Things to Do in Kanto, Japan
Tokyo and its surroundings, from neon districts to the temples of Nikko and the coast of Kamakura.
216 destinations across 7 prefectures
Festivals in Kanto
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Tsuchiura Fireworks
7 November 2026
Ibaraki · Fireworks festival
Koedo Kawagoe Fireworks
21 November 2026
Saitama · Fireworks festival
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Chichibu Yomatsuri
2 to 3 December 2026
Saitama · Float procession
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Comiket
29 to 31 December 2026
Tokyo · Festival
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Sanja Matsuri
14 to 16 May 2027
Tokyo · Float procession
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Sumida River Fireworks
31 July 2027
Tokyo · Fireworks festival
Joso Kinugawa Fireworks
Expected September 2027
Ibaraki · Fireworks festival
Kounosu Fireworks
Expected October 2027
Saitama · Fireworks festival
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Places to Visit in Kanto
Tokyo Big Sight
Tokyo Big Sight: Japan's Largest Convention Centre
The inverted pyramids on Tokyo Bay. Japan's biggest exhibition venue, and the home of Comiket.
Yasukuni Shrine
Tokyo's Official Cherry Tree and a 25-Meter Torii at Kudanshita
A large Shinto shrine at the top of Kudan-zaka, founded in 1869, that enshrines those who died fo...
Asakusa Hanayashiki
Japan's oldest amusement park, squeezed in behind Sensoji
A tiny park a few minutes' walk from Sensoji that began as a flower garden in 1853. Its 1953 roll...
Fukagawa Edo Museum
A Full-Size 1840s Fukagawa Street You Can Walk Into, for 400 Yen
A city museum that rebuilds a corner of Fukagawa Saga-cho as it looked in the Tenpo era (1830s to...
Futarasan Shrine
The Shrine Behind Nikko's Red Shinkyo Bridge, Quieter Than Tosho-gu Next Door
The shrine of Mount Nantai, in the cedars a few minutes west of Tosho-gu, and owner of the vermil...
Izu Oshima
A Live Volcano and a Black Ash Desert, 1h45 by Jet Foil from Tokyo
The largest of the Izu Islands, about 120 km south of central Tokyo, built around Mt. Mihara (758...
Kinugawa Onsen
A Riverside Hotel Town Two Hours From Asakusa, With a Boat Down the Gorge and a Free Footbath at the Station
A long line of big hotels on both banks of the Kinu River gorge, about two hours from Asakusa on ...
MOMAT (National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo)
Japanese Art Since Meiji, With a View Over the Palace Moat
Japan's first national art museum, opened in 1952 and in Kitanomaru Park since 1969. The MOMAT Co...
Michi-no-Eki Hakone Toge
A mountain-pass stop above Lake Ashi
Kanagawa's first michi-no-eki, opened in 1995 at Hakone Pass on Route 1, close to the Shizuoka bo...
Michi-no-Eki Tamatsukuri
Lake Kasumigaura views at the foot of the big bridge
A lakeside station at the eastern end of the Kasumigaura Ohashi bridge, next to the 60 m Rainbow ...
Michi-no-Eki Utsunomiya Romantic Mura
A farm park with a hot spring and brewery outside Utsunomiya
A 46-hectare farm park on Route 293, about five minutes from the Utsunomiya interchange. Come for...
Michi-no-Eki Yamba Furusatokan
A footbath beside the new bridges of Yamba Dam
A stop on the Route 145 Yamba bypass at the foot of Fudo Ohashi, one of the bridges built for Yam...
Mikurajima
Mikurajima: The Izu Island Where the Ferry Often Cannot Dock and You Need a Booked Bed to Land
A round, cliff-walled island about 200 km south of Tokyo with one small village, old-growth fores...
Miyake-jima
Walk Past a School Buried by Lava on a Still-Active Volcano Island
A round volcanic island about 180 km off Honshu whose 2000 eruption and the gas that followed emp...
Mount Oyama
Edo's Pilgrim Peak: A Cable Car to Afuri Shrine, Then 90 Minutes Up
A 1,252-meter peak in the Tanzawa range that drew some 200,000 pilgrims a year in the Edo period....