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START: Jan 3, 2019END: Jan 3, 2019Festival
Tama Seseri
For over 500 years, two teams of loincloth-clad men have braved the winter cold to scramble for possession of an 8 kg wooden ball in this unique New Year’s ritual. Victory for the ...
START: Jan 7, 2019END: Jan 7, 2019Festival
Daizenji Tamataregu no Oniyo
This 1,600-year-old tsuina (ceremony to exorcise evil spirits) is one of Japan’s three main fire festivals. After being guarded for seven days, the “devil fire” is transferred to s...
START: Jan 8, 2019END: Jan 11, 2019Festival
Toka Ebisu New Year Festival
A grand festival dedicated to Ebisu, the god of prosperous fishing and business. As such, it is customary for Fukuoka businessmen to visit the Toka Ebisu Shrine during the New Year...
START: Jan 12, 2019END: Jan 12, 2019Stage
Annual New Year’s Firefighters’ Parade
Watch the firefighters of Fukuoka perform traditional acrobatic stunts on a bamboo ladder, matoi flag waving (an old way of warning when there was a fire) and more. From 12:45 visi...
START: Jan 13, 2019END: Jan 13, 2019Sports
Japan Rugby Top League Cup 2018-2019
The year 2019 will be an exciting one for Fukuoka as one of the host cities for Rugby World Cup 2019. Get in the mood with two Top League Cup playoff matches taking place in Kitaky...
START: Nov 23, 2018END: Jan 14, 2019Exhibition
Krank Marcello Exhibition
The dream-like atmosphere inside the Fukuoka-based furniture store “krank” and apparel and handicraft store “marcello” will be recreated in the Artium art gallery for this exhibiti...
START: Mar 17, 2018END: Jan 14, 2019Exhibition
Hizen Saga Bakumatsu-Meiji Restoration Expo 2018
Step back in time and experience Saga during an era of dramatic change and upheaval! Commemorating 150 years since the Meiji Restoration, this exhibition provides...
START: Nov 23, 2018END: Jan 20, 2019Art
Woodcut Movements in Asia 1930s-2010s
Approximately 400 woodcut works are on display in this first large-scale exhibition of the woodcut movements throughout Asia. The exhibition aims to show the development of woodcut...
START: Jan 19, 2019END: Jan 21, 2019Exhibition
70th Kagu Show Japan
It’s the biggest furniture event in western Japan! Browse for high quality and new products including planks of Yakushima cedar from 70 companies from around Japan. Buy on the spot...
START: Jan 23, 2019END: Jan 23, 2019Festival
Hatsukoshin Festival
A New Year custom in which people visit the small Sarutahiko Shrine from early morning to line up and buy monkey masks handmade by Hakata ningyo doll makers. The masks are hung in ...
