1. What kind of event is "Nagasaki lanthanum festival"?

"Nagasaki lanthanum festival" is winter charming sights in Nagasaki many visitors visit from the whole country. It's a first that the scale of the spring clause festival which was being performed was expanded and it was held in 1994 (1994) to celebrate a Chinese lunar New Year at Nagasaki vacant lot chinatown originally.

17 day※ from 1st Friday when a period is February every year as a principle. About 15,000 of lanthanum is decorated at each city place during a period for being a custom which lights up lanthanum (Chinese paper lantern) and meets a spirit in heaven in "Feast of Lanterns (An omen is shouldered.) join" on the old Japanese calendar January 15 it means that the last day of the spring clause.

The sexagenary cycle, the animal and the animation character in a holding year were made a motif, big, small, various lanthanum, an art object is also displayed and a town is in the fantastic atmosphere. The stage with abundant Chinese color and a gourmet can also be enjoyed fully, and it's exoticism perfection.
※ The next day in the last day extends it for 1 day for a holiday in 2026, and it'll be 18 days.

2. The interesting place where 5 meeting places are each and the trick of the sightseeing?

5 formal meeting places are established in Nagasaki-shi. "Vacant lot chinatown meeting place" and "Chuokoen meeting place" in a main stadium are also very popular at the inside, and it's charm that a lanthanum art object rich in a plan and a colorful stage performance can be enjoyed. Additionally there is also Nakashima river park meeting place" where retrospective taste is spread on a ridge of "a beach, oh, town meeting place" and Nakashima river for which "Tojinyashiki meeting place" and the shopping street which float were used, and the aim of the meeting place is various. It's also a point of enjoyment to check the color of the lanthanum different from red and pink yellow every meeting place.

Even if it's far to each meeting place from a main stadium, about 1 km. The city is also dotted with a lanthanum spot besides the formal meeting place, so it's recommended to move on foot while seeing it, but it's also a hand to make use of 1-day ticket of a bus and a street car and go around efficiently.

▼ Ticket for profitable bus and street car
*Nagasaki bus 1 Sunday . 24 hour PASS Plus
*Nagasaki Electric Tramway Mobile railroad ticket (one-day pass and 24 hour railroad ticket).
*Nagasaki Electric Tramway Train One Day Pass.

<Interesting place in each meeting place>

※ For a formal meeting place sometimes to become change by a year, formal HP, it's subject to confirmation.

● Vacant lot chinatown meeting place

Main stadium in orchid Fez. The lighting up system is the meeting place where a lanthanum art object rich in performed other variety, a stage performance, a Chinese gourmet, a lanthanum goods and charm in orchid Fez ask an intermediary in one hall.

The inside of the hall is shared with Minato park area and the Nagasaki vacant lot chinatown area which spreads across it. Outdoor event meeting place where at most about 2000 people can be accommodated and display space of a lanthanum art object are prepared in the Minato park area. A lot of street stalls also stand in a row.

Vivid vermilion lanthanum dyes over head in the Nagasaki vacant lot chinatown area, and they're highlights. The Chinese snack which is also a treasure house of an obvious Chinese gourmet and fits a gift as well as the trying out the food at various restaurants menu is also found.

The view spot which is that pink lanthanum is able to see the Doza riverside which flows in front of Kitamon in a chinatown (the Genbu deity), and popular. It was hung on the water, the lanthanum which is to the extent you can't finish counting, is including reception and the romantic atmosphere in a surface of the water.

● Chuokoen meeting place

The lighting up systems are always holding a stage event like Minato park, and is also seen, but there is no crowding like a vacant lot chinatown meeting place, and it's said that they can see it calmly relatively. A show can be seen comfortably while tasting a gourmet just made in a street stall at the meeting place where a table and a seat are installed in both sides in an orchid way only.

The case that I have a lot of lanthanum art objects which model an animal and the case that BU SA where popularity has caught the fire in SNS or a lanthanum art object of a trap "fearfulness panda" is here by the feature are famous.

● A beach, oh, town meeting place

A beach, oh, a town meeting place is a meeting place which consists of two shopping arcades. Shopping street where Nagasaki-shi where one was spread on east and west takes pride in its best scale "Hama-cho (town in HAMA), arcade". And another are "bell nerd sightseeing street" of about 300 m of full length which crosses a cross. An art object and an event also receive favorable reviews lanthanum in the ceiling which continues forever.

