From Shizuko Mishima,
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May

• Hakata Dontaku (Fukuoka City, Fukuoka)
• Kobe Festival (Kobe City, Hyogo)
• Aoi festival (Kyoto)
• Sanja matsuri (Asakusa, Tokyo)
• Aoba Festival (Sendai, Miyagi)
• Itoman Harei (Itoman City, Okinawa)

June

• Atsuta Festival (Nagoya City, Aichi)
• Yosakoi Soran Festival (Sapporo City, Hokkaido)
• Hyakumangoku Festival (Kanazawa City, Ishikawa)
• Sanno Festival (Hie Shrine, Tokyo)

July

• Mt. Fuji Open Ceremony (Yamanashi and Shizuoka)
  *Climbing Mt. Fuji
• Lavendar Festival (Kamifurano Town, Hokkaido)
• Hiratsuka Tanabata Fetival (Hiratsuka City, Kanagawa)
  *Tanabata Festival
• Yokohama Port Festival (Yokohama City, Kanagawa)
• Gion Festival (Kyoto)
• Tenjin Festival at Tenmangu (Osaka City, Osaka)
• Sumida River Firework Festival (Tokyo)
• Yonago Gaina Festival (Yonago City, Tottori)
• Chochin (paper lanterns) Festival (Kawagoe city, Saitama)
• Ashino-ko Lake Festival (Hakone, Kanagawa)

August

• Aomori Nebuta Festival (Aomori City, Aomori)
• Sendai Tanabata Festival (Sendai City, Miyagi)
• Yosakoi Festival (Kochi City, Kochi)
• Awa Dance (Tokushima City, Tokushima)
• Kyoto Daimonji Gozan Okuribi (Kyoto City, Kyoto)
• Eisa Festival (Okinawa)

Bon Festivals

Japanese Festivals: January - April / Japanese Festivals: September - December