The "30th Honolulu Festival" will be held from March 13th (Friday) to 15th (Sunday), 2026
Mar 10(Sun)

SISTER EVENT Honolulu Rainbow EKIDEN 2024

Event Time 08:00 - (Mar 10(Sun) )
Place Kapiolani Park

The Honolulu Rainbow EKIDEN, inaugurated in March 2013 as Hawaii’s first public relay race for amateur runners, is finally back after five years!

Official Website : Honolulu Rainbow EKIDEN 2024

Sake & Food Fest

Event Time 10:00 - 15:00 (Mar 10(Sun) )
Place Hawaii Convention Center

Exhibition of Japanese sake culture, sake sampling, food on sale
*ID with photo is required for tasting
*Samples are limited

Japanese Film Festival

Event Time 10:00 - 14:49 (Mar 10(Sun) )
Place Hawaii Convention Center

 A selection of wonderful Japanese movies. Please visit and enjoy.

*Free Admission!!

10:00 ~ 11:56 ITO
12:30 ~ 14:49 The Fish Tale

The event will feature various Japanese seafood dishes, food tasting sessions, workshops, entertainment elements such as tuna dismantling shows and musubi cooking demonstrations.

11am ~ Sabaki Girl Tuna Cutting LIVE
1pm ~ ONIGIRI ACTION

Japan Product Bazaar :Hawaii Sister Cities Edition

Event Time 10:00 - 15:00 (Mar 10(Sun) )
Place Hawaii Convention Center

The Fair will present around 70 carefully selected products from six of Hawaii’s sister cities (prefectures) in Japan: Ehime, Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Hokkaido, Okinawa and Yamaguchi. Products include exclusive items such as Hokkaido’s authentic butter cookies and Ehime’s Mandarin Mochi. We invite you to come and have a delightful shopping spree.

Maui Mikoshi (Exhibit Only)

Event Time 10:00 - 15:00 (Mar 10(Sun) )
Place Hawaii Convention Center

The Maui mikoshi contest was developed exclusively for high school students in Maui. Each year there is a competition among high schools to design a mikoshi for the Honolulu Festival. The winning Maui mikoshi is displayed at the Hawaii Convention Center over the Festival weekend.

Sabaki Girl Tuna Cutting LIVE at Japan Food Festival

Event Time 11:00 - (Mar 10(Sun) )
Place Hawaii Convention Center

Enjoy the ‘Sabaki Girl’ skillfully and energetically cut through a tuna relying on a single knife, right before your eyes. The live show will showcase dismantling the tuna, sharing interesting facts about the carefully raised tuna from Uwakai, as well as engaging in fun quizzes during the live show.

ONIGIRI ACTION at Japan Food Festival

Event Time 13:00 - (Mar 10(Sun) )
Place

Take on the challenge of crafting your own rice ball! ONIGIRI ACTION is an annual fall social media campaign with a simple act of taking a photo can help feed underprivileged school children.