Golden Week (ゴールデンウィーク, Gōruden Wīku^?), often abbreviated to simply GW and also known as Ōgon shūkan (黄金週間^?, "Golden Week") or Ōgata renkyū (大型連休^?, "Large consecutive holiday") is a Japanese term applied to the period containing the following public holidays:

†: "kokumin no kyūjitsu" or "citizen's holiday" is a generic term for any official holiday. May 4 was until 2007 an unnamed but official holiday because of a rule that converts any day between two holidays into a new holiday.

Note that May Day (on May 1) is not a public holiday. Instead, Japan has Labour Thanksgiving Day, a holiday with a similar purpose. When a public holiday lands on a Sunday, the next day that is not already a holiday becomes a holiday for that year.