This Golden Week: Tokyo Area Events For May 1-7

Cultural Celebrations

Cambodia Festival 2023

The largest Cambodian festival in Japan, this event features everything from the country's delicious food to souvenir markets and traditional live performances such as Khmer classical dance.

Beer, Sausages, And Fun

Yokohama Frühlings Fest 2023

Frühlingfest is a German festival, held to welcome spring. Come taste over 200 kinds of German food and beer, see great performances, enjoy an outdoor anime viewing and other fun events with the kids, in addition to buying yourself some unique German omiyage for back home.

Purple Canopy

Kameido Tenjin Wisteria Festival

Every year around this time, Kameido Tenjin Shrine in Koto Ward attracts thousands of visitors when its famous cascades of hanging purple wisteria (fuji) come to full bloom offering one of the most picturesque sceneries in central Tokyo. Apart from admiring the beautiful flowers, with hourly mini events, the festival is also a great place to enjoy vibrant cultural activities and the regular matsuri food stalls.

Just Keep Swimming

Koinobori Tokyo Tower

Watch Koinobori take over the best of Tokyo Tower at 333 meters height. Koinobori, also known as Carp Streamer, is a traditional decoration used to celebrate children and livelihood. An absolute stunning sight to see for the day and night.

Jurassic Shibuya

Dinosaur Live: Dino Safari

Hop on a safari ride into Jurassic Park this weekend. Using realistic dino-tronic technology, dinosaurs such as T-rex and Triceratops will literally come to life in Shibuya. Talk about a thrill of a lifetime.

All These Flowers!

Showa Memorial Park Flower Map

The Tachikawa’s Showa Memorial Park is currently hosting the annual Flower Festival, which includes thousands of beautiful tulips and other colorful spring flowers of all kinds. It's the perfect venue to escape from the crowds of Tokyo and enjoy a slow day in the park. From flower viewing to water play, this park is heaven for family outings!

Run With The World

Wings For Life 2023

Download the Wings for Life World Run App and start running with thousands of people around the world at the exact same time. You'll run as far as you can until the Catcher Car passes you. And you'll be doing all that running not only for yourself but for a good cause. 100% of your starting fees goes into spinal cord research and will help to find a cure for spinal cord injury.

Saturday In The Park

Tokyo Midtown: Open The Park

Soak up the sun at Tokyo Midtown's annual spring Open The Park event, a series of relaxed and fun open-air activities. On the agenda this year is a stunning decoration of some immense koi-nobori by 112 artists, a Street Art Museum, koinobori workshops for the kids, opportunities to read at the outdoor library, a Hawaii-inspired cafe and more. Grab your picnic basket and spend a day at the park!

A Classic Tale

Shakespeare Double Bill

The National Theater of Tokyo will be presenting a limited run of a double bill play based on works by William Shakespeare. Macbeth as choreographed by Will Tuckett an Olivier award-winner and The Dream as choreographed by Sir Frederick Ashton take center stage.

Meat Heaven

Niku Fes Tokyo (Meat Festival)

The popular Niku Festival (Meat Festival) brings together around 20 well-known meat restaurants from across Japan and lets visitors try their best dishes. Besides delicious and savory meat for you to try, there will also be about 30 stalls with craft beer and confectionery goods to maximize your indulgence. The event is so popular that it gathers over five million visitors per year. If the killer combo of meat and beer is not enough for you, there will also be live performances by various artists.

5 Tokyo Fashion Trends You’ll See Styled with Denim This Spring 2023

Trends come and go, but our beloved jeans will always be here to stay. To be honest, it’ll never be a question of “if it will go out of style” but more “how it should be worn.” Especially this spring: 2023 in Tokyo is all about achieving that cool x feminine street-style look with denim.

A Guide Around Tokyo

10 Things To Do In Golden Week (That Won’t Leave You Stuck In Queues)

As we wave goodbye to the fleeting sakura season, it’s time to start looking forward to another favorite time of the year: the Golden Week. These series of national Japanese holidays falling from late April to early May are what many Japanese salarymen live for and the cause of a massive travel exodus both within and out of Japan.