Cooling Kagura Dance Performance
2025/07/20
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Festivals & Events
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.
Featured Events
Traditional Events 
Kongo School of Noh Regular Theater Performance
2025/09/14
Art / Music / Theater 
Shimogamo-jinja Shrine Honden (Main Sanctuary) and Oidono (Old Sanctuary Kitchen) – Kyoto Summer Special Openings
2025/07/11 - 2025/09/30
Special Openings 
Hydrangea Garden Illumination
2025/06/07 - 2025/06/22
Special Openings 
Kamigamo-jinja Shrine Honden (Main Sanctuary) and Gonden (Temporary Sanctuary) – Kyoto Summer Special Openings
2025/07/11 - 2025/09/30
Special Openings 
Kawadoko in Kibune (Riverside Dining)
2025/05/01 - 2025/09/30
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The 92nd Kyoto Antique Fair
27 Jun - 29 Jun 2025
Cuisine / Markets / Other Venue: Kyoto Pulse Plaza, Large Exhibition Hall
Hydrangea Garden Opening and Festival
01 Jun - 30 Jun 2025
Special Openings Venue: Fujinomori Shrine
Hydrangea Fair in Sustaina Kyoto (Environmental Education Facility)
01 Jun - 30 Jun 2025
Special Openings Venue: Kyoto City Southern Clean Center
Cooling Kagura Dance Performance
20 Jul 2025
Traditional Events Venue: Jonangu Shrine
Motomiya Festival
19 Jul - 20 Jul 2025
Traditional Events Venue: Fushimi Inari-taisha Shrine
Fushimi Jikkokubune (Boat Ride)
20 Mar - 07 Dec 2025
Cuisine / Markets / Other Venue: Along the river behind the Gekkeikan Okura Sake Museum - Misu Komon Lock (round trip)
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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