Japanese Public Holidays
Pick a year to see every Japanese national holiday, substitute holiday and citizens' holiday — computed from the actual holiday-law rules, not a lookup table. Long weekends (3+ days) are extracted automatically, with a countdown to the next holiday. Covers 2000–2099. Everything runs in your browser.
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Future years are projections based on current law. The equinox holidays are officially fixed in February of the preceding year.
How to use
Enter a year (or step with the Prev / Next buttons) to list that year's holidays. They are computed from the rules of Japan's holiday law rather than a built-in table, so any year from 2000 to 2099 works. Stretches of 3 or more days off (weekends joined with holidays) are extracted automatically, and if you are viewing the current year you also get a countdown to the next holiday. "Copy list" exports everything as text.
Japan's public holiday system
Japan has 16 national holidays a year — among the most of any country — and they shape travel like nothing else: trains, flights and hotels fill up and prices spike around them. The famous cluster is Golden Week (late April to early May), when four holidays land within a week. Several holidays follow the "Happy Monday" system: they are pinned to a Monday (e.g. Coming of Age Day = 2nd Monday of January) to create guaranteed three-day weekends. When a holiday falls on a Sunday, the next non-holiday day becomes a substitute holiday; and a lone weekday squeezed between two holidays becomes a citizens' holiday — the rare alignment that produces "Silver Week" in September. Note that Obon (mid-August) and the New Year break (Dec 29–Jan 3) are not legal holidays, even though much of the country is off. If you are planning a trip to Japan, checking this calendar first is genuinely worth it — either to ride the festive mood or to dodge the crowds.
Example
In September 2026, the 19th (Sat) through the 23rd (Wed) form a 5-day break: Sunday the 20th, Respect for the Aged Day on the 21st, a citizens' holiday on the 22nd and Autumnal Equinox Day on the 23rd. This "Silver Week" alignment only happens every few years — this tool spots it instantly.
Related tools
To count working days excluding these holidays, try the Japan Business Days Calculator; for a child's 7-5-3 festival years, see the Shichi-Go-San Year Calculator.