TOKYO CREATIVE SALON 2026, one of Japan's largest creative festivals celebrating its seventh year, will be held from March 13 (Friday) to 22 (Sunday), 2026. The 10-day festival will take place across nine iconic Tokyo areas: Marunouchi, Nihonbashi, Ginza, Akasaka, Roppongi, Shibuya, Harajuku, Shinjuku, and Haneda. Admission is free.
The 2026 theme is "FUTURE VINTAGE—Passing the Memory of the Past to the Future, Creating Anew."
By interpreting the cultural layers accumulated in the city, the festival aims to showcase expressions worthy of the next generation, transmitting Tokyo's creativity to the world.
About TOKYO CREATIVE SALON (TCS)
TOKYO CREATIVE SALON (TCS) is "Japan's largest creative festival" launched in 2020 with the goal of broadcasting Tokyo's creativity to the world.
During cherry blossom season, it serves as a "Tokyo-born creative week" where urban creativity—spanning fashion, design, art, technology, crafts, and more—spreads throughout the city, offering diverse expressions.
Utilizing the entire city as a stage for various creative works, TCS has welcomed numerous visitors. In its 2025 edition, the total attendance exceeded 1.25 million, attracting attention both domestically and internationally. With a mission to connect the value and potential of Japan's creativity to society, eras, and the future, TCS continues to enhance Tokyo's cultural value.
TOKYO CREATIVE SALON 2026 Event Overview
Name: TOKYO CREATIVE SALON 2026
Period: March 13 (Friday) to 22 (Sunday), 2026
Areas: Marunouchi, Nihonbashi, Ginza, Akasaka, Roppongi, Shibuya, Harajuku, Shinjuku, Haneda
Admission: Free
Organizer: Tokyo Creative Salon Executive Committee
Official Website: https://tokyo-creativesalon.com/
Official Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tokyocreativesalon/
Official X: https://x.com/tokyo_c_s
TOKYO CREATIVE SALON 2026 Content Overview
TCS 2026 will unfold an even larger-scale program throughout Tokyo.
City Wide Program
This year, the "City Wide Program" will be held across nine areas: Marunouchi, Nihonbashi, Ginza, Akasaka, Roppongi, Shibuya, Harajuku, Shinjuku, and Haneda. Under the theme "FUTURE VINTAGE—Passing the Memory of the Past to the Future, Creating Anew," the program will leverage each area's history, culture, origins, and individuality to spread diverse creative content—fashion, design, art, crafts, and more—throughout the city.
The "City Wide Program" treats the experience of encountering creativity while touring Tokyo's neighborhoods as content itself. It's a core TCS initiative enabling visitors to experience creativity alongside each area's background and atmosphere through inter-area circulation, allowing them to feel the appeal of how urban space and creativity resonate together.
Tokyo Vintage Fashion Week
"Tokyo Vintage Fashion Week" is a new fashion event focusing on vintage culture. Taking place from March 13 (Friday) to 15 (Sunday), 2026, at Shinjuku Sumitomo Building Triangle Plaza, the event will develop various contents aimed at conveying vintage fashion's appeal to a broad audience. An "antique clothing market" featuring approximately 100 shops will display and sell diverse vintage items. Additionally, a fashion show expressing the "historical background" and "stories" embedded in vintage clothing through styling will create a space where visitors can experience the value of vintage culture. Through this event, the organizers aim to reexamine Japanese vintage culture—which has received high praise internationally—from a contemporary perspective and pass it on to the future.
Focus Exhibition "Tokyo Trace"
For creators, Tokyo is not merely a stage but a city that continues to inscribe creative memories. The cityscape, encounters with people, and accumulated culture leave traces in the heart, eventually crystallizing into works. "Tokyo Trace" is an exhibition focusing on certain brands or designers, exploring traces of Tokyo breathing within their creative backgrounds. It unravels memories and experiences given by the city, as well as craftsmanship born precisely because of Tokyo. In its inaugural year, the exhibition will spotlight NOMARHYTHM TEXTILE, which has core fans globally and has built a diverse network. The exhibition will be held from March 13 (Friday) to 15 (Sunday), 2026, at Shinjuku Sumitomo Building Triangle Plaza.
Mainichi Fashion Grand Prix
Continuing from last year, a collaboration project with the "Mainichi Fashion Grand Prix," a representative fashion award of Japan, will be implemented. Since its establishment in 1983, the Mainichi Fashion Grand Prix has honored designers and creators who have made notable achievements in Japan's fashion industry, supporting the development of Japanese fashion culture over many years. Each year, it has highlighted expressions and initiatives symbolizing the era, indicating the current position of Japan's fashion scene.
