Okayama Momo Anime Festival Brings Cosplay, Voice Actors and Anison to the City This Weekend

Event dates: 2026-10-24

Where: Omotecho Shopping District and surrounding areas (Tenmaya Okayama Main Store, Fukutake Jolly Building), Okayama, Japan

Genre: Anime & Cosplay Festival

The 4th Okayama Momo Anime Festival (momoani), a comprehensive anime event centered on Okayama's Omotecho shopping district, runs October 24, 2026, with a cosplay town walk, voice actor talk show, anime screenings, an Anison LIVE stage, and collaboration stores.

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Okayama's Omotecho shopping district becomes an anime festival this weekend.

A City-Wide Anime Day

The 4th Okayama Momo Anime Festival runs October 24, 2026, across the Omotecho shopping streets, Tenmaya Okayama Main Store, the Fukutake Jolly Building, and other participating locations.

Cosplay, Talk Shows and Live Stages

Officially listed activities include a cosplay town walk (10:00-17:00), a voice actor talk show, anime screenings, merchandise/exhibition booths, an Anison LIVE and cosplay performance stage, and collaboration stores. The changing room/cloakroom at Fukutake Jolly Building is open 09:00-17:30, with cloakroom use costing 2,000 yen.

Ask Marine

Want to know more about the cosplay walk area or the festival's programming? Ask Marine.

More About This Event

This Year's Highlights

• Cosplay town walk, 10:00-17:00, spanning Omotecho's shopping streets.
• Voice actor talk show, anime screenings, Anison LIVE and cosplay performance stage.
• Merchandise/exhibition booths and collaboration stores.

Tickets

Cosplay changing-room/cloakroom use costs 2,000 yen; see the official site for other admission details.

Access

Omotecho shopping streets (Kaminomachi, Nakanomachi, Shimonomachi, Sakaemachi, Kamiyacho, Saidaijicho, Shin-Saidaijicho, Sennichimae) and other participating locations, Okayama.

What To Know

A festival that turns an entire city shopping district into its own anime event - rather than confining cosplay and programming to one convention hall - gives fans a genuinely different kind of day out, walking real Okayama streets in costume between talk shows and live stages.

Momoani grew directly out of Okayama's Omotecho shopping district rather than being imported from a convention-center model, reflecting a broader trend of Japanese regional cities building anime events around their own existing streets and local businesses.

Easy Japanese

岡山の「おかやま桃アニメ祭」が10月24日に開かれます。コスプレ街歩きや声優トークショーなどが楽しめます。

What Fans Are Saying

• "Turning the whole shopping district into a festival is such a fun idea."
• "The Anison LIVE stage sounds like a great way to end the day."

Original Japanese

• 「商店街全体がイベント会場になるのは楽しい」
• 「アニソンLIVEステージが気になる」

Marine's View

商店街を歩きながらコスプレを楽しめるのは、ももアニらしい魅力ですね。