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Yodogawa Fireworks Festival 2025
Jeannie GanFirework viewing, called hanabi in Japanese, at Yodogawa River is a real crowd pleaser. One of top ten ways to spend your sum...
<p>Overview of summer festivals in Japan.</p>
Firework viewing, called hanabi in Japanese, at Yodogawa River is a real crowd pleaser. One of top ten ways to spend your sum...
The Beppu Fireworks Festival is a must-see summer event. It is held annually on either the last weekend of July or first week...
It's all about the bells for the author at the Nebuta Matsuri, held in Aomori the first week of August. It's said that they b...
Be transported by the sounds and sights of Gion Matsuri, a Millennium old festival in the open air art gallery of Kyoto’s old...
A festival held in honor of the dragon god of the Tenryu River, in Hamakita in Japan's Shizuoka prefecture. The culmination o...
Morito no Hama's yearly summer beach festival and dance competition on the shores of Morito beach in Hayama, Kanagawa prefect...
Dokkoisho! The multiple meanings of this word are a reflection of the complex emotions going through the lantern bearer’s min...
The Tejikara Summer Fire Festival is an event held every second Sunday of August along the banks of the Nagara River in Gifu.
The fireworks were spectacular at the annual Miura Kaigan festival.
Beautiful, colorful and fun - a great way to enjoy one of Japan's most famous & historical bridges enjoying one of Japan's mo...
A look into a little known, yet immensely entertaining, hikiyama festival in the Hokuriku region of Japan.
![Miyajima Fireworks Festival [Discontinued] 2019](https://a2.cdn.japantravel.com/photo/6043-229352/360x240!/hiroshima-miyajima-fireworks-festival-229352.jpg "Miyajima Fireworks Festival [Discontinued] 2019")
Hiroshima's most famous fireworks display. 60 minutes of amazing, colorful bursts shot from the water in front of the huge re...
The Kutchan Jagamatsuri is a colorful summer festival held annually in early August.
The Kure Fireworks Festival takes place every August by the city port. Spectators here will enjoy an hour of pyrotechnics ove...
Minato Kobe Fireworks Festival offers beautiful fireworks without the crowds. Check out my favorite spots to watch and enjoy.
The fireworks display by the Ashida River in Fukuyama is the perfect location to bring the city's three-day summer festival t...
The Kishiwada Danjiri Matsuri is the largest, if not greatest, danjiri matsuri (float festival) in Japan. Celebrating 300 yea...
The Bon Odori Festival in Ebisu, Tokyo is a huge summertime gathering rich in tradition. With music, dancing, food, drinks, a...
Lantern covered floats roll their way through the old streets of Yatsuo, at the Hikiyama Festival.
Edogawa Fireworks Festival - a summer night filled with lights and laughter.
Four simultaneous firework displays lasting one hour at the Firework Festival at Lake Yamanaka, one of the Five Fuji Lakes in...
16,000 fireworks light up the sky over the Hirose River every August 5th evening. This is the kickoff for 3 days of Tanabata ...
The Sumidagawa Fireworks Festival around the Tokyo Skytree is one of Japan's major summer fireworks displays, held each year ...
Nagaoka Festival and Fireworks a tradition since 1946 to commemorate victims of war and earthquakes.
Fireworks Festivals or Hanabi-kai are some of the most spectacular festivals in Japan. Okazaki is one of those places which h...
The Tsuchiura Fireworks Competition is one of the top three fireworks displays in Japan. Come and witness the freshest new di...
Enjoy centuries old traditions, lively parades, mouth-watering street food, and contagious fun at one of Japan’s most popular...
The Kanto Matsuri is also known as the pole lantern festival. It is a Tanabata related celebration in Akita City held annuall...
Annually over 600,000 people assemble to watch one of the most popular firework festivals by the Arakawa river in Tokyo's Ada...
The Fukagawa Hachiman Matruri is one of the three biggest festivals held in Toyo. Nicknamed mizu-kake matsuri, literally wate...
ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL is Japan's largest EDM festival. The world's greatest DJ's unite and battle in Tokyo's Odaiba Island in ...
Every year on Marine's Day, about 40 omikoshi will leave from the shrines around the city of Chigasaki and bath into the ocea...
The biggest outdoor music festival in Japan, Fuji Rock Festival takes places in Naeba, Niigata prefecture each summer.