Kyushu Tanabata Star Festivals

20 events

20 Tanabata events in Kyushu. 6 with 2026 dates, 14 showing the last edition's dates (next dates not yet announced). Featured: Oita Tanabata Festival.

EndedPick

Aug 7–8, 2026

Oita Tanabata Festival

Chuomachi, Oita City, Oita

A signature Oita summer festival in the city center, enlivened by the spirited 'Funai Pacchin' warrior floats and Tanabata decorations, drawing some 390,000 visitors over two days.

Ended

Jun 4 – Jul 6, 2025Last edition

Kagoshima City Science Hall Tanabata Decoration

Kagoshima, Kagoshima

A recurring indoor Tanabata event where large bamboo with strips and streamers is displayed and visitors can add their own wishes, rain or shine.

Ended

Jun 25 – Jul 7, 2025Last edition

Usa Sora-no-Sato Tanabata Decorations

Usa, Oita

At a history and peace-learning facility tied to the former Usa Naval Air Group, visitors write wishes and decorate bamboo; the opening day features local preschoolers decorating and singing.

Ended

Jun 29 – Jul 31, 2025Last edition

Sasebo Yonkacho Tanabata Festival

Sasebo, Nagasaki

Japan's longest straight arcade fills with Tanabata decorations; shoppers write wishes on provided strips, with a calligraphy contest and kindergarten art display.

Ended

Jul 1–7, 2025Last edition

Hamanmachi Tanabata Festival (Hamanomachi Arcade)

Hamanomachi, Nagasaki City, Nagasaki

A downtown Tanabata event in Nagasaki's largest shopping district, the Hamanomachi Arcade, where shoppers write wishes on strips and hang them on bamboo.

Ended

Jul 1 – Jul 8, 2025Last edition

Isahaya Shrine Tanabata Decorations

Isahaya, Nagasaki

The city's guardian shrine sets up bamboo so visitors can freely write and hang wish strips for Tanabata; open to all with no offering required.

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Ended

Jul 3–7, 2025Last edition

Takamori Spring Water Tunnel Tanabata Festival

Takamori, Aso District, Kumamoto

A fantastical 'cool-evening' Tanabata festival in Takamori, Aso, where 5-meter decorations line a roughly 550-meter tunnel, with reflections on the water and trout-catching for kids.

Ended

Jul 3–12, 2025Last edition

Peace Tanabata Festival (Okinawa Peace Memorial Park)

Mabuni, Itoman, Okinawa

An event at Okinawa Peace Memorial Park in Mabuni—where the Battle of Okinawa ended—using the Tanabata custom to reflect on peace, as visitors write strips with messages of remembrance and peace.

Ended

Jul 4–5, 2025Last edition

Castle Town Kumamoto Tanabata Festival

Chuo Ward, Kumamoto City, Kumamoto

A downtown Tanabata festival across central Kumamoto's shopping arcades, including Sunroad Shinshigai, with decorations, stage events, and workshops.

Ended

Jul 4–12, 2025Last edition

Nobeoka Tanabata Festival

Yamashita-cho, Nobeoka, Miyazaki

A Tanabata festival of over half a century's history that fills Nobeoka's Yamashita Shintengai arcade with handmade 'mitate-zaiku' figures and bamboo decorations made by shops and local children.

Ended

Jul 4–5, 2025Last edition

Tanabata Fun Fun Market (iias Okinawa Toyosaki)

Toyosaki, Tomigusuku, Okinawa

A market event held around Tanabata at the large iias Okinawa Toyosaki mall, with wish-strip decorating, yukata rental, and a nighttime stargazing program.

Ended

Jul 5–7, 2025Last edition

Fukuoka Tower Tanabata Festival

Momochihama, Sawara Ward, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka

A Star Festival event at the 234-meter Fukuoka Tower, where a roughly 150-meter 'Milky Way illumination' lights up and the plaza bustles with food stalls and festival games.

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Ended

Jul 6–7, 2025Last edition

Tsuma Shrine Tanabata Koromogae Festival

Tsuma, Saito, Miyazaki

A traditional 'koromogae' rite held around Tanabata at Tsuma Shrine in Saito, where the deity's vestments are changed to summer robes, accompanied by Tanabata decorations.

Ended

Jul 7 – Jul 10, 2025Last edition

Sengan-en Shimazu Family Traditional Tanabata

Kagoshima, Kagoshima

A recreation of the Shimazu family's Tanabata custom, raising a 10m-tall five-colored Tanabata decoration against a Sakurajima backdrop in a historic feudal garden.

Ended

Aug 1, 2025Last edition

Saga Shrine Tanabata Festival

Matsubara, Saga City, Saga

A Tanabata rite held on the first Saturday evening of August at Saga Shrine, which enshrines the lords of the Saga domain, with wish-strips for skill and study plus a concert and court-music performances.

Ended

Jul 1 – Aug 31, 2026

Miyajidake Shrine Furin Festival

Miyaji Motomachi, Fukutsu, Fukuoka

A summer 'cool-evening' event where about 3,000 wind chimes and lights recreate the Milky Way along the inner-shrine approach, with Tanabata decorations and wish-strips at the main hall and gate.

Ended

Jul 4, 2026

Koshi Rakuza Horai Tanabata Market

Taku, Saga

A Tanabata-themed festival and market by the Taku Confucius Temple, one of Japan's three great Confucian temples; food, goods, live music and painting, with a closing handheld-fireworks finale.

Ended

Aug 5–7, 2026

Kaseda Yumepika Honmachi Tanabata Festival

Kaseda, Minamisatsuma, Kagoshima

A month-delayed Tanabata festival in the Honmachi-dori shopping street (Yumepika) of Kaseda, Minamisatsuma, with decorations, stage events, and food stalls.

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Ended

Aug 6–7, 2026

Tanabata Shrine (Himekoso Shrine) Summer Festival

Osaki, Ogori, Fukuoka

A summer festival at Himekoso Shrine, fondly known as the rare 'Tanabata Shrine' that enshrines the weaver goddess, with dedication rites, a lion procession, food stalls, and an evening stage show.

Ended

Aug 7, 2026

Oshima Tanabata Festival (Munakata Taisha Nakatsugu)

Oshima, Munakata, Fukuoka

On Oshima Island, said to be the birthplace of Japan's Tanabata legend, Munakata Taisha Nakatsugu holds a Tanabata rite said to date to the Kamakura period on the month-delayed date of August 7.