Each year, the City of Tokyo invites the Japan Federation of Musicians to organize a 10-week festival of concerts, opera, ballet, popular and traditional music -- the Tokyo Performing Arts Festival. It presents all the city's major performing companies, including concerts by each of the city's nine symphony orchestras.
The series, now in its 31st year, is unique in the world. Firstly, no other city in the world has nine major symphony orchestras. Secondly, in no other city will you find competing orchestras collaborating cooperatively on the same card.
The metropolitan government owns a first-class concert hall, the Tokyo Metropolitan Arts Space, which it presses into service for this series. The ticket price is kept accessible to the general public, a boon in this city, and the programs and featured artists are generally appealing to a broad audience.