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Tokushima Travel Guide

Everything for your trip to Tokushima in one place: culture experiences, anime pilgrimage, events & festivals, attractions, travel passes. Open any page for access, highlights and typical dates.

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Culture experiences

👘 Culture experiences

🏺 6 places

Traditional Crafts Experience

Tokyo & Around ・ Chubu & Hokuriku ・ Chugoku & Shikoku ・ Kyushu

In the regions where artisans have handed down their skills, you can try pottery, indigo dyeing, gold leaf application, Edo Kiriko cut glass and papermaking with your own hands. From Mashiko and Arita ceramics to Edo Kiriko in Tokyo, Kanazawa gold leaf, Mino washi and Tokushima indigo, workshops and public facilities around Japan welcome first-timers.

Anime pilgrimage

🎬 Anime pilgrimage

🏛️ Facility

Machi Asobi

Chugoku & Shikoku ・ Tokushima, Tokushima

A large-scale event held across the whole city of Tokushima, bringing together game, anime, voice acting and other entertainment companies under the concept of "playing all over Tokushima." It is selected for the 88 Anime Spots.

Events

🎎 Events & festivals

August

Awa Odori

Chugoku & Shikoku ・ Tokushima, Naruto & Iya

Every year August 11–15

Attractions

🎡 Attractions

Experience

Onaruto Bridge Walkway Uzu-no-Michi

Chugoku & Shikoku ・ Naruto, Tokushima

A 450m-long walkway built inside the girders of the Onaruto Bridge. From 45m above the sea, you can look straight down on the whirlpools of the Naruto Strait. It's a Tokushima Prefecture facility inside Naruto Park and can be visited together with the neighboring Onaruto Bridge Memorial Hall Eddy.

Travel passes

🎫 Travel passes

🎫 Combo ticket

ALL SHIKOKU Rail Pass

Chugoku & Shikoku ・ 3, 4, 5 or 7 consecutive days

From ¥12,000

Weather

☁️ Tokushima weather & what to wear

Monthly temperatures, rain and what to wear are in our weather guide.

Itineraries, intercity routes and travel passes that cover several prefectures are listed under each of them.

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