November 22, 2016

(local time)

Afternoon

Departed Madrid Barajas International Airport aboard a government plane.

November 23, 2016

(Japan time)

15:05

Arrived at Haneda Airport.

15:40

Arrived at his private residence in Tomigaya.

18:46

Signed the official register at the Imperial Palace to announce his return to Japan. Thereafter, attended the Niiname-sai at the Shinkaden. [In this ceremony, His Majesty the Emperor offers the new rice crop as thanks to the ancestral and other gods.]

20:46

Arrived at his private residence.