What's on in Kyoto
18 events in June 2027: 5 gardens, 4 exhibitions, 3 performances, 3 festivals, 2 food events and 1 anime and games event, from headline festivals to neighbourhood fairs. 13 of them are annual events whose 2027 dates are still to be confirmed, listed with their usual window.
The rainy season in the Kinki region starts around 6 June on average and lasts until mid-July. June and July are Kyoto's wettest months, with about 200 mm of rain in June and 220 mm in July, and the covered Teramachi and Shinkyogoku arcades keep you dry between Shijo and Sanjo. More on the season in Rainy day Kyoto.
MapWhat's on each day of June 2027, events starting that day first. Annual events still waiting for their 2027 dates aren't listed here.
「円山応挙と伊藤若冲」
Time 10:00 to 17:00 (last entry 16:30) Station Imadegawa (Karasuma Line), exit 3, 8 min walk
Okyo's Peony and Peacock (first half of the autumn period) and his Great Waterfall, over 3.6 m tall (second half), hang alongside all 50 of Jakuchu's ink panels from the great study room of Kinkaku-ji, where he shows what he could do without colour. It's closed for New Year from 27 Dec to 8 Jan.
663highland, CC BY 2.5 忍劇「NARUTO-ナルト-」
Time 19:00 on 1 and 2 February, then 15:00 and 19:00, no shows on Mondays Station Gion-Shijo (Keihan Line), right outside exit 6
A long-run Naruto ninja show with no dialogue, so you don't need any Japanese: live action, acrobatics, aerial work and projection mapping, using every bit of stage machinery in Kyoto's old kabuki theatre. It follows Naruto's boyhood story in the Hidden Leaf Village and runs from February to June.
kajikawa, CC BY 3.0 春の特別拝観（相国寺）
Time 10:00 to 16:30 (last entry 16:00) Station Imadegawa (Karasuma Line), 8 min walk
The Hatto hall opens with Kano Mitsunobu's crying dragon painted on its ceiling, along with the abbot's quarters and the founder's hall.
663highland, CC BY-SA 4.0 鴨川納涼床
Station Sanjo or Gion-Shijo (Keihan Line)
From 1 May the restaurants along the river in Kiyamachi, Pontocho and Saiseki serve on outdoor terraces looking across the Kamogawa to the Higashiyama hills, until 15 October. Some stop at the end of September, and breakfast, lunch and hours vary by restaurant.
Domenico Convertini, CC BY-SA 2.0 貴船の川床
Station Kibune bus stop (Kyoto Bus) from Kibuneguchi (Eizan Railway)
From May the inns and restaurants of Kibune set platforms just above the Kibune River, so you eat Kyoto cooking in the cool air of the valley with the stream running under you. About 15 places take part, and dates and hours vary by restaurant.
ギルバート＆ジョージ展
Time 10:00 to 18:00 (last entry 17:30), closed Mondays unless a holiday Station Higashiyama (Tozai Line), 8 min walk
Japan's first big Gilbert & George show in 30 years, from the 1969 film of their Singing Sculpture to the huge recent photo pictures. Photos and films from their 1970s visits to Japan are planned too.
そらみみ, CC BY-SA 3.0 あじさい園の開園（三室戸寺）
Time 8:30 to 15:10 (gates close at 16:00) Station Mimurodo (Keihan Uji Line), 15 min walk
About 20,000 hydrangeas flower among the cedars of the temple's garden from the end of May into July. On Saturdays and Sundays from 12 to 27 June the garden is lit up from 19:00 to 21:00 too, on a separate ticket.
薪能（平安神宮）
Time Evenings Station Higashiyama (Tozai Line), 10 min walk
Noh performed by firelight at Heian Shrine on the evenings of 1 and 2 June. In rain it moves indoors to the main hall of ROHM Theatre Kyoto, as the second night did in 2026, and the shrine garden stops taking visitors at 17:20 on both days.
Manish Prabhune, CC BY 2.0 貴船祭
Time Rite 11:00 Station Kibuneguchi (Eizan Railway), then Kyoto Bus 33 to Kibune
Kifune Shrine's annual festival and the most important rite of its year. After the 11:00 ceremony the shrine's deity is carried in a mikoshi through Kibune village to pray for the people who live there.
京都国立博物館開館130周年記念 特別展 大狩野派 第2部 江戸～明治編
Time 9:00 to 17:30 (last entry 17:00), Fridays to 20:00, closed Mondays except 19 July Station Shichijo (Keihan), 7 min walk
The second half of the museum's 130th-anniversary survey of the Kano painters, Japan's biggest school of artists, in the first show this size in half a century. Part 2 takes the story from the Edo period to Meiji with every work changed from Part 1. It's open to 20:00 on Fridays, and ticket prices haven't been announced yet.
kajikawa, CC BY 3.0 田植祭（伏見稲荷大社）
Time From 13:00 Station Inari (JR Nara Line), 1 min walk
After a rite in the main hall the ceremony moves to the shrine's sacred paddy, where young women called saotome plant the seedlings for the rice offered to the gods every day while the courtly Otamai dance is performed.
