Autumn Music Festivals in Eastern Japan [2025–2026]

Set in Iwamuro, a hot spring area in Niigata Prefecture, this music event invites everyone to share what they love and enjoy, and to express it freely. Aiming to share the joy of spending time in the countryside, we bring out each person’s unique color, freely paint the space called Iwamuro, and share that time together by creating the event as one. Why not shift from spending your days just going into town to shop and coming home tired, to a way of living where you create your own enjoyment right in the town you call home?

It’s a community-based festival where you can feel the love for eyeglasses even from last year’s report photos. Musicians and artists wearing glasses take part, showcasing Sabae’s traditional craftsmanship. Though traditional, the glasses are anything but old-fashioned—stylish frames featuring modern designs.

The concept of this festival is to discover various locations and hold a music festival in uncharted places. Since it used to be a quarry, the staging is set against majestic rock walls and sheer 50-meter cliffs. By leveraging techniques like projection mapping, we explore new possibilities.

Nerima JAZZ Festival. At this festival, multiple stages are set up within Hikarigaoka Park, the venue, and about 40 bands perform in total. We hope you’ll go home feeling not only the music but also the charm of Nerima. True to its slogan, “Anything goes as long as it’s the best,” the festival features an exceptionally diverse lineup of outstanding artists.

The Gunma Rock Festival, which was held for three years starting in 2011, has been reborn as “Yamabito Ongakusai.” The central driving force behind the event is G-FREAK FACTORY, and the title “Yamabito” (mountain folk) was chosen to evoke Gunma Prefecture’s mountains: Mt. Akagi, Mt. Haruna, and Mt. Myogi.