November is also full of events in Tokyo that are unique to this season! Why not stop by on weekends or after work?
1,Yellow & Autumn Leaves Festival & Autumn Night Stroll 2025 (October 31-November 30)
Visitors can enjoy the different charms of the trees changing colors in National Showa Memorial Park during the autumn foliage season, both during the day and at night. Recommended spots for viewing the autumn leaves during the daytime are the “Canard Ginkgo Trees” with beautiful ginkgo reflected on the water surface, the “Katarai Ginkgo Trees” with a 300-meter golden tunnel, and the “Japanese Garden” where you can feel the unique atmosphere of the pond kaiyushiki style. For the “Autumn Night Stroll” light-up event, in addition to the usual venues of “Katarai Ginkgo Avenues” and “Japanese Garden”, “Canard” will be added as a new venue.
📍 National Showa Memorial Park, Katarai Ginkgo Avenues, Japanese Garden, Bonsai Garden, etc.
👉Official website🚇A 10-minute walk from Higashinakagami Station to Akishima Gate near Katarai’s Ginkgo Avenues.
🎟️ Japanese garden light-up ticket admission set ticket adult ￥1,600, silver ￥1,410
2, Yakimo Fest TOKYO 2025 (October 31-November 9)
Now in its fourth year, this food event has attracted a total of more than 770,000 visitors. This year, 14 stores will offer about 30 kinds of menu items, and the sweet menu will be enhanced. The menu includes not only yaki-imo, the classic sweet potato, crepes, and deep-fried sweet potato kenpi, but also smoothies, burgers, and soups that are a cross between sweet and salty, all of which are lively in taste and appearance.
📍 Nakano Four Seasons Park Event Area (4-12 Nakano, Nakano-ku, Tokyo)
👉Official website🚇About 8 minutes walk from Nakano Station
🎟️ Admission free
3, Setagaya Bread Festival (November 1 and 2)
This annual bread festival will be held for the 15th year this year. This year again, the main venue will be Setagaya Park, where bakeries and bread makers from Setagaya Ward and all over the country will gather to enjoy bread, jams, spreads, sundries, and other bread-related items that add color to life with bread, food that goes well with bread, coffee, liquor, and various other drinks, as well as people who love bread. People who love bread gather from all over Japan.
📍 Setagaya Park, HOME/WORK VILLAGE, Mishuku 420 Shopping Association member stores
👉Official website🎟️ Admission free
4, Tokyo Mega Illumination 2025-2026 (November 1 – January 11, 2026)
The illumination, known as a winter tradition at Oi Racecourse that can be enjoyed by families, dates, and friends, will be open again this year from November 1 to January 11, 2026, for 53 days when Oi Racecourse is not in operation. In addition to the “Twinkle Light Show” and the “Edo Cherry Blossom” tunnel, both of which light up in conjunction with music, the “Miniature Horse & Pony Petting” and “Fountain x Guiding Horse Show,” which are unique to Oi Racecourse, are also recommended for families with small children.
📍 2-1-2 Katsushima, Shinagawa-ku
👉Official website🚇About 2 min. walk from Oi Keiba-mae Sta.
🎟️ Day ticket: Adults ¥1,000-, Elementary, Junior high and high school students ¥500-, Preschool children free of charge
5, Tokyo Flea Market (November 1-3)
One of the largest flea markets in Tokyo, which started in 2012, will be held at the “Midori-no Bunka Zone Yume Hiroba” in Showa Kinen Park. More than 300 stalls, the largest number to date, will sell old tools, old goods, beautifully bound old books, and other items from around the world. The “Komugi Fest,” where bread, baked goods, crepes and pizza from all over Japan gather, and the “Children’s Flea Market,” where elementary school students’ enthusiasm shines through, will also be held at the same time.
📍 National Showa Memorial Park, Midori no Bunka Zone, Yume Hiroba
👉Official website10 min. walk from Tachikawa Sta. to Yume Hiroba 🚇Midori no Bunka Zone
🎟️ Day ticket ¥2,200 (advance ticket ¥1,700)
6,Roppongi Hills Christmas 2025 (November 4 – December 25)
Keyakizaka Illumination “SNOW & BLUE” is a wintertime tradition in Roppongi. Roppongi Hills Christmas Market 2025″ will be held at the same time at Roppongi Hills’ O-Yane Plaza. A total of 10 shops, including “Käthe Wolfert,” famous for selling traditional German Christmas items all year round, and authentic German food stores such as glühwein and sausages A total of 10 stores will be lined up.
