Huis Ten Bosch (ハウステンボス) will hold its 2026 year-end event, “Grand Finale Night -Music & Fireworks Countdown-“, over six days from Saturday, December 26 to Thursday, December 31. Last year the fireworks event ran for five days, December 26–30, and the New Year’s Eve countdown was a separate event. This year the park has rolled everything through New Year’s Eve into a single event, extending both its length and its scale. MetroEngines Research data on the 9 properties and 2,009 rooms within 3km of the park show that the median listed price (2 guests per room, tax included, average across all plans) for the four nights of December 27–30, which fall on Sunday through Wednesday, ranges from ¥71,300 to ¥81,200 — above the preceding Saturday (December 19, ¥64,000). This article walks through daily listed prices, room stock around the park and in front of Sasebo Station, and Sasebo City’s ADR, and examines the multi-night opportunity that the six-day format creates for hotels.

Room stock in this article covers lodging facilities with 10 or more rooms (excluding leisure hotels) within a 3,000m radius of Huis Ten Bosch Station. “Operating” means properties whose selling prices could be confirmed on major booking sites in the last three months (September–November 2026) (as of November 7, 2026, compiled by MetroEngines Research).

Room stock in this article covers lodging facilities with 10 or more rooms (excluding leisure hotels) within a 1,000m radius of Sasebo Station. “Operating” means properties whose selling prices could be confirmed on major booking sites in the last three months (September–November 2026) (as of November 7, 2026, compiled by MetroEngines Research).

Daily listed prices are each property’s average across all plans (2 guests per room, tax included) as observed on the survey date of November 7, 2026; the value for each area is the median of the property averages. Prices for future dates will change depending on how sales progress.

The Six-Day Lineup — Three Nights of Special Live Shows and 5,000 Fireworks on New Year’s Eve

First, the outline of the event. According to the announcement Huis Ten Bosch made on October 6, the event runs from Saturday, December 26 to Thursday, December 31, 2026. The first three nights feature special live shows by artists: Yoko Takahashi (高橋洋子) on the 26th, Shiritsu Ebisu Chugaku (私立恵比寿中学) on the 27th, and Suiyoubi no Campanella (水曜日のカンパネラ) on the 28th. From the 29th the program is listed as “Coming soon”, with either a special live show or a spectacle entertainment show set to film music planned. More artists are expected to be added, so the event is designed to give visitors a fresh reason to come with every announcement.

On the final day, New Year’s Eve, “Huis Ten Bosch Countdown 2026→2027” will launch 5,000 fireworks at the stroke of midnight. On this day only, the park stays open until 26:00 (2:00 a.m. on January 1, 2027), and a “Countdown Passport” allowing a stay of up to 16 hours has been on sale since October 9. Special fireworks viewing seats went on sale on October 16 and are listed on the official website at ¥2,000–¥24,000 per seat (pair seats and terrace seats are sold per table), with a separate admission ticket required. There are no paid viewing seats for the artist live shows, which can be watched with an admission ticket. Operational details such as show times and venues are to be announced later.

The differences from last year are also worth noting. At the end of 2025, the five days of December 26–30 were “Grand Finale Fireworks 2025”, while New Year’s Eve was held separately as the “Huis Ten Bosch Countdown Fireworks”. This year everything through New Year’s Eve falls under a single event name, and the official announcement describes it as “expanding the period and scale over six days”. From the lodging side, six consecutive nights of events with a different theme each night create a reason to stretch a year-end visit that often ended after one night into two or three nights.

Source: Compiled by the HotelBank Editorial Team from the Huis Ten Bosch official website and press release (October 6, 2026). Performers and program are subject to change or additions

Daily Listed Prices — Four Nights from Sunday to Wednesday Top the Preceding Saturday

So how are hotel prices lined up? Using MetroEngines Research data, we compiled daily listed prices (2 guests per room, tax included, average across all plans) for stays from December 5 to January 3 at the 9 properties and 2,009 rooms within a 3km radius of Huis Ten Bosch Station and at the 13 properties with confirmed prices within a 1km radius of Sasebo Station. The survey date is November 7, 2026, and each area’s value is the median of the property averages.

Around the park, the median for ordinary Thursdays was ¥42,400 for the 12/10 stay and ¥40,900 for the 12/17 stay, while Saturdays were ¥59,300 (12/12) and ¥64,000 (12/19). During the event period, by contrast, the 12/26 (Sat) stay was ¥70,400, the 27th (Sun) ¥71,300, the 28th (Mon) ¥72,600, the 29th (Tue) ¥81,200 and the 30th (Wed) ¥79,600 — all four nights from Sunday to Wednesday are above the preceding Saturday. The defining feature of this period is that on days of the week that would normally settle at around ¥40,000 from Sunday through Thursday, levels above the preceding Saturday line up for six consecutive nights.

For New Year’s Eve (12/31 stay), the median reached ¥133,300, 3.2 times an ordinary Thursday. However, many properties for this date were tallied using the most recently listed prices, so the level should be read as a reference value. In addition, this period also overlaps with demand from the year-end holidays themselves, so not all of the increase can be attributed to the event.

