Tokyo is packed with events in July, as the summer season is in full swing! Here are 12 carefully selected summer events and spots that will surely be unforgettable!
1, Outdoor Cinema ( July11 – 13 )
An event to enjoy outdoor movies on the lawn of Azabudai Hills’ central plaza, showing “A Midsummer Night’s Jazz 4K” on July 11 and “Stand by Me” on July 12 from 19:15. During the event, “EL CAMION,” a running craft beer bar serving craft beer from T.Y.HARBOR Brewery, and food perfect for movie-going will also be available for purchase.
📍 Azabudai Hills Central Square (1-3-1 Azabudai, Minato-ku)
👉Official website🚇Kamiyacho Station Exit 5 directly connected, Roppongi-itchome Station Exit 4, 2 min. walk.
🎟️Participation impossible fee
2, “1999 Exhibition -Memories of that day that does not exist-” July11 – September27
The exhibition recreates the unique atmosphere of the eve of 1999, the year Nostradamus predicted that the world would end, and traces the predicted “end of the world” with the guidance of “Doomsday Girl. A horror novelist, Dorsuji, a scriptwriter for the horror game “Siren,” Naoko Sato, and a young horror film director, Masaki Nishiyama, will create a horror experience.
📍 Roppongi Museum (1-3-1 Azabudai, Minato-ku)
👉Official website🚇About 7 minutes walk from Roppongi station, about 10 minutes walk from Azabu-juban station
🎟️ ¥2,500 for adults, ¥2,000 for students (junior high, high school, university), ¥1,300 for elementary school students
3, “Deep Space Exhibition: Where is Humanity Heading?
This is a large-scale space exhibition that allows visitors to experience mankind’s new challenge to space. A full-scale model of the manned lunar rover being developed by Japan for the “Artemis Project,” the first manned lunar exploration in about half a century since the Apollo missions, will be unveiled for the first time in the world.
📍 National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (2-3-6 Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo)
👉Official website🚇About 5 minutes walk from Tokyo International Cruise Terminal Station, about 4 minutes walk from Telecom Center Station
🎟️Adults (19 and older) ¥2,200 (advance tickets ¥2,000), 18 and younger (junior high school students and older) ¥1,400 (advance tickets ¥1,200), elementary school students and younger (4 and older) ¥700 (advance tickets ¥500)
4, The 78th Mitamatsuri (July 13-16)
This festival at Yasukuni Shrine began in 1947 in honor of an ancient Japanese belief. Numerous votive lanterns are hung in the shrine grounds to comfort the souls of those who died in the war. During the festival, Awa Odori dance, Aomori Nebuta, and other dedication events are also held. No stalls will be set up, but kitchen cars will be set up in the outer garden “Garden of Rest” and the central plaza.
📍 3-1-1 Kudan-kita, Chiyoda-ku
👉Official website🚇About 10 minutes walk from Iidabashi Station West Exit and Ichigaya Station, about 5 minutes walk from Kudanshita Station Exit 1
🎟️ Limited time nighttime courtyard visit ¥1,000 (free for elementary school students and younger)
5, “Klimt Alive” (July18-October5)
The world premiere of an immersive exhibition that takes visitors on a journey through the golden world of Gustav Klimt, one of the most famous Viennese painters of the late 19th century. A giant screen installed in a 7-meter-high space projects masterpieces such as “The Kiss,” “Judith,” and “Life and Death” one after another across the entire exhibition space. Visitors can enjoy Klimt’s gorgeous decorative and sensual beauty while listening to the classical music playing along with the images.
📍 Nihonbashi Mitsui Hall (4F COREDO Muromachi 1, 2-2-1 Nihonbashi Muromachi, Chuo-ku)
👉Official website🚇Direct connection from Mitsukoshimae Station, approx. 9 min. walk from East Exit of Kanda Station, approx. 9 min. walk from Nihonbashi Exit of Tokyo Station
🎟️ ¥3,000 for adults, ¥2,000 for high school and university students, ¥1,500 for elementary and junior high school students, free admission for preschool children
6, Candlelight Concerts (July 4 and 21)
This is a series of concerts held regularly at several venues in Tokyo, where you can listen to music in the light of more than 1,000 LED candles enveloping the venue. On July 4 and 21, famous musicals and Joe Hisaishi’s music will be performed.
