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SF’s “Japan Day 2025” Summer Cultural Festival (Japantown)

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Sunday, June 22, 2025 - 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Cost: FREE
Studio Gen Stage, Hotel Kabuki Stage, Japan Center East Mall Stage | Japan Center East Mall, San Francisco, CA

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SF’s “Japan Week 2025” Cultural Summer Festival (June 15-22)

Japan Week is a summer cultural festival featuring performances, workshops & demonstrations in San Francisco Japantown.

Japan Week

June 15-22, 2025
San Francisco Japantown

Join us for our annual summer festival of Japanese arts and culture. Enjoy performances of taiko drumming, awa odori dance, Okinawan drumming and dance, karate, and shamisen. Get hands on and make your own washi ningyo paper doll, origami, or shodo calligraphy.

Japan Day

June 22, 2025, 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Outdoor stage at Post and Laguna, indoor events at Studio Gen

Enjoy free performances by:

  • Taiko drumming
  • Awa odori dance
  • Okinawan drumming
  • Dance
  • Karate
  • Shamisen

June 22, 2025
12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
SF Japantown
Outdoor stage at Post and Laguna, indoor events at Studio Gen

Join us for our annual summer festival of Japanese arts and culture. Enjoy performances of taiko drumming, awa odori dance, Okinawan drumming and dance, karate, and shamisen. Get hands on and make your own washi ningyo paper doll, origami, or shodo calligraphy.

Schedule for Hotel Kabuki Outdoor Stage
  • 12:00pm – 12:25pm: Gen Taiko & Odori
  • 12:30pm – 1:00pm: Sakura Ren Awa Odori
  • 1:00pm – 1:20pm: 80th Anniversary Commemoration of Atomic Bomb
  • 1:25pm – 1:55pm: Generations of joy drumming and dance
  • 2:00pm – 2:30pm: Sakura Ren
  • 2:30pm – 2:40pm: MatsuQ Nozawa and Francis Wong
  • 2:45pm – 3:00pm: International Karate League
  • 3:00pm – 4:00pm: Okinawa Kenjinkai Eisa Shima Taiko
  • 4:00pm – 4:30pm Gintenkai National Project
Schedule for Studio Gen Indoor Events
  • 12:30pm – 1:30pm: The Way of Tea, Urasenke Foundation San Francisco
  • 1:00pm – 5:00pm: Washi Ningyo paper dolls
  • 1:00pm – 2:00pm: Origami workshop
  • 2:30pm – 3:30pm: Shodo calligraphy workshop
  • 3:30pm – 4:30pm: Gidayu Shamisen
  • 4:30pm-5:00pm: Master Artist MatsuQ Nozawa and Gen Shamisen

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.


Cost: FREE
Categories: *Top Pick*, Fairs & Festivals, In Person, Kids & Families, Outdoors, Theater & Performance
Venue: Studio Gen Stage, Hotel Kabuki Stage, Japan Center East Mall Stage
Address: Japan Center East Mall, San Francisco, CA