Japan Events & Festivals in December 2026
90 events found in December 2026
🏮 Festival🎗️ Culture
Year-End Cleaning Festival
Dec 1, 2026
Nikko
🎗️ Culture
New Year's Eve Bell
Dec 1, 2026
Tokyo
🖼️ Exhibition
Winter Special Exhibition
Dec 1, 2026 - Feb 28, 2027
Yasugi
🎗️ Culture🏮 Festival
"Monthly Festival" (Anyone can attend)
Dec 2026 1-15
Tokyo
🎗️ Culture
Castle Tower Soot Sweeping Ceremony
Dec 2026 1-31
Matsue
🎗️ Culture
Buddhist famous association
Dec 1, 2026
Nara
🎗️ Culture🏮 Festival
New Moon Ceremony (Combined)
Dec 1, 2026
Tokyo
🎗️ Culture
Winter Enclosure Preparation at Matsumoto Castle
Dec 1, 2026
Matsumoto
🎗️ Culture
Rohatsu Intensive Meditation Retreat
Dec 1, 2026
Kyoto
🎗️ Culture
Buddhist famous association
Dec 1, 2026
Tokyo
🏮 Festival🎗️ Culture
Lantern Fair
Dec 1, 2026
Kobe
🎵 Music
ENHYPEN WORLD TOUR 'BLOOD SAGA' IN JAPAN
Dec 1, 2026
Tokyo
🎗️ Culture🏮 Festival
New Moon Ceremony
Dec 1, 2026
Tokyo
🎗️ Culture
Butsumyo-e (Buddha Name Chanting)
Dec 2026 1-3
Kyoto
🎵 Music🎗️ Culture🎇 Fireworks🏮 Festival🌿 Nature
Chichibu Night Festival
Dec 2026 2-3
Saitama
🎤 Performance
December Grand Kabuki
Dec 2026 2-25
Tokyo
🖼️ Exhibition
73rd Japan Traditional Crafts Exhibition
Dec 2026 2-25
Matsue
🎵 Music
ENHYPEN WORLD TOUR 'BLOOD SAGA' IN JAPAN
Dec 2, 2026
Tokyo
🖼️ Exhibition
Taisho-Reiwa Avant-Garde (Tentative)
Dec 4, 2026 - May 16, 2027
Hirosaki
🎗️ Culture🏮 Festival
Okuni Shrine Festival
Dec 4, 2026
Miyajima
🎵 Music🎤 Performance
YOASOBI ASIA 10-CITY DOME & STADIUM TOUR 2026-2027
Dec 5, 2026
Tokyo
🎗️ Culture
Himeji Castle Winter Cleaning Volunteer
Dec 5, 2026
Himeji
🎗️ Culture
Year-End Xuanzang Fair Day
Dec 5, 2026
Nara
🖼️ Exhibition
25th Anniversary Exhibition: World of Local Swords
Dec 5, 2026 - Jan 17, 2027
Yonezawa
🎵 Music🎤 Performance
YOASOBI ASIA 10-CITY DOME & STADIUM TOUR 2026-2027
Dec 6, 2026
Tokyo
🎗️ Culture
Denshu Denkai Dojo
Dec 6, 2026
Tokyo
🌿 Nature🎤 Performance🎗️ Culture
Jodo-e (Enlightenment Ceremony)
Dec 8, 2026
Kyoto
🎗️ Culture🏮 Festival
Tenjin Shrine Festival
Dec 8, 2026
Kyoto
🎗️ Culture
Year-End Yakushi Fair Day & Great Wisdom Sutra Chanting
Dec 8, 2026
Nara
🎗️ Culture
Jodo-e – Buddha's Enlightenment Ceremony
Dec 8, 2026
Kyoto
🎗️ Culture
Seidokai
Dec 8, 2026
Fujisawa
🎗️ Culture
Jodo-e – Buddha's Enlightenment Ceremony
Dec 8, 2026
Tokyo
🌿 Nature🎗️ Culture
Jodo-e – Buddha's Enlightenment Ceremony
Dec 8, 2026
Kyoto
🏮 Festival
Chikyu-sai Festival
Dec 9, 2026
Fujisawa
🖼️ Exhibition
Kokuga-kai 100th Anniversary Exhibition
Dec 2026 11-27
Yamagata
🎗️ Culture
Year-End Soot Sweeping Ceremony
Dec 11, 2026
Tokyo
🎗️ Culture
Himeji Castle World Cultural Heritage Registration Anniversary
Dec 11, 2026
Himeji
🎗️ Culture
Animal Storytime
Dec 12, 2026
Sendai
🎗️ Culture
Palace Soot Sweeping & Door Opening Ceremony
Dec 12, 2026
Tokyo
🎵 Music
Chisato Moritaka Concert 2026
Dec 13, 2026
Beppu
🎗️ Culture🖼️ Exhibition
Special Exhibition: Exoticism - Part II
Dec 13, 2026 - Feb 20, 2027
Kyoto
🎗️ Culture
New Year Decorations: Kadomatsu, Soot Sweeping & Shimenawa
Dec 13, 2026
Matsumoto
🎗️ Culture
Himeji Castle Clean-Up Campaign
Dec 15, 2026
Himeji
🎗️ Culture🏮 Festival
Monthly Shrine Ceremony
Dec 15, 2026
Tokyo
🎗️ Culture
Suijinja Shrine Annual Festival
