{"id":3757,"date":"2019-09-08T15:52:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T06:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/rokko-island-halloween-harvest-festival-kobe\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T11:34:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:34:45","slug":"rokko-island-halloween-harvest-festival-kobe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/rokko-island-halloween-harvest-festival-kobe\/","title":{"rendered":"Rokko Island Halloween Harvest Festival in Kobe 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re in the area, you should check out the Rokko Island Halloween and Harvest Festival. \u00a0This festival is one of the largest in the Hanshin region, and it occurs just across Kobe on Rokko Island at the River Mall. Grab your kids, friends, and family, put your best costumes on and head over to the Halloween celebrations. With a parade, costume contest, pumpkin carving, a haunted house, performances, various food booths, and trick-or-treating, there is sure to be something for everyone to enjoy at this exciting annual event!<\/p>\n

Costume Parade: <\/strong>Whether you\u2019re wearing a costume yourself or not, seeing the parade is undoubtedly worth your while. Over 2,000 participants take part in this parade that kicks off the festival weekend with an exciting opening display of all of the fun ways people get into the Halloween spirit. The parade begins at 11:30 a.m., but if you\u2019re planning on joining make sure you arrive early because registration starts at 10:30 a.m. It\u2019s free to participate as long as you\u2019ve got a costume on! Also, bring the kiddos because the first 700 kids to sign up\u00a0will receive a special holiday treat!<\/p>\n

Costume Contest: <\/strong>After the parade winds down, head over to the North Stage to see some of the best costumes up close. If you\u2019re proud of your own, make sure to enter ahead of time and register for the contest! Registration is free and not restricted based on age. Last year, the first prize winner took home the cash prize as well as tickets to Universal Studios Japan, so if you\u2019re dressing up you might as well jump in the contest!<\/p>\n

Trick or Treat: <\/strong>What\u2019s Halloween without trick-or-treating? Elementary age children and younger wearing costumes are welcome to tour around the venue and collect treats and candies.<\/p>\n

Haunted House: <\/strong>Costumes and candy are undoubtedly fun, but this festival wouldn\u2019t be complete without at least a little bit of fright! Check out the haunted house if you\u2019re in for a scare!<\/p>\n

Pumpkin Carving: <\/strong>Make sure you don\u2019t leave the festival without heading over to the pumpkin carving<\/p>\n

tent so you can partake in this traditional Halloween pastime!<\/p>\n

Stage Performances<\/strong>:\u00a0Throughout the festival, various talented groups and young artists will take the stage to ensure you\u2019re entertained the whole weekend long.<\/p>\n

Food Booths<\/strong>:\u00a0If you\u2019re not already too full from the delicious candy and treats, you\u2019ll undoubtedly have more than enough other yummy and cheap options for eating at this festival.<\/p>\n

Rokko Island Halloween Harvest Festival 2019<\/h2>\n

Where:<\/strong> Rokko Island River Mall area, 2 Chome K\u014dy\u014dch\u014dnaka <\/a>(Map link)<\/a>
\nDates: <\/strong>October 26-27, 2019
\nTime: <\/strong>11:00 a.m. \u2013 5:00 p.m.
\nAdmission:<\/strong> Free (a few activities will cost a small fee)
\nTel: <\/strong>078-857-0677<\/p>\n

www.rokko-island.com\/event\/27\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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Image from\u00a0 www.rokko-island.com, used without persmission.<\/p>\n

Image by Mr.\u3061\u3085\u3089\u3055\u3093 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>], via Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re in the area, you should check out the Rokko Island Halloween and Harvest Festival. \u00a0This festival is one of the largest in the Hanshin region, and it occurs just across Kobe on Rokko Island at the River Mall. Grab your kids, friends, and family, put your best costumes on and head over to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":3758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,68,165],"tags":[69,236,72,74,96],"class_list":["post-3757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-festivals","category-kobe","tag-event","tag-halloween","tag-hyogo-prefecture","tag-kobe-city","tag-october"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50458,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757\/revisions\/50458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}