When you travel, you want to make sure you don't miss out exciting major events that are held only once a year, right? Or maybe you want to arrange your trip around a season that has a bunch of big festivals going on. This section's a place to introduce major events that are going to be held one-two months ahead, and it covers the entire country. More and more information will be added all year long, so whether you're thinking or not of traveling to the country of festivals keep your eyes fixed on this page and see what kinds of things are going on in Japan!

Red and white plum blossoms of about 100 breeds and 3,000 trees bloom at once at the end of winter and beginning of spring, and the plum blossoms at Kairakuen have known to be one of the most beautiful and famous for centuries. As being one of the noble cities that were directly ruled by the Tokugawa clans back in Edo Period, the manner of viewing ume blossoms is truly elegant with various cultural subevents held such as outdoor performances of koto (Japanese harp), shakuhachi (bamboo flute), gagaku (traditional court music), tea ceremonies, noh (stage) and more.

Emburi is a folk entertainment representing the Hachinohe Region of the northern prefecture of snow, and is designated as a significant intangible folk cultural asset by the country. It is also one of the Three Winter Festivals of Aomori as well as one of the Five Michinoku Grand Snow Festivals.
The biggest characteristic of Emburi is probably the dance performed by dancers called tayu wearing a gorgeous eboshi (a kind of Japanese tophat) designed like a head of a horse praying for good harvest during the year. The movements the tayu make in the dances are in fact the movements of rice growing, expressing the process from sowing all the way to harvesting.