Japan Public holidays
Japan has 35 public holidays on the calendar held here, in force from 1 Jan 2026. Last checked against the official source on 30 Jul 2026.
National holidays of Japan for calendar 2026 under the Act on National Holidays, including substitute and bridge holidays generated by the Act's Article 3 rules.
| Current value | 35 days held |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2026-01-01 |
| In force until | 2026-12-31 |
| Official source | Cabinet Office, 'Kokumin no shukujitsu ni tsuite' (national holidays overview and 2026 dates), under the Act on National Holidays (Act No. 178 of 1948, as amended) |
| Last verified | 2026-07-30 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
16 statutory holidays plus 2 generated days = 18 non-working public holidays in 2026, as listed by the Cabinet Office. Substitution rules applied: Art. 3(2) - a holiday falling on Sunday is replaced by the nearest following non-holiday weekday, so Constitution Memorial Day (Sun 2026-05-03) produces the substitute on Wed 2026-05-06 (May 4-5 are themselves holidays); Art. 3(3) - a weekday sandwiched between two holidays becomes a holiday, making Tue 2026-09-22 a 'kokumin no kyujitsu' between Respect for the Aged Day (Mon 09-21) and Autumnal Equinox Day (Wed 09-23). Equinox dates (Mar 20, Sep 23) are fixed by the official gazette calendar notice published in February of the preceding year; the Cabinet Office also publishes a machine-readable CSV (syukujitsu.csv) on the same page. Deliberate exclusions: Dec 31-Jan 3 New Year customary closures, Obon (mid-August) and Christmas are NOT statutory holidays; there are no prefectural statutory holidays. 2027 EXTENSION (2026-07-30): the 16 national holidays of the Act on National Holidays plus one substitute day. The nth-weekday 'Happy Monday' holidays are computed for 2027 (Coming of Age = 2nd Monday of January, 11 January; Marine Day = 3rd Monday of July, 19 July; Respect for the Aged = 3rd Monday of September, 20 September; Sports Day = 2nd Monday of October, 11 October). The two astronomical holidays are NOT estimated: the National Astronomical Observatory's reki-yoko for Reiwa 9 was published in the Kanpo (official gazette) on 2 February 2026, fixing the Vernal Equinox at 21 March and the Autumnal Equinox at 23 September 2027. The Art. 3(2) substitute-holiday rule fires once: the Vernal Equinox falls on Sunday 21 March, so Monday 22 March is a substitute holiday. The Art. 3(3) 'citizens' holiday' bridge rule does NOT fire in 2027 — the gap between Respect for the Aged Day (Monday 20 September) and the Autumnal Equinox (Thursday 23 September) is two days, not one — so unlike 2026 no bridge day is served.
Get it programmatically
curl https://asiaref.dev/v1/jp/public-holidays
# Free.
# History: curl https://asiaref.dev/v1/jp/public-holidays/history?from=2020-01-01
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The same figure elsewhere: Jordan · Kazakhstan · Kuwait · Malaysia · Nepal · all 28