Ryogoku Yokai Summer Festival 2026 turns Edo Noren into a one-day stage | جشن تابستانی یوکایِ ریوگوكو، ادو نورن را به صحنهای یکروزه بدل میکند
Announced on July 2, 2026 and scheduled for today, July 12, 2026, the Ryogoku Yokai Summer Festival 2026 is turning -Ryogoku- Edo Noren in Sumida, Tokyo into a one-day stage for masks, parades, live performance, and Bon Odori inspired by Japanese yōkai folklore. The official event page says the festival runs from 10:00 to 19:00, with free admission and rain-or-shine operation. What Was Announced The event page and the accompanying PR release describe a compact but busy program. Visitors can join a mask workshop, look for yōkai inside the venue through a stamp rally, and watch a parade through the building. Later in the day, the schedule adds a stage performance by the creative performance group Hyakki Yagyō, a yōkai procession with Asakusa Ukonya, and two sessions of the specially created Edo Monster Bon Odori. That structure matters. The festival is not presented as a static display of folklore. It is built as a set of actions that people can join, from making a mask to walking ...