Tokyo Christmas Market

The Tokyo Christmas Market takes place in 2026 on two sites: Shin-Toyosu, in Kōtō ward, from 20 November to 25 December, and Shiba Park, in Minato ward, from 4 to 25 December. A Christmas pyramid from Seiffen, mulled wine served in a souvenir mug, choirs flown in from Germany: entry is charged, from 1,000 to 2,000 yen per adult depending on the day, and each site has its own calendar. In 2025, the two sites welcomed around 560,000 visitors.

Tokyo Christmas Market 2026: dates and opening hours

The Shin-Toyosu site opens on 20 November 2026 and closes on 25 December. On the first day the gates open at 4pm, then every day from 11am to 9:30pm, with last entry at 8:30pm. The Shiba Park site only opens on 4 December, at 4pm on the first day, then from 11am to 10pm until 25 December, last entry at 9pm.

Between 20 November and 3 December, only one site is therefore running. From 4 to 25 December, both operate at the same time, with an extra half hour in the evening at Shiba Park.

Entry prices and the ticket with mug

The adult ticket, from junior high school age, costs 1,000 yen on weekdays, 1,500 yen at weekends and on public holidays, and 2,000 yen on 24 and 25 December. Children pay 500 yen, 1,000 yen on 24 and 25 December, and under-6s go in free. Prices are the same on both sites.

An advance ticket with mug is sold on KKday. The mug has a different design for each site, and it is reused for every Glühwein.

Shin-Toyosu and Shiba Park: a market that moves around

The Tokyo Christmas Market was born in December 2015 in Hibiya Park, and it has moved almost every year: Hibiya from 2015 to 2018 and from 2020 to 2022, Shiba Park in 2019, Jingu Gaien from 2023 to 2025, with a second site in Shiba Park in 2025. Guides that still place it in Hibiya or at Jingu Gaien are a season behind.

In 2026, Shin-Toyosu is a new site, with a sea theme, at Toyosu 6-4. Shiba Park, with a forest theme, occupies the square in front of Onarimon station, at Shiba-kōen 3-2. The practical details of each site appear below the map, with its dates and hours.

Seiffen pyramid, Glühwein and German choirs

The centrepiece is the Christmas pyramid, 14 m tall, brought over from the village of Seiffen, in Saxony. It was renewed in 2024. Around it, the wooden stalls sell nutcrackers and decorations, and the Glühwein is drunk from the site’s souvenir mug. Choirs from Germany, street performers and children’s workshops complete the programme.

The market is organised by its own committee, with the German National Tourist Board, the representation of Bavaria, the Saxony tourist board, the village of Seiffen and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government among its partners. To compare with the original, our guides to the Christmas markets in Germany are gathered on one page.

560,000 visitors in 2025

The market welcomed 250,000 visitors in 2022, then around 560,000 in 2025 across its two sites. Each site has its own list of restaurants and shops.

How to get to the Tokyo Christmas Market

For Shin-Toyosu, the Yurikamome line serves Shin-Toyosu station, 2 minutes on foot, and Shijō-mae, 3 minutes. Toyosu station, on the Yūrakuchō metro line, is a 15-minute walk away. For Shiba Park, Onarimon station on the Toei Mita line, exit A6, is 1 minute away: Shiba-kōen station is further off, despite its name. Neither site has a car park.

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Japan’s other markets are on our page of Christmas markets in Asia.

• The Roppongi Hills Christmas Market, also in Tokyo, is smaller and free, with ten stalls modelled on Stuttgart.
• The Yokohama Christmas Market takes place at the red-brick warehouses of the port, on the same dates as Shin-Toyosu.
• The Sapporo Christmas Market, twinned with Munich, has been held since 2002 during the Sapporo White Illumination.