Where is Everything? 

The Sakura Matsuri – Japanese Street Festival stretches for six blocks through downtown DC: on Pennsylvania Avenue from 10th Street to 14th Street, and on 12th Street from Pennsylvania Avenue to Constitution Avenue. For an aerial view of the Festival grounds, click here.

Take the Metro to the Sakura Matsuri. The Federal Triangle station is right in the middle of the Festival, and the Metro Center, Archives-Navy Memorial, and the Smithsonian stations are a short walk away.

To see where everything is, click here to download a Festival map.

There are five stages:  

• All Nippon Airways Pennsylvania Avenue Stage (Pennsylvania Avenue between 13th and 14th Streets)

• McDonald’s J-Pop Stage (10th and Pennsylvania)

• Martial Arts Stage (on Freedom Plaza, 14th and Pennsylvania)

• The 12th Street Stage (12th Street, mid-way between Pennsylvania and Constitution Avenues)

• The Constitution Avenue Stage (at 12th and Constitution)
  
  

There are over 20 Japanese and Asian food vendors on 12th Street and on Pennsylvania Avenue between 12th and 11th Streets.

There are two Kirin Ichiban Beer Gardens: one on 12th Street and the other on Pennsylvania Avenue near 11th Street. The Hakutsuru Sake Tasting Pavilion is at the corner of Pennsylvania and 11th Street.

You can buy Japanese products in the Ginza Marketplace (Pennsylvania Avenue near 13th Street) or at the shops in J-Pop Land (Pennsylvania Avenue between 11th and 10th Streets).

There are four Matsuri Markets scattered throughout the Festival grounds which sell Coca-Cola products, Japanese snacks and teas, and Japanese novelties. 

The Children’s Corner, filled with lots of hands-on activities for young people, is on Freedom Plaza (Pennsylvania Avenue and 13th Street)