Thomas CUELHO, CC BY 2.0 沙羅の花を愛でる会（東林院）
Time 9:30 to 15:00 (last entry 14:30) Station Hanazono (JR Sagano Line), 8 min walk
This Myoshin-ji subtemple opens while the sal trees in front of its hall are in white flower. You sit with matcha and a sweet for ¥1,600, or add a vegetarian temple meal for ¥6,300, no booking needed.
Kentaro Ohno, CC BY 2.0 蛍火の茶会
Station Shimogamo-jinja-mae bus stop (City Bus 4, 205), 1 min walk
On the second Saturday of June, Urasenke serves tea in the Hashidono and Hosodono halls, court dance in twelve-layer robes, gagaku and koto are performed in the Shinpuku-den, and old shops tied to the shrine hold an evening market by the Romon gate. Fireflies glow along the Semi stream in the forest, and the tea seats are for members of the Tadasu no Mori Foundation.
Appie Verschoor, CC BY-SA 2.0 紫陽花まつり（藤森神社）
Station Fujinomori (JR Nara Line), 5 min walk
Fujinomori Shrine holds its hydrangea festival rite on 15 June, in the season its hydrangea gardens are open. The shrine posts the gardens' opening dates and fee each year, so check before you go.
Naokijp, CC BY-SA 4.0 七夕風鈴まつり（平安神宮）
Time 8:30 to 18:00 (last entry 17:30) Station Higashiyama (Tozai Line), 10 min walk
Wind chimes hang from the Hashidono, the roofed bridge over the pond in Heian Shrine's garden, and you can write a wish on a strip for ¥300, free on 7 July and 19 August if you've paid for the garden. Garden entry is ¥600.
Manish Prabhune, CC BY 2.0 竹伐り会式（鞍馬寺）
Station Kurama (Eizan Railway)
Monks dressed as warrior monks split into Omi and Tanba teams and race to hack through green bamboo poles that stand in for great serpents, and the race is read as a forecast of the harvest. The rite recalls a Heian-period monk who killed a serpent here, and it's said to be a thousand years old.
京都五花街合同公演「都の賑い」
Time 11:00 and 14:30 Station Gion-Shijo (Keihan)
The one stage where geiko and maiko from all five Kyoto hanamachi dance together, about 70 of them, with a number by maiko from every district. Seats ran from ¥6,500 to ¥14,000 in 2026 and went on sale in April.
kajikawa, CC BY 3.0 桔梗を愛でる特別拝観（天得院）
Time 9:00 to 16:00 (gate closes 16:30) Station Tofukuji (JR Nara Line, Keihan)
This Tofuku-ji subtemple opens while Chinese bellflowers flower in its Momoyama-period dry garden, purple and white against cedar moss, and you can frame them through the cusped window. Matcha and a sweet are ¥1,000 extra.
Kimon Berlin, CC BY-SA 2.0 1000market（サウザンドマーケット）
Time 9:00 to 16:00 Station Gojozaka bus stop (City Bus 100, 206) or Kiyomizu-michi (207)
Kiyomizu-dera's own market on the 28th, the Fudo-son fair day, in the square in front of the gate, which you can walk into without a ticket. It started in April 2022 around traditional crafts, the environment and cutting food waste, and the stallholders are posted on Instagram.
ito1117, CC BY-SA 3.0 ガラクタ市（東寺）
Station Toji (Kintetsu Kyoto Line), 10 min walk
To-ji's smaller monthly market of antiques and handmade goods, held on the first Sunday rather than the big Kobo-ichi on the 21st.
平安蚤の市
Time 9:00 to 16:00 Station Higashiyama (Tozai Line), 10 min walk
More than 100 dealers in antiques and secondhand goods set up in Okazaki Park in front of Heian Shrine. Dates move from month to month and are often weekdays, and rain or storms cancel it, with the call posted the afternoon before.
Manish Prabhune, CC BY 2.0 平安楽市
Time 10:00 to 16:00 Station Higashiyama (Tozai Line), 10 min walk
A market of makers' own crafts and snacks in Okazaki Park, about once a month on dates the organiser posts, often on a weekday. In 2026 there was none in September or October, and the August one ran from 16:00 to 20:00.
Manish Prabhune, CC BY 2.0 百万遍さんの手づくり市
Time 8:00 to 16:00 Station Hyakumanben bus stop (City Bus 206), 1 min walk
Makers sell their own crafts, ceramics, clothes and food in Chion-ji's grounds on the 15th of each month. Places are allotted by lottery among applicants, and it runs in the rain.
