Asia Music Festivals
Evergreen guides to dates, tickets, camping, transit and how overseas fans can get in.
Macao International Music Festival
MacauA month-long classical, opera, and world-music season staged in UNESCO World Heritage venues — genuinely easy for foreign visitors to attend.
Day-trip MOP 150 ≈ $1938 TBA Read more →
Jazzmandu (Kathmandu Jazz Festival)
KathmanduSouth Asia's biggest and longest-running international jazz festival — a week of intimate club and garden concerts across the Kathmandu Valley.
Day-trip NPR 1,000 ≈ $72026 TBA Read more →
Freespace Jazz Fest
Hong KongWorld-class jazz on Hong Kong's most stunning harbourfront — and most of it is free.
Day-trip HK$480 ≈ $618 TBA Read more →Seoul Jazz Festival
SeoulWorld-class jazz, soul and pop crossover in the heart of Seoul's Olympic Park, minutes from downtown.
Day-trip ₩189,000 ≈ $1362027 TBA Read more →Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival
JakartaOne of the world's biggest jazz festivals — indoor, city-centre, English-comfortable and the easiest Indonesian festival for a first-timer.
Day-trip IDR 400,000 ≈ $242027 TBA Read more →
Prambanan Jazz Festival
Yogyakarta (Prambanan)Hear world-class jazz and pop unfold on an open-air stage in front of a 9th-century UNESCO World Heritage temple — a concert setting found nowhere else on Earth.
Day-trip IDR 750,000 ≈ $4613 TBA Read more →
Kobe Jazz Street
兵庫縣神戶市 Kobe, HyogoWander a historic port city's jazz clubs, churches and old foreign settlement all evening on a single all-access badge — no other ticket, just follow the music.
Day-trip 2026 prices not yet announced (the official site states they will be announced once finalized). For reference, 2025 (42nd edition) prices: one-day advance ¥4,100 / at-door ¥4,600; two-day advance ¥7,700 / at-door ¥8,700; student ticket ¥1,000.in 33 days Read more →
Yokohama Jazz Promenade
Yokohama, KanagawaNo single pass here — instead, free street-corner jazz breaks out across downtown Yokohama all weekend, with paid hall shows for the acts you really want to sit down for.
Day-trip ¥4,000 ≈ $26in 33 days Read more →
Borneo Jazz Festival
Miri, SarawakOne of Southeast Asia's longest-running international jazz festivals, set on a golf course carved out of Bornean rainforest in Miri, Sarawak — a laid-back, tropical alternative to Asia's big-city jazz fests.
Day-trip MYR 80 ≈ $18in 46 days Read more →GREENROOM FESTIVAL
YokohamaA beach-culture, surf-and-soul weekend on Yokohama's waterfront that pulls in major international R&B, soul, and jazz names alongside Japanese acts — no camping, easy late-night trains from Tokyo.
Day-trip ¥28,000 ≈ $179in 257 days Read more →