A lucky Kissho art object will introduce itself to Hama-machi arcade a lot, and I prosper as a photo spot.

On the other hand, God's "aged people under the moon" lanthanum art object of a matchmaking appears in a bell nerd sightseeing street. Orchid Fez can tie red thread in the special charm up and pray love accomplishment. A place making a prayer of tokusetsu as "length, putting love lanthanum" also neighbors. A wish is written in "reiheripai" which sided with mini lanthanum for prayer and it's offered up here. You'll burn red thread and reiheripai later, and it's said that you can do giving.

▼ Love accomplishment prayer
Date: During a period, at any time. The sales hour of the charm, "aged people under the moon for 24 hours and "length, putting love, lanthanum" 13: 00-19:00 (Saturday . Sunday and holiday 10:00-)
A place: The bell nerd sightseeing street "KOMEDA coffee store Nagasaki Hama-cho store" front (around Hamamachi, Nagasaki-shi, Nagasaki 3-20)
The charge: The charm of 100 yen (with red thread) and the "length, putting love, lanthanum" love lanthanum (reiheripai) of 1000 yen by which "aged people under the moon are red thread
https://www.at-nagasaki.jp/lantern-festival

● Tojinyashiki meeting place

The Tojin reservation for Tojinyashiki to stop the national isolation age and smuggling, which was put in Nagasaki. It's the valuable spot to which the past image is handed down soon to exist only at 4 halls. Collaboration of nostalgic rows of stores and houses on a street and lanthanum with the warmth causes the peculiar atmosphere.

● Nakashima river park meeting place

Place by the citizen relaxation spread on a ridge on Nakashima river. The vivid yellow lanthanum which colors a riverside catches eye. The "Megane-bashi" neighborhood learned about as a tourist spot in particular is photogenic. The lanthanum art object which made the flower and the animal a motif floats near the bridge of an arch-shaped, and the countless lanthanum which colors over head even comes out in the surface of a river and is crowded, and increases more gorgeousness. When the water level is low, it's possible to come down to the water's edge, and the walk which is while being wrapped in the light of lanthanum can be enjoyed.

3. A dramatic event of Chinese culture filling is plenty.

The stage event a highlight of a festival as well as lanthanum does at 3 meeting places in a vacant lot chinatown, Chuokoen and Tojinyashiki. Enough Chinese traditional performing art shows the daily impression such as the erh hu performance and the "strange face show" for which a face is changed by "dragon (then) dance" and the moment which handle a doll of a huge dragon with ten and several people including Shorin-ji Chinese art of self-defense.

A holiday starts from time noon on Saturday . Sunday from around 17 o'clock, and a weekday is until around 20 o'clock mainly in the evening at holding time. Every meeting place is unnecessary for reservation and admission, and you can often call freely. When it can be appreciated from a for here corner while tasting a street stall gourmet, the Chuokoen meeting place is also popular with the inside.

There is also a parade by weekend limitation, so I'd hope that you confirm the schedule of a program of the aim in formal HP beforehand.
▼ "2026 Nagasaki lanthanum festival" event schedule and parade route

<Recommended event>

● Emperor parade

The parade which imagined the state by which an emperor and Her Majesty the Empress went to a downtown and celebrated a new year as well as a people at New Year's in Qing Dynasty age. About 100 people in all parade a portable shrine of an emperor and Her Majesty the Empress for a vacant lot chinatown meeting place from Chuokoen meeting place in the center.

▼ Schedule
Saturday, February 14, 2026
14:30 beaches of 14:00 Chuokoen meeting place->, oh, town meeting place-> 14: 15:30 beaches of 50 smithery city street meeting place->, oh, town meeting place-> 16: 00 vacant lot chinatown meeting place (Minato park)

Saturday, February 21, 2026
14:30 beaches of 14:00 Chuokoen meeting place->, oh, town meeting place-> 14: 15:30 beaches of 50 smithery city street meeting place->, oh, town meeting place-> 16: 00 vacant lot chinatown meeting place (Minato park)

● maso (MASO) line

After putting in Nagasaki harbor, sailors of the Edo Period and Tosen were praying sailing safely. A maso line is the event which hands its state down from generation to generation. I divide Sean of "bodhisattva (BO SA) carrying" who puts maso on a ship again for "bodhisattva (BO SA) fried bean curd" and the return to ship which enshrine maso where he's a palladium of sailing in masodou in the Tang temple and a heaven queen hall into 2 days and reappear.

