Oedo Waen Soba and Sake Festival

Slurp soba noodles from all over the country and wash them down with fine sake at this stellar Yoyogi Park festival. Around 20 specialist eateries representing famed noodle-making regions (including Hokkaido's Horokanai and Fukushima’s Oku-Aizu) hawk their wares in the soba zone. The sake zone, meanwhile, is where you can taste over 100 varieties of nihonshu – or go for beginner-friendly sparkling sake and umeshu instead. Best of all, the prices are very reasonable: soba dishes go for ¥700 while the sake are priced at ¥300 to ¥500 per cup.