📍 Within Roppongi Hills facilities (Roppongi Keyakizaka Dori, etc.)
👉Official website🚇Roppongi Hills is directly connected to Roppongi Station Exit 1C, approx. 4 min. walk from Roppongi Station Exit 3.
🎟️ Admission free
7, Japanese Sake Fest in Nakameguro (November 8 & 9)
The concept of this sake-tasting festival is “to learn more about, feel, and share delicious Japanese sake,” and the event is “to enjoy seasonal Japanese sake, food, and Japanese culture while feeling the seasons. Many people , from sake beginners to connoisseurs, will gather to taste Japanese sake from all over Japan, talk with sake brewers, brewers and sake fans, and enjoy food and Japanese culture with Japanese dress, Japanese entertainment and music.
📍 Plaza in front of Nakameguro GT Tower (2-1-1 Kamimeguro, Meguro-ku)
👉Official websiteAdjacent to 🚇Nakameguro Station
🎟️ Sake Comparison Pass ¥3,400 ( includesall types of sake, liqueur, plum wine, etc., and 500ml ofJapanese sake)
8, Candlelight Concert (November 9)
This is a regularly held concert where visitors can listen to music in the light of more than 1,000 LED candles that envelop the venue. The concerts have been held at venues around the world, playing not only classical music, but also jazz, soul, blues, and the latest pop music, and have been well received by people who are not familiar with music appreciation, as a unique experience. The concert to be held will not only feature a live performance of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece “The Nutcracker” by the quartet, but also a ballet viewing experience together.
Click here for 🎫 tickets.
9, Fiesta de España 2025 (November 15 and 16)
One of the largest Spanish festivals in Japan, where you can enjoy a variety of flamenco throughout the venue. The program includes not only authentic flamenco performances by professional dancers, but also hands-on projects that allow the audience to dance along with the dancers, and the entire venue will be filled with the passionate rhythm of flamenco from morning till night. The event will also feature a variety of authentic Spanish gourmet foods that are hard to find in Japan, such as Fiesta de España’s famous “big pot paella,” Spanish wines, craft beers, and more.
📍 Yoyogi Park Event Plaza (2-3 Jinnan, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo)
👉Official website🚇To Yoyogi Park, about 3 minutes walk from Harajuku Station, about 3 minutes walk from Yoyogi-koen Station, about 3 minutes walk from Meiji-jingumae Station
🎟️ Admission free
10, Tokyo Christmas Advent (November 19 – December 25)
Japan’s largest Christmas market, which has attracted a total of approximately 12 million visitors, makes its first appearance in Tokyo from Fukuoka. The event, which boasts the largest number of visitors in Japan, has been renamed from “Fukuoka Christmas Market” to “Christmas Advent” in 2023 as a “Christmas event for the five senses” combining light, music, and art, and has expanded its venues to Tenjin Central Park, the plaza in front of Kihin Kan, Daimyo Garden City, and others.
📍 Ueno Onshi Park Hakamakoshi Plaza
👉Official account🚇To Ueno Onshi Park, about 2 minutes walk from Ueno Station, about 5 minutes walk from Ueno-okachimachi Station
🎟️No admission fee
11, Tokyo Christmas Market 2025 (Jingu Gaien November 21 – December 25, Shiba Park December 5 – December 25 )
A fantastic space themed on Grimm’s fairy tales and European stories will appear in Jingu Gaien, while a traditional Christmas market featuring culture and crafts from German cities will appear in Shiba Park. Both venues will feature a 14-meter-high Christmas pyramid.
📍 Meiji Jingu Gaien, in front of the Seitoku Memorial Picture Gallery and General Ballroom (2-3 Kasumigaoka-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo)
👉Official site🚇To the Seitoku Kinen Eikan Mae, it takes about 3 minutes on foot from Shinanomachi Station and about 5 minutes on foot from National Stadium Station. To Shiba Koen, about 2 min. walk from Shiba Koen Stn. or about 2 min. walk from Onarimon Stn.
🎟️No admission fee
12,Autumn Garden Lighting “TERASU” (November 22-December 7)
This is an annual event held in Mejiro Garden in Toshima Ward to illuminate the garden in autumn. The garden’s teahouse, “Sekicho-an”, will be illuminated with a concert, yoga classes, and tea ceremonies.
📍 Mejiro Garden (3-20-18 Mejiro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo)
👉Official account🚇About 5 minutes walk from Mejiro Station, about 15 minutes walk from Ikebukuro Station
🎟️300 yen during the light-up hours from 5:30pm to 9:00pm (preschool children free of charge)