Is there any calendar of drift events in Japan?

Yes. We keep one: the Drift Japan Event & Track Calendar lists every drift date we have confirmed against an official page, from D1 Grand Prix and Formula Drift Japan rounds to the Ebisu matsuri and the organiser days at circuits like Meihan and Mobara, with each entry’s fee, the date its entry window shuts and the date we last checked it. The same list is an .ics feed at /calendar.ics, so you can subscribe in your own calendar app and have the dates update as we do. The dates come from many separate official pages, each series, circuit and organiser posting its own, almost none of it in English.

Three things about how a Japanese drift calendar behaves, from our November 2026 trip planner:

• Competition dates are firm a year out; grassroots days are not. The big series fix their calendars early, but organiser track days, where locals run door to door for ¥10,000, are published two to four weeks ahead: in early September 2026 neither Mobara nor Nikko had published its November sheet. Fix the competition weekend first and let the small days fall in around it.
• The date that matters is often the entry deadline, not the event. Ebisu’s Autumn Drift Matsuri is 14–15 November 2026, but the advance application window runs only from 00:00 JST on Sunday 11 October to Friday 23 October; miss it and you pay ¥25,000 instead of ¥20,000 and cannot book a pit. Our matsuri dates and deadlines page walks through that window; the calendar shows the equivalent cut-off for every round we have verified.
• Some dates are fixed before their venue is. The D1 Grand Prix finale was set for 14–15 November 2026 while its venue still read T.B.A. on the official page as of 4 September; the calendar carried the date and flagged the gap, and the venue has since been announced as a temporary course at Odaiba on Tokyo’s waterfront, the only D1GP round reachable from central Tokyo by train.

For scale, the confirmed November 2026 dates as of 25 September were D1 NEXT at YZ Circuit East near Nagoya, the FDJ3 final at Tsukuruma, EDS Rd.3 at Ebisu and the Kansai All-Star Drift GP at Meihan, all on Sunday 1 November; D1 NEXT at Mobara on 8 November; the Ebisu Autumn Matsuri and the D1 finale at Odaiba on 14–15 November; the JDC final at Bihoku and the Paradise Drift Day at Motorland Mikawa (Aichi) on 29 November.

Each row also names the booking method, because, as our track day entry guide explains, whether a day is booked by web system, email, phone or fax decides whether you get in as much as the date does.

Turning a calendar date into a day in the car is the part that does not fit in a spreadsheet, and that is what we arrange: tell us your dates and region and we build the day around the event.