 Feb 2027あしかがフラワーパーク 光の花の庭Ashikaga · Tochigi · From ¥1,500The wisteria garden's winter illumination, four months of lights in three themed phases at Ashikaga Flower Park, one of Japan's three great illuminations.
    A pond at Ashikaga Flower Park filled with LED tableaux at night — a lit sailing ship, a glowing blue globe, whales, dolphins, penguins and giraffes — each one mirrored in the still black water
    Miyuki Meinaka via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · cropped
  • IlluminationComing soonNabana no Sato Illumination · 17 Oct 2026 – 31 May 2027なばなの里 イルミネーションKuwana · Mie · From ¥2,500Japan's largest garden illumination, from mid-October to the end of May in a flower park near Nagoya, with a light tunnel and a field of millions of LEDs.
    A curving light tunnel glowing pink beside a bed of red LED tulips at Nabana no Sato at night, real trees lit warm above it and a blue LED field in the distance
    carloshonda via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0 · cropped
  • IlluminationComing soonTokyo Mega Illumination · 31 Oct 2026 – 10 Jan 2027東京メガイルミTokyo · From ¥800Tokyo's largest ticketed illumination, a winter light park laid out across Oi Racecourse in Shinagawa on the nights when there is no racing.
    A crowd in silhouette walking beneath a vast draped canopy of warm white fairy lights at Tokyo Mega Illumination, with red and blue lit sections deeper under the grandstand at Oi Racecourse
    Syced via Wikimedia Commons · CC0 1.0 · cropped

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