25 things to do this weekend

Sunday

Yokohama Oktoberfest 2011
Raise your glasses: the Kanto area's longest running and most seasonally appropriate Oktoberfest wraps up today, after a two-week feast of beers and bratwurst in the grounds of Yokohama's Red Brick Warehouse. Read more

Diwali in Yokohama
If you're not in the mood for hardcore boozing (or just want some alternative distraction), head to Yokohama's Yamashita Park instead for a healthy dose of Indian music, dancing and food – lots of food. Read more

Sancha de Daidogei 2011
There'll be acrobats, clowns, musicians, dancers and assorted costumed freaks plying their trade in the streets of Sangenjaya all day today – great free entertainment, especially if you've got kids who need distracting. Read more

Sancha Music Festival 2011
As the Sancha de Daidogei antics wind down, the DJs will be taking over. Shinichi Osawa and a host of others play at the top of Carrot Tower, then the action moves to assorted bars around the area. Read more

Psysalia Psysalis Psyche
As hard to peg as their name is to pronounce, rock quintet Psysalia Psysalis Psyche are celebrating their latest single release with a party featuring a welter of underground guitar bands and some nifty DJs to boot. Read more

The Ten Sixteen Gig
If the names Scott Henderson, Jeff Berlin and Dennis Chambers mean anything to you, you've probably already got your tickets for this muso orgy, in which the virtuosos reprise their popular jazz fusion supergroup. Read more

Ego-Wrappin' vs Breakfast
In what seems like a chalk-and-cheese pairing, rockin' Osaka jazz unit Ego-Wrappin' (appearing with a new all-female backing band, The Bikini Bandits) are going head to head with Tokyo hardcore perennials Breakfast. Read more