This year's collaboration with the Mainichi Fashion Grand Prix will also transmit Tokyo's cultural value as a fashion city, both domestically and internationally.
About the TOKYO CREATIVE SALON 2026 Logo
As a city possessing the world's fastest pace in creating new styles and the flexibility to embrace them, the area logos symbolize the creativity of making the future from the fusion of past and present. They express the expansive viewpoint and attitude of cultural and technological expansion. The main cherry blossom symbol entrusts the appearance of diverse cultures from each area gathering and blooming in spring.
(Creative Director: Shin Mononobe)
Tokyo Creative Salon Executive Committee
Comment from Hisashi Sugiyama, General Director, Tokyo Creative Salon 2026 Executive Committee
Tokyo possesses vast "creative layers" inherited across generations and genres. TOKYO CREATIVE SALON is an initiative to reconnect those layers with contemporary sensibility, transforming the city itself into a stage for expression.
The 2026 theme "FUTURE VINTAGE" embodies the challenge of reopening memories inscribed in the city of Tokyo and creating future culture. By encountering creativity through walking the streets, new value emerges within people's experiences. We aim to create moments that become "future vintage" by uniting the power of nine areas and diverse creators. We will strive to make these 10 days advance Tokyo's culture and creativity further.
Profile:
CEO of Shinryoiki Co., Ltd. / Art+Tech Producer.
Serves as General Director for the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo Signature Pavilion "Proof of Life" project, General Director of "Tokyo Creative Salon" in 2026, and Exhibition Director for the Theme Hall of "GREEN×EXPO 2027." He engages in creating new experiences and spaces while traversing art and technology.
Comment from Hiroshi Ohnishi, Chairman, Tokyo Creative Salon 2026 Executive Committee
As seen in Italy's Milan Salone and France's Comité Colbert, initiatives where companies, creators, and cities unite to revitalize economies through craftsmanship and transmit their appeal to the world are deployed in various countries.
TOKYO CREATIVE SALON is also an attempt to showcase Japan's world-class creativity using the entire city of Tokyo as a stage.
This year, under the theme "FUTURE VINTAGE," we challenge expressions connecting culture and memories accumulated in the city to the future. By having diverse expressions—fashion, design, art, technology, and more—intersect in each area representing Tokyo, we will transmit Japan's unique creativity and value domestically and internationally.
Profile:
Born in Tokyo. Graduated from Keio University in 1979.
After serving as President of Mitsukoshi Isetan Holdings, he joined Japan Airport Terminal Co., Ltd. as Executive Vice President in June 2018. From July of the same year, he concurrently served as President and Executive Officer of Haneda Future Research Institute, Inc.
Aiming to create new value inside and outside Haneda Airport, he has focused on regional revitalization and cultural/art dissemination. (Retired as Executive Vice President of Japan Airport Terminal Co., Ltd. on June 26, 2025.)
Fashion Director Tomonori Matsui
Profile:
Born December 12, 1977, in Gifu Prefecture. Joined H.P.FRANCE Co., Ltd. in 2000, working in in-house retail shops and PR departments. In 2006, he launched PR01. and became Executive Director. He has been involved in promotion and branding for a wide range of clients, from fashion brands to local governments.
In March 2017, he established Onew Inc. and became Representative Director. In 2019, he launched "EQUALAND," a project aiming to connect people sharing equal values, promoting various initiatives with partners including shops, brands, and city-building projects.
Creative Director Shin Mononobe
Profile:
After accumulating a career as an in-house designer at a domestic manufacturer, he moved to the UK in 2010. He learned branding know-how at London creative firm Winkreative. In 2016, he founded Anyhow Ltd. in the UK, providing branding services to a wide range of industries as Creative Director, including government agencies, manufacturers, fashion brands, and restaurants. From brand strategy formulation to project planning, communication strategies, and various designs, he conducts consistent branding business. In 2021, he established Anyhow Inc. in Japan. He started the in-house project "A Piece of Gold" exhibition and further launched and operates the in-house product/sneaker brand Clemens.
TOKYO CREATIVE SALON 2025 Results
Period: March 13 (Thursday) to 23 (Sunday), 2025
Total Attendance: 1.25 million
Implementation Areas: Marunouchi, Nihonbashi, Ginza, Akasaka, Roppongi, Shibuya, Harajuku, Shinjuku, Haneda, Yurakucho
