During the two-day event, there are many folk games and sporting activities such as stick pushing competition, sack races, bowls, amateur boat race, rope jumping, as well as a display of artistic pictures, Origami paper wrapping, Kimono and Yukata costume performances, Vietnamese ao dai show; selection of Miss Kimono and a charitable music show for tsunami and earthquake victims in Japan. The event will be attended by skillful artisans from traditional craft villages of pottery making, mattress weaving, Kim Bong carpentry and lanterns. Japanese artists will make traditional cakes, compose Haiku poems and wrap Furoshiki fabric. 

Japanese Haiku style of poetry, the shortest style of 17 syllables, will be introduced in Hoi An for the first time through the Haiku poem composing festival and there is also a Vietnamese calligraphy performance.