In Portugal, events were carried out with the participation of a great number of people, mainly in the capital city of Lisbon but also in various other cities, such as the country’s second city Porto, the coastal resort area Cascais, the World Heritage Site of Sintra, and Vila do Conde in the north.

The Hachioji Kuruma Ningyo Puppet Theater from Japan held a workshop after its performance, allowing many people to experience Japanese traditional arts. At the "Discover Origami" exhibition given by Joaquim Manuel Silva da Cunha Tondela, an expert specializing in geometric-style origami, and the Ikebana exhibition given by Ikebana Internacional, an Ikebana club, people of Portugal demonstrated their wonderful works of Japanese culture. The performance of "Forgotten Boys," an opera about the Tensho Mission in which four boys were dispatched as envoys to Rome by some Christian lords of Kyushu, was a production put on with the collaboration of a Japanese soloist and the local Setubal choir. In a Japanese cultural demonstration, "A trip to the Sakura World," Japan enthusiasts performed tea ceremony, the koto and showed their kimono-fitting skills in front of people from all walks of life—old, young, male, and female. Children sitting in the front row watched with delight and enthusiastically applauded the kimono fashion show in which some of the audience also took part. Children from the city of Sintra, a World Heritage Site, took part in homestays in Sintra’s sister city Omura City in Nagasaki Prefecture where they experienced the Japanese way of life, while Omura City dispatched the Omura City Hall delegation to Sintra.

In addition, a great number of people were able to experience Japanese culture through the events which were held, and which introduced a wide variety of aspects of Japanese culture from ancient to modern, including the Tsugaru-Shamisen Performance by Hiromitsu Agatsuma, Exhibition of Japanese Pottery, NHK Symphony Orchestra Europe Tour, Kabuki for Everyone—EU tour '05, The Dance—The story of Heike Monogatari--a performance of noh, flamenco, and Satsuma biwa--and the Japanese Film Festival.