Sendai Tanabata Matsuri

What is verified

Date

6 August 2026 – 8 August 2026

Time

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Location

Central Sendai

Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture

Reservation required

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Price

Free to walk through

From Sendai Station

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Traveler note

Not a parade. Enormous paper streamers hang from the arcade ceilings and the event is walking underneath them, which means it works in rain. The official count was about 2.11 million people across three days in 2025, so early morning on the 6th is the calmest the decorations ever are.

Location source

Checked on 2 August 2026

Official source: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, place-name search