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
Michi-no-Eki Takumi-no-Sato
Craft workshops in an old Mikuni Kaido post town
A roadside station spread across a farming village in Minakami, where more than 20 small workshop...
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 Tomiura Biwa Club
Loquat soft serve in the heart of Boso loquat country
Chiba’s first roadside station, on Route 127 near Tomiura IC, built around the Boso loquat. Order...
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...
Michi-no-Eki Yunishigawa
A hot spring bath upstairs from a mountain railway station
A roadside station in the mountains of northern Nikko, joined directly to Yunishigawa-Onsen Stati...
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...
Miraikan
A 6-Meter Glowing Globe and Science in Progress in Odaiba
Japan's national museum of current science, opened in Odaiba in 2001 and known for Geo-Cosmos, a ...
Mitsumine Shrine
A Wolf-Guarded Shrine at 1,100 Meters, 80 Minutes by Bus Beyond Chichibu
A mountain shrine at about 1,100 meters in the far west of Chichibu, where wolves stand in for th...
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...
Mori Art Museum and Tokyo City View
Contemporary Art on the 53rd Floor, Open Until 22:00 Most Nights
A contemporary art museum on the 53rd floor of Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, with exhibitions that c...
Mount Akagi
A Caldera Lake, a Shrine on a Peninsula and a 1,828 m Day Hike
A ring of peaks around a caldera above Maebashi, with Lake Onuma and the red halls of Akagi Shrin...
Mount Haruna
Lake Haruna, a Three-Minute Ropeway and Initial D's Mount Akina
A cluster of volcanic peaks around Lake Haruna, west of Ikaho Onsen. A ropeway climbs the cone of...
Mount Kintoki
Kintaro's Mountain: 75 Minutes Up to a Fuji View on Hakone's Rim
The highest point on the Hakone caldera rim at 1,213 meters, linked by legend to the boy hero Kin...
Mount Kumotori
Tokyo's Highest Point at 2,017 m, Best Done with a Night in a Hut
At 2,017 m on the border with Saitama and Yamanashi, Kumotori is the highest point in Tokyo and o...