July to October, 2022

Jomon Festival 2022

A music festival, nature games, creating your own earthen figures, making fire, trying Jomon foods, lectures and more are planned to be held on the Jomon sites, which are now a World Heritage site.

September 15 to December 25, 2022

NAKED GARDEN -ONE KYOTO-

Held at Nijo Castle, Kamigamo Shrine, Ninnaji Temple and other locations, the entirety of Kyoto is presented as a single garden in this art project, where spectators wander from stage to stage .

October 1, 2022

Miare Festival

A sea-borne event held to mark the start of the major autumn festival of the Munakata Taisha Shrine to give thanks for national peace, good harvests, good catches, and safety at sea (held October 1 to 3). To allow the goddesses Tagori-hime, enshrined at the Okitsu-miya Shrine on Okinoshima island, and Tagitsu-hime, enshrined at Nakatsu-miya Shrine on Chikuzen Oshima island, to come to the Hetsu-miya Shrine on the Kyushu mainland where Ichikishima-hime is enshrined, a boat carrying the two goddesses is conveyed there in a flotilla of more than a hundred boats.

October 29 & 30, 2022

World Heritage Summit in TomiokaNaked Garden One Kyoto

This year’s main theme is “Sustainable Management of Cultural Heritage”. Discussions will cover the involvement of local communities in the conservation and utilization of cultural heritage, and earthquake preparedness in World Heritage areas.

October 29 to November 3, 2022

Recovery Festival at Shuri Castle

To raise awareness of Shuri Castle, which burned down in 2019, and to increase momentum for its reconstruction, as well as to spread information on Ryukyu culture, traditional performing arts such as Ryukyu dances and ceremonial events connected with the ancient kings and queens of the Ryukyu Kingdom will be performed, along with other related events. Reconstruction of the Main Hall at Shuri Castle is expected to be completed in 2026.

2022.10-11

Special Simultaneous Firehose Discharge

*Details to be determined