A four-day Taiwanese night market festival will fill Hibiya Park's Nireno-ki Plaza from September 3 to 6, with sky lanterns, night market games, Taiwanese beer and food, and live music bringing the atmosphere of a Taiwan night market to central Tokyo.
On August 22, 2026, Nishi Ward's long-running Insect Sound Gathering returns to Kamon-yama Park in Yokohama for its 60th edition, with lantern displays, tea ceremony, koto and shakuhachi music, and a special Otome Bunraku puppet theater performance.
This year's Welcome Garden atop Miharashi Hill at Hitachi Seaside Park has doubled in size, filling the hillside with 31 varieties of marigolds, celosia, and other colorful flowers that are expected to stay in bloom through late October.
Oktoberfest returns to Tokyo's Shiba Park from September 11 to 23, 2026, with the seasonal-only Festbier, eleven German beer brands including Japan's first pours from Saxony's MEISSNER, regional sausages, daily stage shows, and a muscle beer challenge, near Tokyo Tower.
Giant Titanbicus flowers, up to 25 cm across, are blooming near the Kaihin-guchi / Kaze no Gate and around the BMX course flower field at Hitachi Seaside Park, creating a tropical, resort-like scene through late August.
The 4th AMA-RYO-SAI 2026 takes place September 12 and 13 across three venues near Hanshin Amagasaki Station — Amagasaki Castle Ruins Park, Chuo Park, and AMA-NEST — with a brand-new water play area, festival stalls, a stamp rally, and cooling mist zones to help visitors beat the late-summer heat.