Within 1km of Sasebo Station, meanwhile, the median was ¥16,000 for the 12/26 stay, ¥14,800 for the 27th, ¥16,000 for the 28th and 29th, ¥17,600 for the 30th and ¥19,700 for the 31st — only a gradual change from ordinary Thursdays (¥14,100 for 12/10, ¥14,000 for 12/17). Both the price range and the price movement differ from the park area, showing that the two operate as separate markets even within the same city.

Source: Compiled by the HotelBank Editorial Team from MetroEngines Research (property median of listed prices, 2 guests per room, tax included, average across all plans; park area 3km N=9, Sasebo Station 1km N=12–13; survey date November 7, 2026)

Source: Compiled by the HotelBank Editorial Team from MetroEngines Research (listed prices, 2 guests per room, tax included; survey date November 7, 2026. The 12/31 stay includes the most recently listed prices)

Same-Weekday Comparison — 1.51x–1.93x Around the Park Sun–Wed, 1.07x–1.25x at the Station

To remove day-of-week differences, we compared each event-period night with “the average of the same weekday over the previous two weeks”. For Thursday, we avoided December 24 (Christmas Eve) and used December 10 and 17 as the baseline. Around the park, Saturday (12/26 stay) came in at 1.14x, close to a normal weekend, while Sunday was 1.51x, Monday 1.71x, Tuesday 1.93x and Wednesday 1.86x — the premium grows larger the more “weekday” the night is. Rather than the already-high Saturday rising further, the days that normally settle are lifted, evening out rates across the six nights.

Behind this is the overlap between the year-end holiday calendar and the event. In 2026, December 26 falls on a Saturday, so taking Monday the 28th off creates a nine-day break through January 3. Suiyoubi no Campanella’s live show is placed on that Monday night, and events continue on Tuesday and Wednesday, giving visitors a reason to stay on the weekdays in the first half of the break. The year-end calendar and booking dynamics are also covered in our article on the nine-day New Year 2026-27 holiday.

Within 1km of Sasebo Station, the 12/26–29 stays came in at 1.06x–1.14x, the 30th at 1.25x and the 31st at 1.40x. Listed prices in the station area remain close to normal-week levels, which suggests there is still room to add multi-night and stay proposals rather than chasing rate.

Source: Compiled by the HotelBank Editorial Team from MetroEngines Research (property median of listed prices indexed to the average of the same weekday over the previous two weeks = 1.0; Thursday baseline is 12/10 and 12/17; survey date November 7, 2026)

Room Stock — 9 Properties / 2,009 Rooms Around the Park and 13 Properties / 1,253 Rooms at Sasebo Station

Next, the size of the lodging base. Room stock within a 3km radius of Huis Ten Bosch Station is 9 properties and 2,009 rooms, all of them operating. By segment, resort hotels account for 5 properties and 1,202 rooms and deluxe hotels for 2 properties and 508 rooms, while large properties with 201 or more rooms number 4, with 1,235 rooms. Six properties with 1,532 rooms opened in the 1990s; the stock formed alongside the park’s 1992 opening still forms the core of the area today.

Of these, the five that Huis Ten Bosch presents on its official website as its “Official 5 Hotels” are Hotel Europe (ホテルヨーロッパ, 310 rooms), Hotel Amsterdam (ホテルアムステルダム, 198 rooms), Forest Villa (フォレストヴィラ, 99 rooms), Hotel Den Haag (ホテルデンハーグ, 228 rooms) and Hotel Rotterdam (ホテルロッテルダム, 200 rooms), for a total of 1,035 rooms. According to the official website, guests of the five hotels receive benefits such as a passport for the following day and Early Park-In entry before opening. For the countdown, the site also states that guests staying at one of the five hotels on 12/30 do not need to buy a separate admission ticket for 12/31 — a mechanism that already pairs well with multi-night stays.

The remaining 4 properties with 974 rooms are Hotel Nikko Huis Ten Bosch (ホテル日航ハウステンボス, 377 rooms), Hotel Okura JR Huis Ten Bosch (ホテルオークラJRハウステンボス, 320 rooms), The Paradise Garden Sasebo (ザ・パラダイスガーデン・サセボ, 182 rooms) and Hotel Lorelei (ホテルローレライ, 95 rooms), which support stays from outside the park. Note that Hotel Okura JR Huis Ten Bosch, in front of the station, is scheduled to open in October 2027 as Oriental Hotel JR Huis Ten Bosch; the background is covered in our earlier report.

The other lodging base is the area around Sasebo Station, about 10km away in a straight line. Within a 1km radius of the station, 16 properties with 1,339 rooms are listed, of which 13 properties with 1,253 rooms are operating. Of the operating stock, business hotels account for 9 properties and 783 rooms and city hotels for 3 properties and 430 rooms, so urban-type lodging dominates. On an ordinary Thursday (12/10 stay), the median listed price was ¥14,100 in the station area versus ¥42,400 around the park — a gap of roughly 3.0x. The difference in roles between resort-type lodging, where the stay itself is the purpose, and urban-type lodging, which serves as a base for transport and dining, shows up directly in the price range.

