Kamishichiken Beer Garden
2025/07/01 - 2025/09/06
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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
Cuisine / Markets / Other 
Hydrangea Garden Opening
2025/05/31 - 2025/07/06
Special Openings 
Onda Festival (Rice Planting Festival)
2025/07/20
Traditional Events 
Kamigamo-jinja Shrine Honden (Main Sanctuary) and Gonden (Temporary Sanctuary) – Kyoto Summer Special Openings
2025/07/11 - 2025/09/30
Special Openings 
Yayoi Kusama Print Works: Repetition & Proliferation (Matsumoto City Museum of Art Collection)
2025/04/25 - 2025/09/07
Art / Music / Theater 
Ninna-ji Temple Kannon-do Hall – Kyoto Summer Special Openings
2025/07/11 - 2025/09/30
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Green Maple Leaves in the Historic Site of Odoi
10 Apr - 22 Jun 2025
Special Openings Venue: Kitano Tenmangu Shrine
Japanese Stewartia Flowers Viewing Event with Matcha, Sweets and Vegetarian Cuisine
09 Jun - 22 Jun 2025
Cuisine / Markets / Other Venue: Torin-in Temple, a sub-temple of Myoshin-ji Temple
Ninnaji Temple: Illumination of the Sea of Clouds and Green Maple Leaves & Night Viewing of the Kannon Hall
24 May - 29 Jun 2025
Special Openings Venue: The grounds of Ninna-ji Temple
“NINJA EXTREME PARTY”
12 Apr - 29 Jun 2025
Cuisine / Markets / Other Venue: Toei Kyoto Studio Park
Kurumazaki Shrine “Summer Purification” Special Visit: Pass Through the Grass Ring
01 Jun - 30 Jun 2025
Tours & Experiences Venue: Kurumazaki Shrine
Mitarashi Festival
19 Jul 2025
Traditional Events Venue: Kojimaza Amaterasu Mitama Shrine (Silkworm Shrine)
Onda Festival (Rice Planting Festival)
20 Jul 2025
Traditional Events Venue: Matsunoo-taisha Shrine
Kamishichiken Beer Garden
01 Jul - 06 Sep 2025
Cuisine / Markets / Other Venue: Kamishichiken Kaburenjo Theatre
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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