Eastern Japan Rock Festival Information List [2025–2026]
Here’s a consolidated guide to rock festivals taking place in eastern Japan.
There are so many festivals that it’s hard to track all the information, right?
We’ve put together details to help people like you.
Check it out so you don’t miss a festival that suits your taste!
- List of Rock Festivals in Tohoku [2025]
- List of Rock Festivals in the Kanto Region [2025]
- [2025] Guide to Music Festivals and Outdoor Events in Hokkaido and the Tohoku Region
- Winter Music Festivals in Eastern Japan [2025]
- List of Rock Festivals Nationwide [2025]
- Summer Music Festival Schedule Summary [2025]
- Fukushima Music Festivals [2025] – Outdoor Festivals and Event Roundup
- Kanto’s Popular Music Festivals [2025]: A Complete Guide to Outdoor Events for Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter
- [2025] Complete Kanto Summer Festival Guide: Music Festivals and Outdoor Festival Info
- List of Eastern Japan Summer Festivals [2025]: Rock Festivals and Outdoor Music Festivals Held During Summer Vacation
- List of Rock Festivals in Tokai [2025]
- Miyagi Music Festivals [2025]: Outdoor Festivals and Events Summary
- ARABAKI ROCK FEST. | Music Festival & Event
Past events
Apple Music FestivalSat 9/27 – Sun 9/28, Nagano Prefecture
It was started by an organizer who has lived in Matsumoto for many years and wanted to make the city he loves even better through music. Matsumoto hosts events like the classical Saito Kinen Festival and the summer festival Matsumoto Bonbon, but because there weren’t any events centered on youth-oriented popular music, the Ringo Music Festival focuses on popular music—including J-pop, as well as rock and hip-hop.
| Schedule | Saturday, September 27, 2025 – Sunday, September 28, 2025 |
| place | Alps Park, Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture |
| Website | http://ringofes.info/ |
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TOKYO CALLINGSat, Sep 27 – Sun, Sep 28, Tokyo
Now that diversity of values has become the norm, following the boom of large-scale music festivals, the new focus is on “live circuits,” in which multiple live music venues are rented out and concerts are held simultaneously across them. In this context, three of the nation’s premier circuit festivals—Osaka’s Mihoudai, Nagoya’s Dera Rock, and Fukuoka’s TENJIN ONTAQ—are joining forces in Tokyo to stage one of Japan’s largest live circuits.
| Schedule | Saturday, September 27, 2025 – Sunday, September 28, 2025 |
| place | Tokyo Metropolis, Shinjuku City: Zepp Shinjuku (TOKYO) / Shinjuku LOFT / Shinjuku LOFT bar / Shinjuku Marble / Shinjuku MARZ / Shinjuku SAMURAI / Zirco Tokyo / HOLIDAY SHINJUKU / club SCIENCE / Shinjuku HEIST / Shinjuku Motion / Shinjuku ACB HALL; Shibuya: Spotify O-EAST / O-WEST / O-nest / O-Crest / duo MUSIC EXCHANGE / SHIBUYA DESEO / Shibuya Milkyway / WOMBLIVE / Club Malcolm / SHIBUYA CLUB QUATTRO / TAKE OFF7 / Veats Shibuya / Chelsea Hotel / Star Lounge |
| Website | https://tokyo-calling.jp/ |
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PLACESun, Sep 21 — Ibaraki Prefecture
| Schedule | Sunday, September 21, 2025 |
| place | Kawaraigo Kitahama Sports Plaza, Hitachi City, Ibaraki Prefecture |
| Website | https://www.place-hitachi.com/ |
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Iwamurock FESTIVALNiigata Prefecture, Sat 9/20 – Sun 9/21
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?
| Schedule | Saturday–Sunday, September 20–21, 2025 |
| place | 96-1 Iwamuro Onsen, Nishikan-ku, Niigata-shi, Niigata Prefecture |
| Website | http://iwamurockfestival.com/ |
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Yamabito Music FestivalSat 9/20 – Sun 9/21, Gunma Prefecture
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.
| Schedule | Saturday–Sunday, September 20–21, 2025 |
| place | Japan Totor Green Dome Maebashi, Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture |
| Website | http://yamabito-ongakusai.com/ |
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AKABIRA CAMP BREAKHokkaido, Sat 9/20–Sun 9/21
| Schedule | Saturday–Sunday, September 20–21, 2025 |
| place | Hokkaido Akabira City Elm Highland Resort |
| Website | https://campbreak.com/ |
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PUNK LIVES!Sun, Sep 14 — Kanagawa Prefecture
| Schedule | Sunday, September 14, 2025 |
| place | CLUB CITTA’, Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture |
| Website | https://punklives-festival.com/ |
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