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  "description": "Green hats, fiddles, and a parade through Ōsu’s arcades—followed by a live music night at Brazil Coffee in Kanayama.",
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  "textContent": "## Nagoya's St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Party\n\nIt is late March in Nagoya, a day that sits in the narrow space between winter and spring. The wind moving through the covered arcades of Ōsu still has some bite. Jackets are lighter. By early afternoon green hats, scarves, and face paint have started popping up around the giant _**Maneki-neko**_ statue — the plaza everyone simply calls _The Cat._\n\n**It is Saturday, March 21, 2026,** and Nagoya’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade begins here.\n\nEveryone starts gathering at 12:00 at Maneki-neko Square (まねきねこ広場) inside the Ōsu Kannon shopping district. Irish music and dance get things moving as people assemble — volunteers hand out banners, someone inevitably turns up dressed as St. Patrick, crozier in hand. Groups arrive together: Irish expats, local families, musicians, dancers, and a healthy number of Nagoyans who have simply decided that wearing green for the afternoon sounds like a reasonable plan.\n\nPeople adjust their costumes, pin shamrocks onto jackets, dig through bags for green scarves they brought to get in the spirit. Coffee drifts out of nearby cafés. The arcade fills with fiddles warming up and, somewhere further along, the low drone of pipes shift in the breeze.\n\n_Then the parade sets off at 14:30._\n\nFrom The Cat, the procession works its way slowly through the covered shopping streets. Banner carriers, musicians, dancers, community groups and snakes slither away at the visage (an extremely rough interpretation) of the saint himself. The arcade is narrow enough that it all feels close — shoppers pause mid-errand to stare, store owners pop outside, the occasional person just falls in behind the procession and keeps walking and become part of the celebration.\n\nIrish flags, handmade signs, kids with green face paint. Someone attempting an enthusiastic but not entirely accurate Irish jig. More alcohol than actual footwork seems suspiciously at play.\n\nThe route eventually opens out onto the temple grounds — the covered arcade giving way to the blue of open sky, to the vermilion of Ōsu Kannon suddenly in view. The procession loosens and slows into a mingle. People who haven’t seen each other in months find each other in the crowd. Kids who were toddlers last year are running around unsupervised. Someone produces a can of _Chu-hai_ from a jacket pocket. Someone else has a Guinness that’s been warming since noon. There is a lot of laughing. For a stretch of afternoon in Ōsu, everyone feels a bit Irish — even the accents start to drift.\n\nHowever St. Patrick got rid of the snakes, it seems to warrant a celebration, a proper night out. So the festivities move on to Kanayama.\n\n## After The Parade\n\n**A Night of Music and Laughter**\n\nInterior stage setup at Brazil Coffee in Kanayama, Nagoya\n\nKanayama is a different kind of neighborhood to Ōsu — less arcade and temple, more station interchange and _izakaya_ , the kind of area where the night starts. The venue — **Brazil Coffee** — sits a few minutes walk from the station. It hides itself on the ground floor of an unremarkable building that gives nothing away from the outside.\n\nYet inside is another matter. This place is all Showa Charm and dimension shifting realaxation. They have been roasting their own coffee beans here since the early 1970s. It time trips you into the world of wood paneling, warm light, and that distinct the smell of roast coffee, a scent that has worked its way into the fabric, the paneling — imbues the air. It is the vibe that has been _thrumbling_ here over fifty years. During the day this spot is old skool _kissaten_ , the kind that still exists in Nagoya if you know where to look. Yet on certain nights it becomes something else entirely — an intimate live venue where the stage is close, the room fills fast, and the sound embraces you before you find a place to sit or sway.\n\nOn the night of March 21st, the lineup opens with Irish folk, shifts to the rhythm of British mod and blues being driven by the siren keys of a Hammond organ. Somewhere toward the end of the night it merges with the edgy knock of Korean garage rock. Though coffee is still available, most people will be drinking something else.\n\nEveryone is here to celebrate.\n_Community\nMusic,\nA moment of joy._\n\n## The Lineup\n\n\n### Roast Pork\n\n**Roast Pork ___(actual band name)_** have been playing Irish music in Nagoya long enough that most people in the room already know their sets.