📍 Christ Shinagawa Church, Kanze Noh Theater
👉Official website7, 51st Kagurazaka Festival (July 23-26)
A summer festival in Kagurazaka that retains the atmosphere of the Edo period. The Hozuki Market on July 23 and 24, held mainly at Bishamonten Zenkokuji Temple, will bring together super ball scooping, yo-yo fishing, and other fair games in the Bishamonten precincts, and the Awaodori dance festival will be held on July 25 and 26.
📍 Kagurazaka 1-chome to Kagurazaka-ue, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, around Kagurazaka-dori Street
👉Official website8, 28th Japanese Sake Festival in Nakameguro ( July26 & 27 )
More than 39 sake breweries from all over Japan will be exhibiting, offering more than 200 kinds of Japanese sake including sake, liqueur, and plum wine. Why not purchase a “Sake Comparison Pass” and find your favorite sake while interacting with brewers?
📍 Plaza in front of Nakameguro GT Tower (2-1-1 Kamimeguro, Meguro-ku)
👉Official websiteAdjacent to 🚇Nakameguro Station (South ticket gate, East exit 2)
🎟️ Drink Comparison Pass ¥3,400 (All types of sake, liqueur, plum wine, etc. can be compared. Includes original uchiwa (Japanese fan) and peace of water.
9, Taiwan Festa 2025 (July 25-27)
An event to enjoy Taiwanese culture and gastronomy with red lanterns decorating the summer night. The event will be held until 10 p.m. on the 25th and 26th and until 9 p.m. on the 27th.
📍 Yoyogi Park Open-Air Concert Hall Plaza (Yoyogi Park District B, Jinnan 2, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo)
👉Official website🚇About 9 min. walk from Harajuku or Meiji-jingumae Sta.
🎟️ Admission free
10, Sumida River Fireworks Display (July 26)
The Sumida River Fireworks Festival is one of Tokyo’s representative fireworks festivals, and is held on bridges and streets around the event site. 1733, following the Suijin Festival held by the shogunate in 1732 to comfort the victims of the famine and epidemic and pray for the eradication of the plague, restaurants around Ryogoku Bridge set off fireworks, which was the origin of the previous name of the Sumida River Fireworks Festival, “Ryogoku no Kawabiraki”. This is said to be the origin of the name “Ryogoku no Kawabiraki” before the Sumida River Fireworks Festival.
📍 Nearest stations to the first site: Asakusa, Oshiage, Tokyo Skytree, Hikifune; nearest stations to the second site: Asakusa, Kuramae, Ryogoku, Asakusabashi
👉Official Website11, Tachikawa Festival National Showa Memorial Park Fireworks Display (July 26)
For more than 60 years since the first Tachikawa Noryo Fireworks Festival held in 1954 on the banks of the Tama River near Hino Bridge, this festival has been loved by Tachikawa citizens and many people living in the Tama area as a summer tradition of Tachikawa. The viewing area is located in the National Showa Memorial Park Minnano Harafield, where the fireworks can be seen especially beautifully.
📍 National Showa Memorial Park Minnano Harafuchi (the nearest station is Tachikawa Station)
👉Official site🚇About 20 minutes walk from Tachikawa Gate, about 15 minutes walk from West Tachikawa Gate
🎟️ ticket with leisure seat 2 persons ¥13,200, chair seat ticket 1 person ¥8,800
12, Chidorigafuchi, the Imperial Palace Lantern Floating (July30&31)
Lantern Floating Ceremony is held at Chidorigafuchi, the Imperial Palace, a popular cherry blossom viewing spot. If you purchase a lantern by July 28, you can write a message of your choice on it.
📍 Lantern reception: Chidorigafuchi boatyard, viewing site: Kudanzaka Park
👉Official website10-minute walk from Exit 2 of Kudanshita Station, 23-minute walk from Exit 5 of Hanzomon Station to the viewing site.
🎟️ Free admission, ¥2,000 for lanterns purchased in advance