
Okera Mairi: Old Year’s Eve at Yasaka-jinja Shrine
Want to ensure peace and prosperity for the new year? You might have to stay up all night.
Want to ensure peace and prosperity for the new year? You might have to stay up all night.
Usually only view-able from the stone foundation of the former castle keep, the Nijo-jo Castle gardens are being opened to celebrate the new year.
The whole of USJ will get a blanket of festive fun. Expect cheery decorations and a massive show under the impressive 30-meter-tall glowing Christmas tree.
Spend your Christmas wrapped up in the midst of the beautiful Fukuoka Christmas Market and Illuminations,
Daruma make for one of the most traditional Japanese festivals you're likely to see at this event,
Join in this noisy and raucous festival as people knock on wooden boards to get the attention of a lucky God.
Put some heat into your winter and New Year with this steamy (in more ways than one!) festival.
See dozens of loincloth-clad men and boys doused in very cold water as they compete in teams for banknotes.
Teams race to be the first to reach the shrine and onlookers also push to touch the special charms of this shrine.
See an entire mountainside in Nara go up in flames as fireworks are launched behind it.
An amazing chance to see a remote, snow-covered thatched village illuminated with hundreds of lanterns.
Head to Nagasaki Lantern Festival to celebrate the Lunar New Year.
Visit one of the best illuminations in Japan and relive the wonder of the spring wisteria.
See a traditional Japanese village lit up bright on a cold winter's night.
Visit an illuminated winter wonderland with fireworks each night in Aomori.