Daderot, CC0 1.0 上賀茂手づくり市
Time 9:00 to 15:00 Station Kamigamo-jinja-mae bus stop (City Bus 4)
Stalls line the Nara-no-ogawa stream in Kamigamo Shrine's grounds, and everything is made by the seller, from jewellery, clothes and pottery to vegetables, baked sweets and bread. Check the organiser's dates, since a month with five Sundays can catch people out.
Kimon Berlin, CC BY-SA 2.0 天神市（北野天満宮）
Time 7:00 to sunset Station Kitano Tenmangu-mae bus stop (City Bus), 1 min walk
Kitano Tenmangu's market on the 25th, the date tied to Sugawara no Michizane's birth and death, is Kyoto's other big fair alongside To-ji's, strong on antiques, old tools and secondhand clothes. On market days the shrine buildings are lit after dark.
z tanuki, CC BY 3.0 弘法市（東寺）
Time About 5:00 to 16:00 Station Toji (Kintetsu Kyoto Line), 10 min walk
On the 21st of every month, Kukai's memorial day, about 1,200 to 1,300 stalls fill To-ji's grounds with antiques, old kimono and secondhand odds and ends, and about 200,000 people come. Most stallholders are dealers with shops elsewhere, it goes ahead in the rain, and stalls open from about 5:00, so come early if you're hunting for something.
京都アンティークフェア
Time 10:00 to 17:00 (last day to 16:00) Station Takeda (Karasuma Line, Kintetsu Kyoto Line), then the free shuttle bus from west exit 4
Over 300 dealers from all over Japan sell antiques and old art, furniture, paintings, Asian goods and Western antiques under one roof at Pulse Plaza, so the weather doesn't matter. Entry is free, and a free shuttle bus runs from Takeda Station.
天神市（北野天満宮）
Time All day, lanterns lit from sunset Station Kitano-Hakubaicho (Randen Kitano Line), 5 min walk
The 25th is Kitano Tenmangu's monthly fair day, and stalls line the approach all day. From sunset the shrine lights its 350 stone and 250 hanging lanterns, and 25 January and 25 December are the busiest of the year, with about a thousand stalls.
z tanuki, CC BY 3.0 弘法市（東寺）
Time 7:00 to 15:30 Station Toji (Kintetsu Kyoto Line), 6 min walk
Over 1,000 stalls fill To-ji on the 21st of every month, Kobo Daishi's memorial day, selling antiques, old tools, secondhand clothes and food to about 200,000 visitors. It runs in the rain, and the January market is Hatsu-Kobo.
梅小路公園手づくり市
Time 9:00 to 16:00 Station Umekoji-Kyotonishi (JR Sagano Line)
The sister market of the Hyakumanben one, with makers' stalls in Umekoji Park, and unlike at the temple you can bring a dog. It goes ahead in the rain.
Tam0031, CC BY-SA 3.0 梅小路公園手づくり市
Time 9:00 to 16:00 Station Umekoji-Kyotonishi (JR Sagano Line), 1 min walk
The sister market of Chion-ji's, run by the same team, sets up in Umekoji Park on the first Saturday of the month, with crafts and food sold by the people who made them. In May it joins the park's Green Fair on 3 and 4 May instead.
Tam0031, CC BY-SA 3.0 There are 18 events listed for June 2027 (5 gardens, 4 exhibitions, 3 performances, 3 festivals, 2 food events and 1 anime and games event). The big dates are Maruyama Okyo and Ito Jakuchu (17 Oct to 20 Jun), Ninja Show NARUTO at Minamiza (1 Feb to 30 Jun), Gilbert & George (26 May to 29 Aug) and Hydrangea Garden at Mimuroto-ji (29 May to 4 Jul). 5 have confirmed dates and 13 are annual events whose exact 2027 dates are still to be announced, shown with the usual window. Every listing links to the interactive map.
The 3 festivals listed for June 2027 are Kifune Matsuri (1 Jun, dates to be confirmed), Rice-planting Festival at Fushimi Inari (10 Jun, dates to be confirmed) and Bamboo-cutting Ceremony at Kurama-dera (20 Jun, dates to be confirmed).
Yes. Kifune Matsuri (1 Jun, dates to be confirmed) and Rice-planting Festival at Fushimi Inari (10 Jun, dates to be confirmed) are free to attend, 2 of the 18 events listed for June 2027.
The rainy season in the Kinki region starts around 6 June on average and lasts until mid-July. June and July are Kyoto's wettest months, with about 200 mm of rain in June and 220 mm in July, and the covered Teramachi and Shinkyogoku arcades keep you dry between Shijo and Sanjo.
Dated events are checked against the organiser's own page, and finished events drop off the page on their own. Annual events further out carry their usual dates until the official ones are published.