Dec 16, 2026
Tokyo
🎗️ Culture🏮 Festival
Enshrinement Anniversary
Dec 16, 2026
Fujisawa
🎗️ Culture🏮 Festival
Koshin Festival
Dec 17, 2026
Tokyo
🎵 Music🏮 Festival🎗️ Culture
Kannon Foot Pilgrimage & Year-End Market
Dec 18, 2026
Fujisawa
🎗️ Culture
Year-End Kannon Holy Day
Dec 18, 2026
Tokyo
🎤 Performance
Fujii Kaze "Prema World Tour"
Dec 2026 19-20
Tokyo
🖼️ Exhibition
Renewal 10th Anniversary Masterpiece Exhibition: National Treasure Red and White Plum Blossoms Screen
Dec 19, 2026 - Feb 23, 2027
Atami
🏮 Festival
Giant Shimenawa Replacement
Dec 20, 2026
Fukutsu
🎗️ Culture
Year-End Maitreya Fair Day
Dec 20, 2026
Nara
🎗️ Culture
Year-End Cleaning Ceremony
Dec 21, 2026
Kyoto
🎗️ Culture
Hoshi Kuyo-e (Star Festival Ceremony)
Dec 22, 2026
Tokyo
🎗️ Culture
Winter Solstice Festival
Dec 22, 2026
Tokyo
🖼️ Exhibition
Winter 2026 Permanent Exhibition
Dec 22, 2026 - Mar 28, 2027
Sendai
🎗️ Culture🏮 Festival
Year-End Cleaning Festival
Dec 25, 2026
Kyoto
🎗️ Culture
Park light inspection and cleaning service around Himeji Castle
Dec 25, 2026
Himeji
🎗️ Culture
Himeji Castle Giant Kadomatsu Pine Decoration
Dec 25, 2026
Himeji
🎗️ Culture🎵 Music
Mariko Senju Concert at Atami-za
Dec 26, 2026
Atami
🎗️ Culture
Susuharai Year-End Purification Festival
Dec 27, 2026
Tokyo
🎗️ Culture
Sacred Fire Drilling Ceremony (Private)
Dec 28, 2026
Kyoto
🏮 Festival
Year-End Grand Purification Ceremony
Dec 28, 2026
Tokyo
🎗️ Culture
Sacred Body Wiping Ceremony
Dec 29, 2026
Nara
🌿 Nature🎗️ Culture
New Year's Eve Ceremony
Dec 31, 2026
Kyoto
🎗️ Culture⚽ Sports
New Year's Eve Bell Ringing
Dec 31, 2026
Fujisawa
🎗️ Culture
Great purification (Oharae)
Dec 31, 2026
Tokyo
🎗️ Culture
Imamiya Ebisu Shrine sea bream dedication
Dec 31, 2026
Kyoto
🎗️ Culture
New Year's Eve Night
Dec 31, 2026
Kyoto
🎗️ Culture
New Year's Eve Grand Purification
Dec 31, 2026
Kyoto
🎗️ Culture
Saibanto mikkyo event
Dec 31, 2026
Kyoto
🌈 Illumination🎤 Performance🎗️ Culture
New Year's Eve Bell
Dec 31, 2026
Kyoto
🎗️ Culture🏮 Festival
New Year's Eve Festival
Dec 31, 2026
Miyajima
🎗️ Culture
Grand Purification & Sacred Talisman Burning Ceremony
Dec 31, 2026
Atami
🎗️ Culture
Great purification
Dec 31, 2026
Fujisawa
🎗️ Culture
New Year's Eve Bell Ringing at Sensoji Temple
Dec 31, 2026
Tokyo
🎗️ Culture
New Year's Eve Bell (Shariden)
Dec 31, 2026
Fujisawa
🌿 Nature🎗️ Culture
New Year's Eve Bell Ringing
Dec 31, 2026
Nara
🎗️ Culture🏮 Festival
Grand Purification and Fire-Quelling Ceremony
Dec 31, 2026
Tokyo
🎗️ Culture
New Year's Eve Memorial Recitation
Dec 31, 2026
Fujisawa
🎗️ Culture🏮 Festival
Grand Purification Ceremony & New Year's Eve Festival
Dec 31, 2026
Sapporo
🎗️ Culture
New Year's Eve Bell Ringing & Year-End Sutra Copying Ceremony
Dec 31, 2026
Nara
🎗️ Culture🏮 Festival
New Year's Eve Festival
Dec 31, 2026
Tokyo
🎗️ Culture
Great purification ceremony
Dec 31, 2026
Kyoto
🎗️ Culture🏮 Festival
New Year's Eve Festival
Dec 31, 2026
Tokyo
🎵 Music🏮 Festival🎗️ Culture
New Year's Eve Festival
Dec 31, 2026
Kyoto
🎗️ Culture
New Year's Eve Party
Dec 31, 2026
Fujisawa
🎗️ Culture🏮 Festival
New Year's Eve Festival
Dec 31, 2026
Tokyo
🎗️ Culture🏮 Festival
Grand Purification & New Year's Eve Festival
Dec 31, 2026
Osaka