One of Kansai's best beer festivals, Craft Beer Holiday will be hosting twenty breweries this year, including Isekado, North Island, Shiga Kogen, and Fukuoka Craft. Various food vendors are on hand, and half-size glasses are available, so you can try out more beers. The location has returned to Osaka Castle.

Co-sponsored by the German Embassy, this is probably the best of the German-themed festivals on the yearly calendar, with a more German feel to it than the typical Oktoberfest event. There's plenty of tasty German food, beer and wine to sample, a live music stage, and booths selling a range of German products.