Enjoy the events of autumn, a comfortable season. As the summer heat subsides, we can enjoy a season of balmy weather Why not go out and enjoy autumn events using Toei Transportation?

Have an unforgettable movie experience!

Shinjuku Park Cinema Festival 2024

At this outdoor cinema event, you can watch free movies under a starry sky in a relaxing space surrounded by the greenery of Shinjuku Central Park. There will also be a range of food trucks and stalls, so you can enjoy a meal and a movie with a beer in one hand.

Right near Tochomae Station on the Toei Oedo Line

Event dates: October 10 (Thursday) – 12 (Saturday)

Venue: Shinjuku Central Park Fun More Time Plaza (Water Plaza) (2-11 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo)

Viewing fee: Free of charge

Inquiries: 03-3344-3160

Website：https://www.kanko-shinjuku.jp/cinema2024/-/index.html

Easily experience traditional Japanese culture

Tokyo Grand Tea ceremony 2024 (Hama-rikyu Gardens)

This huge tea ceremony event enables you to enjoy tea ceremonies performed by a variety of different tea ceremony schools. The event also includes tea ceremonies in the Nodate style (performed outside with chairs for guests) and Nodate enjoyed in English (Nodate tea ceremonies with guidance in English). Even those who are unfamiliar with tea ceremony can easily participate in this event.

7-min. walk from Shiodome Station and Tsukijishijo Station on the Toei Oedo Line

12-min. walk from Shimbashi Station on the Toei Asakusa Line

Event dates: October 26 (Saturday) – 27 (Sunday)

Opening hours: 10:00–16:20 (Reception hours for tea ceremony program are 9:00–15:30)

Venue: 1-1 Hama-rikyu Gardens, Chuo-ku

Gardens entrance fee: General admission 300 yen
There is a separate participation fee for the tea ceremony program

Inquiries: 03-6426-0558 (Tokyo Grand Tea Ceremony Office/Weekdays 10:00–17:00)

Website：　https://tokyo-grand-tea-ceremony2024.jp/eng/index.html

Enjoy Halloween together as a family!

Sunshine City FUN! FUN! Halloween

Sunshine City is holding a full range of events for you to enjoy Halloween together as a family, including Halloween-only photo spots and events giving out sweets as gifts. On October 31, Halloween, there will also be concerts that you can watch free of charge.

Nihombashi Takashimaya S.C. BBQ BEER GARDEN

4-min. walk from Higashi-ikebukuro-yonchome Stop on the Tokyo Sakura Tram(Toden Arakawa Line)

Event dates: October 1 (Tuesday) – 31 (Thursday)

Venue: Sunshine City, 3-1 Higashi-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku

Inquiries: 03-3989-3331

Website：https://sunshinecity.jp/file/official/halloween/

Second-hand bookstore district’s largest annual event

The 64th Kanda Antique Book Festival

Held in Kanda-Jimbocho, the world’s top second-hand bookstore district, this open-air market offers some million used books for sale at bargain prices. Swarms of readers from throughout Japan and even overseas come here for a week when the streets are packed with both books and people.

VMG CAFE Kudan Kaikan Terrace BEER GARDEN

Right near Jimbocho Station on the Toei Shinjuku Line and the Toei Mita Line

Event dates: October 25 (Friday) to November 4 (Monday/public holiday)

Opening hours: 10:00–18:00 (Closes at 17:00 on November 4)

Venue: Pavement along Yasukuni-dori Street, 1- and 2-chome, Jimbocho, Chiyoda-ku

Inquiries: 03-3293-0161 (Kanda Old Bookstore Federation)

Website：https://jimbou.info/

Go autumnal foliage viewing on long autumn nights

Nighttime Autumn Foliage Viewing

The Rikugien Gardens are famous for their autumnal foliage. For this event, you can enter the gardens with a special nighttime viewing ticket, enabling you to encounter expressions through illuminations and projection imagery on storehouse walls that differ from the gardens’ appearance during daylight hours. Please see the Rikugien Gardens’ website for details.

10-min. walk from Sengoku Station on the Toei Mita Line

Event dates: November 22 (Friday) to December 4 (Wednesday)

Opening hours: 18:00–20:30 (Entry closes at 19:30)

Entrance fees: Online prepaid tickets 900 yen; Same-day on-site tickets 1,100 yen

Venue: Rikugien Gardens 6-16-3 Honkomagome, Bunkyo-ku

Inquiries: 03-3941-2222

Website：https://honyaku.j-server.com/LUCTMPA/ns/tl.cgi/https://www.tokyo-park.or.jp/park/rikugien/news/2024/nighttime_autumn_foliage_viewing.html?SLANG=ja&TLANG=en&XMODE=0&XJSID=0

Be soothed by an art exhibit full of cats

The Wonderful Life of Cats : ASAKURA Fumio and Cats, and Sometimes Dogs

Fumio Asakura is one of Japan’s representative sculptors. In addition to his popular cat sculptures, this special exhibition also presents various dog sculptures. Touchable sculpture, workshops, and other events are also being held. How about going and meeting Asakura’s cats and dogs?

5-min. walk from Nippori Station on the Nippori-Toneri Liner

Event dates: September 14 (Saturday) to December 24 (Tuesday)

Opening hours: 9:30–16:30 (Entry closes at 16:00)

Closed: Mondays and Thursdays (if Monday or Thursday is a public holiday, the museum is closed on the following weekday）

Entrance fees: General admission 500 yen

Venue: Asakura Museum of Sculpture, 7-18-10 Yanaka, Taito-ku

Inquiries: 03-3821-4549

HP：https://www.taitogeibun.net/asakura/exhibitions/e_special/