Events

Oct. 19 ~

Nov. 8
Hakata Geigi Experience

Step into Hakata’s geigi culture with this intimate transformation experience in Hakata Old Town. Participants are styled as...
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- #Others
- #Hakata-ku
Nov. 14
13th Kyushu Biggest Fireworks Festival

One of western Japan’s largest fireworks events, this spectacular autumn display features approximately 22,000...
- #Festival
- #Sasebo
Nov. 13 ~

Nov. 15
Hakataori Juried Exhibition

This annual juried exhibition brings together new works of Hakataori, one of Hakata’s best-known traditional crafts. Held at Jotenji Temple, regarded...
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- #Hakata-ku
Nov. 8 ~

Nov. 22
Fukuoka Grand Sumo Tournament

The Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament, the final tournament of the professional sumo calendar, returns to...
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- #Hakata-ku
Nov. 3 ~

Nov. 23
Sumo Culture and Traditional Crafts: A Special Exhibition

November in Fukuoka means sumo. As wrestlers arrive for the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament, the city welcomes a familiar autumn tradition. Marking the...
- #Art
- #Culture
Sep. 29 ~

Nov. 23
Hakata Machiya Furusatokan Autumn Collection

This autumn exhibition presents tools of the trade and everyday household items donated by old Hakata merchant families. The collection traces...
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- #Hakata-ku
Nov. 27
Kino Guitarist Yuri Kasparyan Comes to Fukuoka

Kino guitarist Yuri Kasparyan will appear at Fukuoka Art Museum on Nov. 27 for a special public event on Soviet rock music, organized by...
- #Film
- #Music
- #Seminar
- #Chuo-ku
Dec. 5
Hakata Odori

Sixteen geigi from Hakata Kenban, the organization that preserves Hakata’s geigi tradition, come together for this annual year-end...
- #Culture
- #Stage
- #Hakata-ku