Activities Lake Towada Sky Lantern Festival 2025 Kim Bergström Running for over 50 years, the Lake Towada Sky Lantern Festival showcases approximately 2000 lanterns illuminating the summer...
Culture American Day in Misawa 2025 Shawn Swinger American Day in Misawa offers a unique experience of how a foreign community chooses to celebrate it's culture out in rural J...
Culture Nango Summer Jazz Festival 2025 Kim Bergström Held in the Nango district of Aomori's Hachinohe City, the Nango Summer Jazz Festival is one of Japan's leading jazz events. ...
Culture Hachinohe Sansha Taisai 2025 Kim Bergström Held each year from July 31st until August 4th, the Hachinohe Sansha Taisai is an event that has been awarded as one of Japan...
Culture Ominato Nebuta 2025 Shawn Swinger Celebrate summer with Ominato Nebuta, a unique Japanese festival; a procession of samurai and deity floats, literally in peop...
Culture Hirosaki Neputa Matsuri 2025 Mandy Bartok Hirosaki's Neputa Matsuri offers an impressive display of drums and floats to light up the summer evenings during the first w...
Culture Aomori Nebuta Festival 2025 Jessica Lin Nebuta festival is the biggest Tanabata festival that makes up the three great festivals of Tohoku Region.
Culture Goshogawara's Tachineputa Matsuri 2025 Justin Velgus Aomori's most famous festival may be the Nebuta festival in Aomori City, but Goshogawara also offers its own plus sized versi...
Culture Towada City Summer Fireworks Festival 2025 Kim Bergström With a history dating back to 1958, the Towada City Summer Fireworks Festival is a fixture on the Aomori events calendar in m...
Nightlife Tanabu Festival 2025 Shawn Swinger Tanabu Festival is a centuries old celebration of the end of summer involving colorful lights, massive moving shrines, dancer...
