Enshrinement Commemoration and Lantern Festival
14 Sep 2025
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Kyoto holds many cultural, artistic, and nature-related events throughout the year.
See which ones you will have a chance to experience during your upcoming trip.
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Traditional Events 
Tenjin Market
25 Nov 2024 – 31 Dec 2025
Cuisine / Markets / Other 
Shosei-en Garden Enshin-do Hall – Kyoto Summer Special Openings
11 Jul – 30 Sep 2025
Special Openings 
Kongo School of Noh Regular Theater Performance
14 Sep 2025
Art / Music / Theater 
Kongo School of Noh Special Theater Performance
12 Oct 2025
Art / Music / Theater 
Kawadoko in Kibune (Riverside Dining)
01 May – 30 Sep 2025
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Tanabata Festival in Yasaka-jinja Shrine
07 Aug 2025
Cuisine / Markets / Other Venue: Yasaka-jinja Shrine
Gojo Wakamiya Pottery Festival
07 Aug - 10 Aug 2025
Cuisine / Markets / Other Venue: Gojo-dori (between Yamato-oji and Higashi-oji) North sidewalk / Wakamiya Hachimangu Shrine / Nearby pottery shops and restaurants
Welcoming the spirits of the dead with a Rokudo Mairi ceremony
07 Aug - 10 Aug 2025
Traditional Events Venue: Rokudo Chinno-ji Temple
Tanabata Bamboo Decorations Illumination
01 Jul - 15 Aug 2025
Special Openings Venue: Kifune-jinja Shrine
Tanabata Festival Decorations in the Eizan Railway Trains
01 Jul - 15 Aug 2025
Cuisine / Markets / Other Venue: Mainly between Demachiyanagi Station and Kurama Station
The 22nd Candlelit Noh Theater Performance: “Matsuyama Tengu”
16 Aug 2025
Art / Music / Theater Venue: Kongo Noh Theatre
Hensho-ji Temple’s Lantern Floating
16 Aug 2025
Traditional Events Venue: Hirosawa Pond
Arashiyama Lantern Floating Festival
16 Aug 2025
Traditional Events Venue: Arashiyama Nakanoshima Park
Main Events
Aoi Matsuri Festival
May 15
A long-held procession from Kyoto Imperial Palace to two historic shrines, with 500 people in courtly Heian attire.
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Gion Matsuri Festival
July 1-31
One of the three greatest festivals of Japan, when downtown Kyoto is lively with lavishly decorated festival floats.
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Kyoto Gozan Okuribi Bonfires
August 16
Five mountains around Kyoto are lit up with bonfires as a send-off for ancestral spirits who visit during Obon.
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Jidai Matsuri Festival
October 22
This parade of roughly 2,000 participants dressed in period garb representing over 1,000 years of Kyoto’s history.
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