▼ Schedule
Bodhisattva fried bean curd
14:20 vacant lots of 2026 year February 8 (Sunday) 13:40 Tojinyashiki meeting place->, chinatown meeting place (Minato park)-> 14: 55 beaches, oh, town meeting place-> 15: 45 Chuokoen meeting place (the arrival system)

Bodhisattva carrying
14:20 beaches of 2026 year February 15 (Sunday) 13:15 Chuokoen meeting place->, oh, town meeting place-> 14: 40 vacant lot chinatown meeting place (Minato park)-> 15: 15 Tojinyashiki meeting place

● The tour of four halls of candle prayer

Tojin and others light a candle in the hall made grounds at the heart and hold a stamp rally of the light which turns around at the Tojinyashiki trace which was a reservation for Chinese merchants formerly. When a target hall is 4 of "god of the land hall" "Kannondo" "heaven queen hall" "Fujian hall heaven queen hall", and completeness does, it's said that a wish comes true.

Further a luck with money rise and the heaven by which you assume that there is divine favor in marine transportation in prosperity, a heaven queen hall and Fujian hall heaven queen hall in Kannondo are deified in a god of the land hall.

▼ The participation outline
Date: 11:00-21:00 during a period (Saturday . Sunday and holiday 10:00-)
An entrance fee: 1000 yen (with souvenir)
Participation reception: The "a god of the land, hall" front (11:00-21:00)

● Dragon dance

The basic show performed every day during a period at a vacant lot chinatown meeting place (Minato park) and Chuokoen meeting place. When it derives from Chinese pray for rain Shinto Ceremony, the dragon people who wore a historical origin and Tojin clothes expresses the state to which he prays for productiveness of grains while handling the form of the huge dragon.

By the way and the scene a dragon tries to leave, an audience, "It leaks and is thick, bring it! (I return, and it's thick, return.)", to rise calls for an encore by Nagasaki valve and is conventional. I'll be lively and call with a sign of MC.

At the end of a show, MC recruits an unofficial participation participant on the platform. A target is only adult from a face of physical strength and the physique, but a tourist out the prefecture can participate, so it's a challenge by all means in commemoration of the travel.

▼ Venue and date
During a period, it's performed every day at a vacant lot chinatown meeting place (Minato park) and Chuokoen meeting place.
※ For 20 minutes, the opening time is different in the show depending on venue . Sunday. For details.Here

▼ Unofficial participation participation
Date: In the dragon dance show of Monday-Thursday during period (A holiday is removed.) When not putting it into effect by※ convenience, I have that.
An entrance fee: Free.
The recruitment number of people: About 15 people are in the order of arrival by a salute system per 1 stage.
The participation condition: Tourist out the Nagasaki prefecture (beyond a high school student, the rule of thumb)

● Chinese strange face show

Popular performance of the Chinese tradition replacing the face put on with a face one after another by earliness which isn't also noticed. I say that it's handled as state secrets in China to work which derives from a classic drama in Szechwan-province "river play (the manifesto which isn't done)". A face is a man, a lady and God of an animal and is also attention in the difference in the expressions added to the respective faces.

▼ Venue and date
* Vacant lot chinatown meeting place (Minato park)
2026 year February 7 (Sat), 15 day (Sun), 21 day (Sat) and 23 day (Monday . national holiday)

* Chuokoen meeting place
Saturday . Sunday during period and holiday (except for February 11 (Wednesday . national holiday))
※ For 15 minutes, the opening time is different in the show depending on schedules. For details.Here.
※ It's changed by the weather and convenience, and there are a stop and cancellation.

● Length, putting night view lanthanum

The premium event performed by limitation for 1 day. The lanthanum among which participants included a wish is given off to a night sky simultaneously from 18:30 following a release count down ceremony from 17:30. The fantastic world with which lanthanum as much as 300 sets compares a dark night, Experience, can.

