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  "description": "Fire pits, 100+ vendors, and outdoor culture inside Higashi Betsuin Temple. A winter gathering in central Nagoya, Feb 21–22.",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-14T08:53:30.000Z",
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    "**Urban Owl 2026 Website**",
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    "Check out our handy guide to using the Nagoya Subway",
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  "textContent": "### Urban Night Owl 2026\n\nIf you've ever walked past **Higashi Betsuin** **Temple** and thought _this would be a good place for a campfire_ , someone beat you to it.\n\nOn **February 21–22,** the temple grounds in Naka-ku will fill with metal fire pits, outdoor gear, wood smoke, coffee stands, and over a hundred market vendors for **URBAN NIGHT OWL 2026.** It's a two-day urban outdoor gathering that's become one of the better reasons to leave your apartment in February.\n\nTake note. This is NOT a _matsuri_. This is NOT a market.\n\nIt is a unique winter combination of the two.\n\n**Temple as Campground\nHigashi Betsuin **(真宗大谷派名古屋別院) sits a few minutes from Higashi Betsuin Station. Most people pass it unless there's a flea market or ceremony happening.\n\nBut for one weekend each February, the wide stone courtyard becomes something else entirely.\n\nOrganizers set up more than 20 fire pits, including a custom-built **\"Ohigashi Fire Pit\"** designed specifically for the space. People gather around them with drinks, food, and whatever they've just bought from the market. You rarely get to sit around an open fire in central Nagoya.\n\nYou don't need to be a \"camper,\" and still enjoy the feeling without the hassle.\n\nThis year's theme is **「遊ばん?」 (roughly, \"Want to hang out?\").** Outdoor culture that doesn't require leaving the city.\n\nYou can enjoy sitting by a fire in Naka-ku and call it a weekend.\n\n### 100+ Vendors\n\nThe 2026 edition features more than 100 brands and shops. By my recollection this is the largest lineup in the event's history.\n\nExpect independent outdoor gear makers, woodworkers and leather craftsmen, apparel brands you won't find in department stores, specialty coffee stands, food vendors, and small garage brands making things you didn't know you wanted.\n\nWhat fun here is being able to handle gear you've only seen in magazines or online while talking directly to the people who make it. Lanterns, fire pits, knives, bags. Let's just call it camper _fetish gear._\n\n### Workshop\n\nThe standout workshop this year isn't decorative. It's hands-on and collaborative.\n\nParticipants create an original wooden demitasse cup from walnut offcuts. You shape it on a wood lathe, have it laser-engraved with a limited design, fabricate a brass handle, then use it for freshly brewed coffee on site.\n\nFour different makers are involved. Each day is limited to five participants. Small and intentional.\n\nIf you've been looking for something more tactile than another food festival, this place is it. No lines of people waiting for ramen out in the cold.\n\n### Saturday vs Sunday\n\nThis is a two day event. Saturday runs 15:00–21:00 and includes alcohol sales (note that Sunday _does not_). The fire pits become the focal point once the light drops. Sunday shifts to 10:00–16:00 and is more of a daytime market.\n\nEntry is ¥1,000 per day. Under 18 and over 70 are free. You'll receive a wristband, which you show when making purchases inside the venue. Advance tickets include a sticker, though day-of entry is available.\n\n### Sauna Collaboration\n\nThere's also a limited collaboration with **KIWAMI SAUNA Osu** , about a 10-minute walk from the temple. Its a steller spot to heat up and relax.\n\nOnly six spots are available however, and... well it is only for men. It costs ¥7,200. and runs from 22:00 Saturday through early Sunday morning. So you can spend the evening around bonfires, reset in a wood-heavy sauna space, then return for day two. It will sell out. It may already have.\n\n**Who Shows Up**\nIf you're expecting floats and _taiko_ drums, this is the wrong event.\n\nBut if you like coffee brewed over flame, talking to makers about the tools they built, or sitting around a fire in February without leaving the city, then it's worth showing up. And bonus points for those that are into independent Japanese outdoor culture. And anyway—how often do you get to spend sitting around a fire at at 17th-century religious site.\n\n¥1,000 gets you in. You don't need to buy anything. You can walk in, find a fire pit, and stay as long as you want\n\n## The Details\n\n**URBAN NIGHT OWL 2026\nVenue:**\nHigashi Betsuin Temple\n(真宗大谷派名古屋別院)\n\n**Date:**\nFeb. 21 (Sat) – Feb. 22 (Sun), 2026\n\n**Times:**\nSat 15:00–21:00 (alcohol sales)\nSun 10:00–16:00\n\n**Price:** ¥1,000 per day\n(Free for under 18 and over 70)\n\n**Address:**\n2-8-55 Tachibana, Naka-ku, Nagoya\n\n**Tickets:**\nAvailable on site or online\n**Urban Owl 2026 Website**\n\n**On Instagram**\n\n### Access\n\n**Venue:** Higashi Betsuin Temple (東別院)\n**Address:** 2-8-55 Tachibana, Naka-ku, Nagoya\n\n**From Nagoya Station:**\nTake the **Higashiyama Line (Yellow)** to **Sakae (H10)** → transfer to the **Meijō Line (Purple)** → 2 stops to **Higashi Betsuin (M01)**\nTotal travel time: about 15–20 minutes.\n\n**From Kanayama Station (JR + Meitetsu hub):**\nTake the **Meijō Line (Purple)** → 1 stop to **Higashi Betsuin (M01)**\nRide time: about 2 minutes.\n\n### Nagoya Subway Map\n\nCheck out our handy guide to using the Nagoya Subway\n\n## MAP\n\n****What Going on in Nagoya?****\n\nNagoya Buzz publishes weekly guides to events, exhibitions, food, and the small local things that make living here easier (and occasionally stranger.)\n\n→ ****See what’s happening in Nagoya this week****!",
  "title": "Bonfires at Ohigashi",
  "updatedAt": "2026-02-15T05:38:28.829Z"
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