2025 Nagasaki Lantern Festival

January 29th - February 12th, 2025

Nagasaki Kunchi / Okunchi

October 7th - 10th, every year

The pride of Nagasaki - the grand autumn festival integrating traditional culture and international flair.

Sasebo Seaside Festival

Sep 7 - 8th, 2024

Speaking of summer in Sasebo, it's Seaside Festival! Fantastic fireworks decorate the summer night sky.

Nagasaki Tall Ships Festival

Usually held on the end of April *November 4 - 5th, 2023

Yosakoi Sasebo Festival

October 18th - 20th, 2024

The largest Yosakoi event in Kyushu.

Spiny Lobster Festival, Nomozaki

September 1 - 30th, 2024

Huis Ten Bosch - Kingdom of Light

A maginificent display of 10 million lights

Emukae Sentourou (Thousand Lantern) Festival

August 23 - 24th, every year

Experience a festival over 500 years old with a lantern-lit night of wonder!

2024 Nagasaki Port Festival

July 27 - 28th, 2024

10,000 fireworks over two days!

Nakashima River Summer Festival

Mt. Nakao Autumn Ceramics Festival, Hasami

The Huis Ten Bosch Tulip Festival

February 9th - April 7th, 2024

Enter the Flower Kingdom!

Izuhara Port Festival, Tsushima Island

Celebrate the unique of history of this border island, Tsushima.

Shimbara Water Festival

August 24th, 2024

Kujukushima Oyster Festival - Fall / Winter

Doya Tanada (Rice Terrace) Festival

Usually held on the second Sunday of October

A magical scenery created by some 2,600 softly-lit lanterns along the rice terrace.

The Spirit Boat Procession / Shoronagashi

August 15th (held on the same day every year)

Nagasaki's traditional summer event

Nagasaki Kite-flying Tournament

Early April

Hataage battle, a fight that has been going on since the Edo period, in which the contestants cut off their opponents' kite.

Mizukake Jizo Festival

August 23rd・24th every year

A Summer tradition of Emukae

Maruyama Hana Festival (Maruyama Women's Festival)

November 9th - 10th, 2024

Recreating a parade of courtesans in one of the former three largest hanamachi districts in Japan.

Kanoukaen

Mar 29, 2025

Nagasaki's largest fire festival, reenacting the tales of historical scrolls.

Shiman-rokusennichi Festival

August 8th - 10th every year

The summer festival of Fukuishi Kannon

Takengei (Wakamiya Inari Shrine's Autumn Festival)

October 14th - 15th *held on the same date each year

Saikai Bridge Whirlpool Festival

Mar 16 - April 7, 2024

A great contrast of whirlpools and cherry blossoms.

Omura Flower Festival

Omura is filled with flowers from spring to early summer.

Gion Festival(Yasaka Shrine Summer Festival)

Mid-July

A Summer tradition of Uku Island. The festival has a ceremony to drive away bad luck.

Goto Kagura 【Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property】

A traditional artform unique to the Goto Islands with over 400 years of history

2025 Nomozaki Daffodil Festival

Mid/Late of January, 2025

Nagasaki Peace Memorial Ceremony

August 9th (held on the same day every year)

A prayer for everlasting world peace.

Nagasaki Settlement Festival

Mid-September

A festival reminiscent of the pride and prosperity of Nagasaki during the settlement period

Mount Inasa Azalea Festival

Nagushiyama Azalea Festival

April 3 - April 30, 2024

Breathtaking views of a hundred thousand azaleas, set against the backdrop of the northern Kujukushima Islands.

Haiki Tea Fair

May-June

Haiki Tea Fair has four hundred and some years of history, and still is as lively as ever.

Saikai Bridge Whirlpool Festival

A great contrast of whirlpools and cherry blossoms.

Hirado Flounder Festival

January 27th - March 17th, 2024

Nagasaki Peiron Championship & Port Festival

July 27th - 28th, 2024

Kamigoto Church Concerts 【Church Week 2023】

December 1st - 16th, 2023

A spiritual experience that interweaves light and sound

Arie Hamankora Beach Festival

Burning of the fields of Kawachi Pass

Shimabara Castle Town Hinameguri

Admire traditional Japanese dolls at the shops and homes around the castle town.