Tanabata Sky Lantern Festival

Tanabata Sky Lantern Festival (七夕スカイランタン祭り)

Kyoto, Japan

Lanterns

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What it is

Lanterns in Kyoto, Japan.

Dates

The next dates have not been announced yet. We check the official site regularly and update this page when they are.

“日本最大のランタンフェスティバル『七夕スカイランタン祭り2026』”

In English: Japan's largest lantern festival, 'Tanabata Sky Lantern Festival 2026'

From snc-ts.com

Before you go

Where: Kyoto (Nagaike area, Kyoto city), Japan
Hours: OPEN 17:00〜CLOSE 21:00

How we checked

Last checked October 20, 2026 against snc-ts.com. Before anything appears here, a separate check fetches each source again and confirms that every date we show is in the quoted text.

Notes from the last check

The official site (snc-ts.com) confirms the 2026 Kyoto run of Aug 7 to 16 at Joyo Gorigori-no-Oka and states that all Kyoto dates have concluded; no 2027 Kyoto dates were found, so the next edition is recorded as tba.

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