Festival de Frue — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

31 Oct – 1 Nov 2026 (2 days)

Location

Festival de Frue Site, Kakegawa, Japan

Sound

Electronic · World · Experimental

Tickets

€12 – €101 · 5 tiers tracked

Line-up announced

7 artists so far

The story

Festival de Frue is a music festival that takes place in Kakegawa, Japan, over two days from October 31 to November 1, 2026. The festival is hosted at the Sainosato Tsumagoi Resort. It features a diverse lineup of artists, focusing on a blend of musical styles, and includes headliners such as The Master Musicians of Jajouka, Acid Pauli, and Alabaster DePlume.

Festival de Frue is a 2-day electronic, world, experimental festival at Festival de Frue Site in Kakegawa, Japan. The October 2026 edition runs 31 Oct – 1 Nov 2026.

Announced so far: Acid Pauli, Alabaster DePlume, The Master Musicians of Jajouka, Juana Molina, Kiko Dinucci, Kuo and Sylvan Esso. Expect stages split between Electronic, World and Experimental. The line-up is spread across the 2 festival days, so a full-weekend ticket is the only way to catch every name.

Everything happens at Festival de Frue Site, in Kakegawa. Kakegawa is the base for the trip: it is where the affordable beds, the late trains and the after-parties are, and where prices climb fastest as the dates approach.

Festival de Frue keeps the same calendar slot each year: October 2026 for this edition, opening on a Saturday and closing on a Sunday. It falls in autumn, after the summer circuit closes, when flights and rooms come back down in price. That slot matters for the budget — flights and rooms in Kakegawa are priced for the festival weekend, not the week around it, so shifting your arrival by a day often saves more than any ticket tier does.

• Venue: Sainosato Tsumagoi Resort
• Dates: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2026
• Headliners include The Master Musicians of Jajouka, Acid Pauli, Alabaster DePlume

What the trip costs from Paris

Door to door from Paris, a trip to Festival de Frue works out at roughly €1,257 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a higher-budget weekend, mostly because of the travel leg.

The ticket is only 1% of that: the rest is getting there and sleeping somewhere, which is exactly the part most ticket sites leave out.

Cheapest travel we price is air · 17h 1m each way, at €1,177 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Festival de Frue are sold in waves and the cheapest wave is gone long before the line-up is complete.
2. 2Then price the travel from Paris — Cinderella compares train, bus, car and flight for the same dates, and the cheapest option is not always the obvious one.
3. 3Reserve 3 nights rather than 2: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
4. 4Follow Festival de Frue on Cinderella to be emailed when a ticket price drops or a new tier opens.

Line-up, day by day

• Day 1 — Saturday 31 October

  Acid Pauli, The Master Musicians of Jajouka, Kiko Dinucci, Sylvan Esso

• Day 2 — Sunday 1 November

  Alabaster DePlume, Juana Molina, Kuo

Full line-up

Ordered as the poster reads it — headliners first, then most booked to least. Each name opens that artist's festival dates.

Past editions

Dates are the event's recurring calendar slot, so treat them as approximate — the organiser keeps the official archive.

• 2025

  31 Oct – 1 Nov 2025 (approx.)

  Regulars: Acid Pauli, Alabaster DePlume, The Master Musicians of Jajouka

• 2024

  31 Oct – 1 Nov 2024 (approx.)

  Regulars: Alabaster DePlume, The Master Musicians of Jajouka, Juana Molina

• 2023

  31 Oct – 1 Nov 2023 (approx.)

  Regulars: The Master Musicians of Jajouka, Juana Molina, Kiko Dinucci

Travel tips from Paris

• The site itself is Festival de Frue Site, in Kakegawa.
• Book a bed in Kakegawa early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.

• air17h 1m · €1,177