May in Japan begins with the longest continuous string of holidays in Japan called Golden Week! Greenery Day, Children’s Day, Constitution Memorial Day, and Showa Day are all crammed in there together. It is the single biggest travel time outside of the Bon Festival. But there is a lot more going on in May! Come find out more ;-D
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May in Japan Map of Events and Festivals
Timeline of May in Japan
25 May 2025
Onbashira Festival 2022, 2028, 2034 every six years 御柱祭 おんばしらさい(Nagano Prefecture)
Come see grown men riding huge tree trunks down a mountain then stand them up again at the once every six years festival at Suwa shrine in Nagano in April and May. ...
25 May 2025
Onbashira Festival 2022, 2028, 2034 every six years 御柱祭 おんばしらさい(Nagano Prefecture)
Come see grown men riding huge tree trunks down a mountain then stand them up again at the once every six years festival at Suwa shrine in Nagano in April and May. ...
25 May 2025
Onbashira Festival 2022, 2028, 2034 every six years 御柱祭 おんばしらさい(Nagano Prefecture)
Come see grown men riding huge tree trunks down a mountain then stand them up again at the once every six years festival at Suwa shrine in Nagano in April and May. ...
25 May 2025
Onbashira Festival 2022, 2028, 2034 every six years 御柱祭 おんばしらさい(Nagano Prefecture)
Come see grown men riding huge tree trunks down a mountain then stand them up again at the once every six years festival at Suwa shrine in Nagano in April and May. ...
25 May 2025
Onbashira Festival 2022, 2028, 2034 every six years 御柱祭 おんばしらさい(Nagano Prefecture)
Come see grown men riding huge tree trunks down a mountain then stand them up again at the once every six years festival at Suwa shrine in Nagano in April and May. ...
25 May 2025
Onbashira Festival 2022, 2028, 2034 every six years 御柱祭 おんばしらさい(Nagano Prefecture)
Come see grown men riding huge tree trunks down a mountain then stand them up again at the once every six years festival at Suwa shrine in Nagano in April and May. ...
25 May 2025
Onbashira Festival 2022, 2028, 2034 every six years 御柱祭 おんばしらさい(Nagano Prefecture)
Come see grown men riding huge tree trunks down a mountain then stand them up again at the once every six years festival at Suwa shrine in Nagano in April and May. ...
25 May 2025
Onbashira Festival 2022, 2028, 2034 every six years 御柱祭 おんばしらさい(Nagano Prefecture)
Come see grown men riding huge tree trunks down a mountain then stand them up again at the once every six years festival at Suwa shrine in Nagano in April and May. ...
25 May 2025
Onbashira Festival 2022, 2028, 2034 every six years 御柱祭 おんばしらさい(Nagano Prefecture)
Come see grown men riding huge tree trunks down a mountain then stand them up again at the once every six years festival at Suwa shrine in Nagano in April and May. ...
05 May 2025
Golden Week | ゴールデン ウィーク
Golden Week is a series of public holiday all scrunched up together that results in a week of free time in the spring. Its a big time for travel in Japan! ...
05 May 2025
Mibu Kyōgen 壬生狂言 みぶきょうげん
Mibu Kyōgen are pantomimed Buddhist prothelytizing plays that are performed every Golden Week at Kyoto's Mibu Dera temple in late April and early May. ...
25 May 2025
Onbashira Festival 2022, 2028, 2034 every six years 御柱祭 おんばしらさい(Nagano Prefecture)
Come see grown men riding huge tree trunks down a mountain then stand them up again at the once every six years festival at Suwa shrine in Nagano in April and May. ...
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