Tokyo Anime Dispatch

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 ...

On July 3, 2026, the immersive exhibition 動き出す妖怪展 KAGOSHIMA 〜Imagination of Japan〜 opened at the Kagoshima Prefectural Museum of Culture, Reimeikan, bringing a folklore-heavy summer attraction to Kyushu for the first time. The organizer says the exhibition runs through August 31, 2026, and combines Edo- and Meiji-era yokai imagery with 3DCG, projection mapping, holographic screens, and physical set pieces. The release frames the show as more than a static display of old illustrations. It is described as a new kind of immersive digital art museum that lets visitors walk into yokai art, hear it, and see it move. The press release also says earlier runs in Nagoya and Tokyo drew more than 200,000 visitors, which helps explain why the project is now expanding to Kagoshima as its first stop in Kyushu. What Was Announced The core announcement is simple: 動き出す妖怪展 KAGOSHIMA 〜Imagination of Japan〜 started on July 3, 2026 and will remain on view until August 31, 2026. Regular hours are 9:00...

On June 22, 2026, Hitohata announced that Moving Yokai Exhibition TOKYO had passed 100,000 visitors and marked the moment with a commemorative ceremony. The exhibition is still running at Terada Warehouse G1 Building in Shinagawa, Tokyo, and the official event page says the current run opened on March 27, 2026 and continues through June 28, 2026. For international readers, this is a timely reminder that yokai are not just a niche folklore subject. They remain a living part of Japanese visual culture, public exhibitions, and the wider pop-culture imagination. The milestone matters because the show is not only a numbers story. It is evidence that a folklore-centered exhibition can draw a broad audience in the middle of a busy summer season. The project combines historic yokai imagery with modern installation design, so it works as both a cultural event and a piece of immersive entertainment. That blend helps explain why the exhibition is able to attract families, casual visitors, and ...