Source: Compiled by the HotelBank Editorial Team from MetroEngines Research (as of November 2026. Listed prices are 2 guests per room, tax included, average across all plans; estimated settled ADR is tax-excluded equivalent)

Source: Compiled by the HotelBank Editorial Team from MetroEngines Research (as of November 2026, N=9 properties / 2,009 rooms. The Official 5 Hotels designation is per the Huis Ten Bosch official website)

Source: Compiled by the HotelBank Editorial Team from MetroEngines Research (blue = Huis Ten Bosch Station 3km area, navy = Sasebo Station 1km area. Circle size reflects room count; dashed lines show each area’s radius)

Sasebo City ADR — ¥8,000 in December 2025, Latest October +8.0% YoY

Let us also look at the citywide level. According to MetroEngines Research data, Sasebo City’s estimated settled ADR in December 2025 was ¥8,000 (N=35), 1.9% below ¥8,100 (N=37) a year earlier — essentially flat. It was the second-highest month of 2025 after August, showing that the winter event season is one of the year’s peaks. In October 2026, the most recent finalized month, ADR was ¥8,300 (N=36), up 8.0% YoY.

For December 2026, the estimate based on listing levels at the survey date is ¥9,900 (N=35). However, because this is calculated on a different basis from finalized figures, we do not compare it with the prior year and present it only as an interim reading that may change as listings evolve.

The citywide median is close to the level of the urban hotels in front of the station, which are more numerous. Lining up property-level estimated settled ADR by area, the December 2025 median was ¥17,100 (N=6) around the park and ¥7,700 (N=12) within 1km of Sasebo Station — a gap of about 2.2x. Because estimated settled ADR covers five segments (business, city, resort, ryokan and capsule), the park-area figure is calculated from six properties, excluding deluxe hotels and cottages. In addition, Sasebo City’s listed price (all-plan average, tax included) in December 2025 was ¥20,700 (N=51), but it differs from estimated settled ADR in both the properties covered and the calculation method, so the difference between the two does not indicate the size of discounts.

Public statistics also confirm December’s position. According to the “2023 (Reiwa 5) Sasebo City Tourism Statistics” compiled by Sasebo City and the Sasebo Convention & Visitors Association, total tourist visits in 2023 were 4,935,725 and total overnight guests were 1,809,735. By month, December had 475,992 tourist visits, ranking third in the year after October (596,382) and August (499,744).

Source: Compiled by the HotelBank Editorial Team from MetroEngines Research (Sasebo City estimated settled ADR, tax-excluded equivalent, N=34–37 properties. November and December 2026 are estimates based on listing levels at the survey date)

What Hotels Can Do — Three Angles for Turning Six Days into Multi-Night Stays

Putting it together, the six-day format can be read as an opportunity to widen “one night at year-end” into “several nights at year-end”. The first angle is to promote the fact that the program changes every night as a reason for a longer stay. The live-show performers change daily over the first three nights, and the program for the 29th and 30th, as well as additional performers, is still to be announced. Updating sales messaging in step with each announcement and putting multi-night stays that “stay through the second night’s show”, or stays spanning 12/30 into New Year’s Eve, front and center looks effective.

The second angle is how hotels in front of Sasebo Station build their offer. Listed prices in the station area stay close to a normal week even during the event, and on an ordinary Thursday there is roughly a threefold gap in price range versus the park area. By leveraging the straight-line distance of about 10km and preparing plans with breakfast, multi-night stays or late check-in, these hotels should have more room to be chosen by visitors with a different budget from those staying around the park. Since the park stays open until 26:00 on New Year’s Eve, it is worth adding guidance that assumes guests will return late at night.

The third angle is when to watch booking progress. 45 days before the 12/26 stay is November 11, and 45 days before the 12/31 stay is November 16, so booking build-up becomes readable from mid-November. Current listed prices are only a starting point; a realistic approach is to review multi-night conditions and room allocation while watching how bookings move from mid-month onward. For day-by-day trends across the whole New Year period, see also our article on daily ADR for New Year 2026-27.

Summary

Huis Ten Bosch’s year-end event has been built as a six-day “Grand Finale Night” running through New Year’s Eve, anchored by three nights of live shows and 5,000 countdown fireworks. Among the 9 properties and 2,009 rooms within 3km of the park, the median listed price for 12/27–30 stays is ¥71,300–¥81,200, above the preceding Saturday, with the days that normally settle being lifted so that the six nights line up at a similar level. Within 1km of Sasebo Station, prices are ¥14,800–¥17,600, close to a normal week — two lodging bases with different roles side by side.

In other words, this year-end, the park has officially supplied a reason to stay multiple nights: “a different event every night”. It is a moment when hotels around the park can build on their strengths with multi-night proposals, and hotels in front of the station with how they structure the stay. The next points to watch are additional performer announcements and booking movement from mid-November onward.

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