▼ The event outline
A place: The Nagasaki agency site (2-2, Edomachi, Nagasaki-shi, Nagasaki)
Date: February 7, 2026 (Sat)17:30-(17:00 set and reception)
An entrance fee: 3000 yen for 1 set
The recruitment number of people: 300 people of first arrival
Participation method: Nagasaki's sightseeing service Application "STLOCAL" Empty Reservation required
Remarks: When they're a stop and cancellation, the time of stormy weather is here.

4. How to enjoy oneself light up time is told.

I conduct the lighting up system in 2 meeting places of the first day of a festival (around the 1st 17:30 Friday of February), a vacant lot chinatown (Minato park) and Chuokoen and count down for lighting up time of 18:00. When lanthanum and an countless art object begin to give the showy color off, it's a start of Nagasaki lanthanum festival increasingly. A crack of a firecracker sounds and a big cheer arises from a meeting place.

30 minutes after sunset are the time of the twilight when a lanthanum art object interweaves a beautiful contrast with the cobalt-blue sky. It's the best time of the photography, so I'll leave one shots of a right or wrong memory.

The trick by which the one I walk with the lanthanum of holdings in one hand in case of sightseeing deifies and livens up its feeling. Lanthanum of holdings can choose the color from red of health and safe luck, pink of love luck and yellow of luck with money by a sale by subscription system of quantity limitation.

▼ The lighting up system
February 6 (Fri) in 2026
Vacant lot chinatown meeting place (Minato park) 17:40-18:00, Chuokoen meeting place 17:30-18:00 and simultaneous lighting up 18:00

▼ Lighting up time
February 6 (Fri) 18:00-22:00 in 2026
February 7 (Sat)-23 days (Monday . national holiday) 17:00※,-22:00 (in the last day,-21:00)
※ A vacant lot chinatown meeting place and a beach, oh, a town meeting place, 12:00-
※ The lighting up is changed by the weather and convenience, and there are a stop and cancellation.

▼ Lanthanum of holdings
* The charge: 1400 yen
* Purchase method: Nagasaki's sightseeing service Application "STLOCAL" Empty Reservation required

5. A local specialty "JIGE, oh." gourmet in Nagasaki street stall checks it, too.

A street stall equals Minato park and Chuokoen meeting place in a vacant lot chinatown meeting place in a row, and "JIGE, oh." etc. which means baking Soup Dumpling, the Chinese menu of ronikumeshi (Lou low Juan) etc. and Nagasaki's local food can be tasted.

Potato of a Nagasaki specialty was steamed wholly, and covered with secret clothes and raised it, "GA", JIGE, oh, the standard snack. JIGE where the one from the "Iwasaki main shop" for which Chinese Red Braised Pork (ton Poe wax/pork boiled meat cube) was arranged "Japanese Braised Pork Belly Bean Paste Bun" was born from a banquet hall dish of Nagasaki origination "red Chinese styled table (I tended to do.) dish", oh, there is a gourmet, too. Additionally a fried bean curd snack from "Suchou woods" in the chinatown (SOSHUURIN) "asahanaji (MAFARU)" is also local specialty. The chocolate account type is fond by the name which is "lay" at Nagasaki, and is also sold by orchid Fez time frame limitation.

Please enjoy a gourmet Nagasaki as well as orchid Fez by all means, too.
※ There is also something which isn't sold by a year.

* Vacant lot chinatown meeting place (Minato park) 16:00-21:00 (Saturday . Sunday and holiday 11:00-)
* Chuokoen meeting place 17:00-21:00 (Saturday . Sunday and holiday 11:00-)

To Hot spring ryokan "Hoshino Resorts KAI Unzen" where a total, a flower and an orchid are wrapped in interwoven Nagasaki culture.

After it was satisfied with exotic night by Nagasaki lanthanum festival, it's to "Hoshino Resorts KAI Unzen" where I gasp with a car in Unzenhot spring for about 1 hour with the reverberation.
Devote yourself to the space where peace, a spectacle and the exoticism an orchid interweaves float, and please spend some time of the paradise tasted by the five senses with hot spring which makes the Unzen hell a source while being flooded with Nagasaki culture.