2026 Spring Festival Lanterns

2026 Spring Festival Lanterns

Event Overview

The "2026 Spring Festival Lanterns" will be themed around "Fortune of the Year of the Horse," celebrating the auspiciousness of the Year of the Horse in 2026. Under the theme of "Everything Goes Well," lanterns, paper lanterns, and red light lines will be combined, creating a vibrant illumination throughout Chinatown, centered on the theme color red. The main street of Chinatown will feature one of the largest dragon lanterns in the country, while cute smaller dragons will appear on Shanghai Road, dancing in the night sky of Chinatown. Each street will be adorned with red lanterns and illuminations unique to the Spring Festival, beautifully decorating the streets of Yokohama Chinatown. Image provided by: (C) Yokohama Chinatown Development Association

Info

JR Ishikawa-cho Station → 15 minutes on foot; or Minatomirai Line Motomachi/Nakagai Station → 8 minutes on foot
5 minutes from the Tokyo Metropolitan Expressway Yokohama Park entrance (down); or 5 minutes from the Tokyo Metropolitan Expressway Shinyamashita entrance

Event Period

Price

Free

Event Category

Festival of fire and lights


The largest dragon lantern in the country
(C) Yokohama Chinatai Development Association


Ornate Spring Festival Lanterns
(C) Yokohama Chinatai Development Association

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