See one act of kabuki at Tokyo’s Kabukiza
Choose a manageable first encounter with kabuki through the programme’s actual single-act options, seating and language support.
Events and traditions
Particular occurrences and recurring cultural events.
Choose an occasion you genuinely want to take part in, then check the edition, programme and arrangements that make your visit possible.
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- Spend a festival day in Scotland’s book town. Choose a specific experience and understand what it involves.
- Choose your Edinburgh festival experience, not somebody else’s packed schedule. A few well-chosen performances can make a richer visit than racing between everything with a festival label.
- Have a Guinness at St James’s Gate—and choose the visit around it. Choose between the self-guided Storehouse, learning to pour and a separate brewery experience at Guinness’s Dublin home.
- Choose your Monterey Car Week: cars on the lawn, on the track or on the move. Build a Monterey Car Week visit around the cars and setting you care about, with separate tickets and travel plans for each event.
- Watch spring arrive beside Toyama’s Matsukawa River. Plan a flexible cherry-blossom visit in central Toyama, with riverside time and a boat outing only when the seasonal service is operating.
- Look for England’s oldest pub—and enjoy the questions along the way. Use a visit to Nottingham’s Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem to explore the difference between a memorable old pub and a proven oldest-pub claim.
Dates and booking information belong to the edition you plan to attend; historical listings are not an upcoming programme.
More experiences to consider
- See one act of kabuki at Tokyo’s Kabukiza: Choose a manageable first encounter with kabuki through the programme’s actual single-act options, seating and language support.
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Look for England’s oldest pub—and enjoy the questions along the way
Use a visit to Nottingham’s Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem to explore the difference between a memorable old pub and a proven oldest-pub claim.
Have a Guinness at St James’s Gate—and choose the visit around it
Choose between the self-guided Storehouse, learning to pour and a separate brewery experience at Guinness’s Dublin home.
Choose your Monterey Car Week: cars on the lawn, on the track or on the move
Build a Monterey Car Week visit around the cars and setting you care about, with separate tickets and travel plans for each event.
Watch spring arrive beside Toyama’s Matsukawa River
Plan a flexible cherry-blossom visit in central Toyama, with riverside time and a boat outing only when the seasonal service is operating.
Make the Bracebridge Dinner the centerpiece of a Yosemite winter visit
Treat the theatrical Christmas dinner as its own experience, with time around it for the place and the season.
Choose your Edinburgh festival experience, not somebody else’s packed schedule
A few well-chosen performances can make a richer visit than racing between everything with a festival label.
Choose the Edinburgh Hogmanay you want to remember
Make the New Year celebration fit your appetite for music, crowds and winter evenings rather than assuming there is one correct way to take part.
Spend a festival day in Scotland’s book town
Choose a conversation worth travelling for, then leave room for the bookshops and discoveries around it.
Try your first opera with Tosca in San Francisco
An evening of live music and drama, with enough preparation to enjoy it without studying for an exam.
Watch Lerwick Up Helly Aa as a guest of the community
The procession can be a compelling reason to visit Shetland, but it is only one part of a locally organized tradition.
Choose one New Orleans Mardi Gras parade to watch well
Give Carnival a manageable focus, with Rex as one example and a clear distinction between a public parade and a ticketed event.
Give a New Orleans evening to the music at Preservation Hall
Choose one live jazz performance, understand the ticket and seating arrangements, and let listening be the whole point.
Spend time at Nuremberg’s Christmas market without rushing between ten others
Use one market as the anchor of a winter visit, with space for food, craft and the city around it.
Make Oktoberfest a particular day in Munich rather than a vague festival wish
Choose who you want to go with, what kind of visit appeals and how a tent reservation fits the day.
Watch Oslo celebrate Norway’s Constitution Day
Spend May 17 as a welcome spectator to a local celebration, without confusing public participation with joining the children’s parade.
Watch a Rio Carnival samba-school parade at the Sambadrome
Choose one defined Carnival experience: a spectator night watching the samba schools, rather than an impossible promise to do all of Rio.
Make Salzburg’s Adventsingen the centre of a winter visit
Choose a particular Advent performance in Salzburg, with the production, date and uninterrupted running time shaping your plans.