\n\nNagoya Irish session band Roast Pork performing live.\n\nThe band formed in 2004 as the house band at**Bumphy’s** , the Irish pub in Ikeshita that was a fixture of the city’s East End expat scene before it closed. The name was given to them by Bumphy’s owner, the late **Robert Lou** (R.I.P), and it stuck. Their sets pull from Irish traditional music and **Paddy Beat** pub songs — the kind meant to be played loudly, sung along with, and occasionally shouted over a pint. _Or three._\n\n* * *\n\n### The Absolude, feat. Bryn Barklam\n\n**The Absolude** have been working the Japanese mod circuit since 2003 — tight guitars, Hammond organ, the sharp-edged rhythm and blues of the British mod era.\n\nNagoya mod band The Absolude.\n\n\nFor this show they’re joined by **Bryn Barklam** , who came up in the London acid jazz scene in the 1990s playing Hammond with **Mother Earth** , a band built around the intersection of soul, jazz-funk, and mod.\n\nBritish Hammond organist Bryn Barklam performing live\n\n* * *\n\n### Cha Cha (Cha Seung-woo / 차승우)\n\nIn the Korean rock film **_Go Go 70s_** , **Cha Seung-woo** played **Mansik** — guitarist in a band navigating the Seoul underground scene of the 1970s.\n\nCha Cha (Cha Seung-woo) - Korean Garage Rock\n\nIn real life he came up playing punk with **No Brain** , one of the bands that shaped Korea’s modern underground, then shifted toward the garage rock and blues end of things with The Moonshiners. He’s performing as **_Cha Cha_**. A Korean garage-rock actor on a St. Patrick’s night bill in Nagoya is another extra worth showing up for.\n\n* * *\n\n### Brian Cullen\n\nBrian Cullen has been playing around Nagoya long enough that he’s become part of the furniture (well... a bar stool anyway! (_lol Cart_) — which is meant as a compliment.\n\nNagoya Irish folk musician Brian Cullen\n\nSinger-guitarist, songwriter, Brian handles Irish folk masterfully, his accent gives credibility to pub standards. He delivers the kind of sets where people come in as strangers leave knowing the place a bit better. He turns up regularly at bars, small venues, and community events across the city. Brian is the sort of musician who shows up — not because there’s a big crowd to impress but because the night needs music.\n\n* * *\n\n### Banna Beag\n\nNagoya’s Irish music circle, organizers of regular sessions in parks and pubs around the city.\n\nIrish and Celtic music ensemble Banna Beag\n\nFiddles, whistles, guitars,_bodhráns_. They also run beginner-friendly slow sessions for anyone who wants to learn. On a night like this, they’re the connective tissue between the parade and the party.\n\n## The Details\n\n**Nagoya St. Patrick’s Day Parade\nDate:** Sat, Mar. 21, 2026\n**Opening ceremony:** 12:00\n**Parade start:** 14:30\n**Location:**\nŌsu Kannon Shopping Arcade\n**Gathering point:**\nManeki-neko Square\n(まねきねこ広場)\n\n### Access\n\n**Ōsu Kannon Station**\n**Tsurumai Line — T01 (Exit 2)**\nWalk south along Ōsu Kannon-dori for about 2 minutes. The temple and arcade entrance will appear directly ahead. **Maneki-neko Squar** e is a short walk inside the arcade. Look for the big waving cat.\n\n**Kamimaezu Station**\n**Meijo Line — M03 / Tsurumai Line — T09 (Exit 8)**\nWalk west along Ōsu Shopping Street for about 5 minutes toward Ōsu Kannon Temple. _Maneki-neko_ _Square_ is inside the arcade just before the temple area.\n\n## MAP\n\n##\nThe After Party\n\n**Nagoya Saint Patrick's Day Double Header\nStart:** 19:00\n**Ticket:** ¥3,000\n(includes one drink)\n\n**Brazil Coffee**\nKanayama Cosmo Building 1F,\n4-6-22 Kanayama\nNaka-ku, Nagoya\n\n**Tel:** (052) 321-5223\n\n### Access\n\n**Kanayama Station**\nSubway Meijo Line — M01 / Subway Meiko Line — E01 / JR Chūō Line / Meitetsu Nagoya Line\nExit: North Exit (地下鉄北口)\n\nWalk north about 3–4 minutes. Brazil Coffee is on the first floor of Kanayama Cosmo Building.\n\n**From the Parade (Ōsu / Kamimaezu)**\nFrom Kamimaezu Station (Meijo Line — M03), take the clockwise Meijo Line to Kanayama (M01). About 7 minutes, 3 stops. Exit North Exit and walk 3–4 minutes.\n\n**From Ōsu Kannon Station** (Tsurumai Line — T01)\nTake the Tsurumai Line toward Fushimi, change at Kamimaezu (T09) to the Meijo Line, continue to Kanayama (M01). About 10–12 minutes total.\n\n## MAP\n\n### Nagoya Subway Map\n\nCheck out our guide to using the Nagoya Subway:\nhttps://www.nagoyabuzz.com/using-the-nagoya-subway/\n\n\n****What else is going on in Nagoya?****\n\nNagoya Buzz is a weekly guide to events, food, and the things that make this city worth paying attention to. More where this came from on our Events page.\n\n→ ****See what’s happening in Nagoya this week****!",
  "title": "St. Patrick’s Day in Ōsukannon 3 | 21",
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