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Best days to take off in 2026: Japan

Tell us how many vacation days you have. We line them up with every public holiday and weekend on the Japan calendar to give you the most time off.

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Assumes a Saturday and Sunday weekend; regional holidays are not included.

🇯🇵 Japan · 2026

10 days → 22 off

Every vacation day becomes 2.2 days off

Your plan for 2026

vacation holiday weekend

Take 5 days: Mon, Nov 9 – Fri, Nov 13

9 days off · Sat, Nov 7 – Sun, Nov 15, 2026

Take 1 day: Fri, Nov 20

4 days off · Fri, Nov 20 – Mon, Nov 23, 2026

Labor Thanksgiving Day

Take 4 days: Mon, Dec 28 – Thu, Dec 31

9 days off · Sat, Dec 26 – Sun, Jan 3, 2027

New Year's Day

National public holidays from official government sources, compiled through the open-source holidays dataset and reviewed by Glassyear. Last verified Monday, November 9, 2026. Data & methodology · Report a correction