Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse Christmas Market 2026: tickets go on sale Nov 6 at noon Japan time (10 p.m. in Toronto)

If a late-November or December trip to the Tokyo area is on your list, Yokohama's Red Brick Warehouse Christmas Market is one of the easiest big-city Christmas stops to plan. The event runs Friday, November 20 through Friday, December 25, 2026 (36 days) at Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse's event plaza and Akarenga Park. All paid entry tickets go on sale on Friday, November 6, 2026, at 12:00 noon Japan time.

The organisers say dates and content can change, so check the official Christmas Market site the day you buy.

What you're buying tickets for

This is the 17th edition of Christmas Market in Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse. The venue is a pair of Meiji-era brick warehouses on the Minato Mirai waterfront, filled for the season with German-style wooden huts (Hütte), food and goods stalls, and a roughly 11-metre live Akaezomatsu Christmas tree lit with about 20,000 LEDs.

From the official site and the October 21, 2026 organiser release:

• About 60 food and goods booths.
• German classics plus this year's white Glühwein (offered at about 20 stalls), and the first live-kitchen stalls (sausages grilled to order, prosciutto sliced in front of you, fresh Krapfen).
• Light-up from 16:00 until close (the tree runs until 23:00).
• Two free adjacent areas: Yoru no Yo × Christmas Gate 2026 at Shinko Central Plaza, and Christmas Village in Akarenga Park (Pokémon collaboration details due mid-November).

Opening hours

Held in rain; may close in severe weather. Hours can differ by area or content.

Ticket types and prices (tax included)

The site splits the calendar into regular days and specific days. Specific days are: Dec 5–6, Dec 12–13, Dec 18–20, and Dec 24–25. Everything else in the Nov 20–Dec 25 window is a regular day.

Food and shopping are extra. There are no group sales or discounts on entry tickets.

Who gets in free

• Elementary-school age and younger: free, with a guardian.
• Through Friday, December 4: junior-high age and younger are also free.
• Yokohama Citizen Thanks Day: Wednesday, November 25 — Yokohama residents are invited in free (details on the official site).
• Parts of the site (Christmas Gate, Christmas Village) are free for everyone.

If a free child is with a priority-ticket holder, they can enter through the priority gate together. Without a priority-ticket companion, use the standard gate.

How overseas visitors should buy

For anyone flying in from Canada, the practical split is:

1. Want a card payment or a priority / mug / lounge ticket? Buy on Asoview! when the sale opens. Priority and lounge tickets are advance-only and capped by date.
2. Happy to pay cash at the gate for a standard ticket? You can buy at the main entrance on the day — cash only for on-site standard tickets. Inside the market, shops take cash and cashless; brands vary by stall.

Two points we could not confirm from an official page, so treat them as unconfirmed:

• Whether a foreign-issued credit card will go through on Asoview! (Asoview's help centre lists VISA, Mastercard, JCB, Diners, Discover, and American Express on some plans, but does not say overseas-issued cards are accepted).
• Whether Asoview! offers a full English purchase flow for these tickets (asoview.com/en/ returned 404 when checked; the Christmas Market site is Japanese and tells buyers to check Asoview for payment methods).

If either fails at checkout, your fallback is cash at the gate for a standard ticket — bring yen. The official FAQ says there is an ATM on the first floor of Red Brick Warehouse Building No. 2, but that building opens at 11:00 a.m.

A simple sale-night checklist

1. Set an alarm for 10:00 p.m. Toronto time on Nov 5 (noon JST on Nov 6; 7:00 p.m. in Vancouver).
2. Decide regular day vs specific day, and standard vs priority, before the sale opens.
3. If you want priority, a Noritake mug, or the Premium Lounge, be on Asoview! at open — those sell out by date.
4. Bring cash anyway if you might buy a standard ticket at the gate.
5. Pair the visit with a Tokyo-area day: Minato Mirai is a short train hop from central Tokyo.

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For other winter light stops already covered on DOJI JOURNAL, see Tokyo Disney Christmas 2026, Universal Studios Japan Christmas 2026, and Huis Ten Bosch Starlight Million.

Sources

• Christmas Market in Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse, official special site: period (Nov 20–Dec 25), hours, light-up times, regular vs specific days, standard / priority / mug / Premium Lounge prices, Asoview! vs on-site cash rules, free-entry ages, Yokohama Citizen Thanks Day, free areas; FAQ (cashless accepted inside the market, gate standard tickets cash-only, ATM in Building No. 2 from 11:00 a.m.). Fetched 2026-11-05.
• Organiser press release, PR TIMES, Oct 21, 2026 (Yokohama Red Brick Co.): 36-day span, ~60 stalls, white Glühwein, live-kitchen debut, ~11 m tree / ~20,000 LEDs, Premium Lounge outline, free Christmas Gate and Christmas Village notes, ticket sale start Nov 6 12:00. Fetched 2026-11-05.
• Asoview! Help: accepted card brands: brand list only; no overseas-issuer statement. Fetched 2026-11-05.

Cover photo: Yokohama waterfront skyline at night, seen across the water (harbour night view — not the Christmas Market itself). Photo by mos design via Unsplash.