Golden Week Japan 2025 Calendar. Golden week (ゴールデンウイーク), often just called “gw”, is a collection of national holidays that happen in the same week from april 29 to may 5. I'm moving to japan for 6 months in january 2025.

April 29th (tuesday), then from may 3rd (saturday) to may. During this time, the following national holidays are observed: