Now yes! The weather won’t stop you from enjoying this great Japanese festival in the streets of Palermo. The first great Matsuri of 2025 is finally here. Experience this great Japanese festival without setting foot in Japan because this Buenos Aires market is filled with music, flavors and Japanese dance. If you do not know what to do the weekend of February 15 and 16, you already have a very international plan with this Matsuri at Mercat Villa Crespo.
Matsuri 2025 at Mercat Villa Crespo
The Mercat de Villa Crespo celebrates a Matsuri on February 15 and 16. Matsuri is the Japanese word for festival or festivity. For this time of the year, there are several festivals or Matsuri that are celebrated in Japan, from the New Year, the snow festival or the beginning of spring, there are many reasons for a Matsuri.
This summer in Buenos Aires you have an appointment to enjoy your own Matsuri. It promises to be much more than a Japanese festival, it is an explosion of culture, music, dance and flavors.
What will you be able to enjoy at this Matsuri Mercat in Villa Crespo?
Celebrate in style with Bon Odori dancing, parades, artists and live entertainment, as well as eating Asian food in one of the markets in Buenos Aires that has an entire floor dedicated to it.
The first Matsuri of 2025 brings you live shows with Nikkei rock and pop bands, traditional Japanese dances, taiko drums and the magic of Bon Odori, the traditional dance that symbolizes joy and union. In addition, enjoy a cultural and cosplay fair with more than 50 stands of Asian products, manga, anime and Japanese art.
During these two days, you will be able to eat the best Asian food, with the best flavors of Japan offered by Mercat Villa Crespo with a variety of Japanese street food options: from onigiris, yakitori, sandos to takoyakis and okonomiyaki, as well as traditional sweets such as dango or taiyaki.
The Mercat Villa Crespo also has a super varied gastronomic offer for all tastes, that’s why it is one of the meeting places on weekends to go out, have a good beer and spend the afternoon eating delicious food. It has, as we were saying, a whole floor dedicated to Asian cuisine, so if you have never been there, it is an extraordinary day to discover it.
Admission is free so you just have to decide to go and let yourself be carried away by the Japanese flavors and sounds.
February 15th and 16th. From 12hs.
📍 Thames 747
🎟 Admission: Free.