Summer Music Festival Held in Eastern Japan [2026]

This is a one-day music festival that grew out of gatherings where the poet Okachimachi Kaito sang and read poetry with friends in Hidaka at summer’s end. The venue is the Hangandate Forest Park Campground, which spreads across a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, making use of a stage that remains at a site connected to the legend of Yoshitsune and the Ainu hero Shakushain. Welcoming artists such as Eito, Sonoko Inoue, and Shohei Yamaki, the event offers a taste of Hidaka’s charms with food, music, a campfire, and soap bubbles. Scheduled for August 2026.

"HOMETOWN MUSIC LIFE" is a music event held every June in Aomori City. In 2026, it will take place over two days, Saturday, June 13 and Sunday, June 14, at the Nebuta-no-Ie Wa Rasse West Plaza in Aomori City, with free admission and held rain or shine. The lineup includes Satoru Sakamoto, and d-iZe will serve as the main host. Four acts, including WATAERFALL, who won the official audition, have also earned the right to perform and will join the event’s stage.

This is a comedy-and-music entertainment show held to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Aomori Asahi Broadcasting’s launch. Koji Abe, who has served as the face of Aomori’s Saturday mornings since 2013 as the MC of the program “Happy,” delivers a stage filled with deep affection and gratitude for Aomori’s charms and the warmth of its people, which he has come to know through the show over many years. In 2024, he invested his own funds to purchase a deteriorating hot spring facility and lovingly reopened it as “Happy Hyakuzawa Onsen.” This man full of love now proudly brings an entertainment show to the people of Aomori, scheduled for June 2026.

Kuroishi Yosare Rock Fes is a rock festival held by the Kuroishi Yosare Executive Committee, for which the Kuroishi Tourism Association serves as the secretariat, as a related event to Kuroishi Yosare, a traditional event in Kuroishi City, Aomori Prefecture. The venue is the plaza in front of the station within walking distance from Konan Railway Kuroishi Station, and the festival is positioned alongside programs centered on Bon Odori, such as nagashi-odori (processional dance), kumi-odori (group dance), and mawari-odori (round dance). In 2026, it will be held on Friday, August 14, from 11:00 to 17:30.