Many events including sales of funny masks and “inviting good luck potty bags” will be held at “2025

The “Chinese New Year Festival” will be held at “Kobe Nankinmachi” in Motomachi (Chuo-ku, Kobe) from January 29th. The festival will last until February 2.

In China, the Chinese New Year is celebrated with great fanfare as “Chinese New Year,” with firecrackers going off, dragons and lions dancing, and the town is very lively. In Nankinmachi, the “Chinese New Year Festival” has been held since 1987 as an arrangement of the “Chinese New Year” to coincide with the Lunar New Year.

Source: Kobe Nankinmachi official website

Various events are held during the festival. On the first day of the festival, the 29th, “Chinese Historian Yuuki” parades through Motomachi Shopping Street and Sannomiya Center Street, dressed as the heroes of the Legend of the Three Kingdoms, Yang Kwei-Fei, etc., wearing costumes and makeup from Chinese opera.

Source: Kobe Nankinmachi official website

From January 29th to 31st, the “Henshimen”, a traditional performance from Sichuan, China, in which masks change in an instant, and other acrobatics will be performed; on February 1st and 2nd, the “Shishi-mai Shuqing” (lion dance) will be held in which lions visit stores in the town to bring good luck to the people.

Source: Kobe Nankinmachi official website

In addition, there will be “Shofuku Pochibukuro” (lucky charms) and “Sanshi” (fortune-telling) bags containing hotel accommodation coupons and money coupons that can be used in Nankinmachi, as well as fortune-telling and special opportunities to visit the Lord Kantei (the Kantei visit will be held throughout the festival period, except for the rest of the festival, which will begin on January 30).

<A word from the reporter>
The events you can enjoy differ from day to day, so you will have fun no matter which day you go……. I hope you will enjoy this special experience that is only available during this time of year…….

Period

January 29 (Wed) – February 2 (Sun), 2025

Place

Nankinmachi
(1-3-18 Sakae-machi-dori, Chuo-ku, Kobe)
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Hours

Varies depending on the day of the event
For more information

Schedule for each day

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• Kobe Nankinmachi Event Official Page https://www.nankinmachi.or.jp/event/shunsetsu/