Fireworks and summer festivals are arguably the best part of summertime in Japan, with days spent wearing yukata and jinbei traditional clothing while munching street food and nights spent outside watching literally hours of explosions and enjoying the atmosphere of the festival, and the crowds. \u00a0Summer festivals are a rare chance for people to relax and unwind, but here in Tokyo as always, are usually jam-packed with throngs of families looking for some mid-summer’s enjoyment as well.<\/p>\n
Points to note:<\/b><\/p>\n Sumida River Fireworks<\/b><\/p>\n One of the oldest fireworks festivals in Japan, the Sumida River Hanabi goes back to the 18th Century. It is held on the last Saturday in July along the Sumida River,\u00a0which flows through eastern\u00a0Tokyo into Tokyo Bay. \u00a0The show can be watched from many points around the Asakusa\/Sky Tree area (including on live TV!) but be aware the neighborhoods are dense and buildings will block your view of the sky in all but the best areas. Also note that the areas get REALLY crowded with the increased amount of tourists, and the police have started moving crowds across the bridges and side streets in timed groupings.<\/p>\n Edogawa Fireworks Festival<\/b><\/p>\n Like other festivals on this list, the Edogawa Fireworks Festival is a long held Tokyo tradition. 2024 will be the 49th annual festival, and it will feature a lineup of about 14,000 fireworks.<\/p>\n Itabashi\/Todabashi Fireworks Festival<\/b><\/p>\n On the same exact day as the Edogawa festival, both Itabashi Ward and Toda City will have theirs on the banks of the Arakawa. The joint event will feature 12,000 fireworks going off from both sides of the river.<\/p>\n Jingu Gaien Hanabi<\/b><\/p>\n Jingu Gaien Hanabi is notable for a number of things,\u00a0but its central location and visibility from a number of neighborhoods is probably the most relevant here. The exact timing has not been announced yet so keep an eye on the website.<\/p>\n Setagaya Tamagawa Hanabi<\/b><\/p>\n Taking place in the Futako-Tamagawa area located just southwest of Shibuya in Setagaya-ku at the Tama River border with Kawasaki, Kanagawa. Dominated by a large collection of shopping plazas including the new Tokyu Rise mall and office complex, the riverside location also offers a long recreational space on both banks. This also means the fireworks can be seen from many different vantage points. Also note, the date has moved up 2 months from August to October now, probably due to the huge thunderstorms that totally canceled the 2017 edition.<\/p>\n More Information<\/b><\/p>\n You could also try and secure a spot to view the fireworks from the water via tour boat.<\/p>\n Photo by Kakidai (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>], via Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/p>\n switchstyle<\/a>, CC BY 2.0<\/a>, via Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fireworks and summer festivals are arguably the best part of summertime in Japan, with days spent wearing yukata and jinbei traditional clothing while munching street food and nights spent outside watching literally hours of explosions and enjoying the atmosphere of the festival, and the crowds. \u00a0Summer festivals are a rare chance for people to relax […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":6208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,162,68,37],"tags":[69,107,77,47,45],"class_list":["post-6207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-family-friendly","category-festivals","category-tokyo-2","tag-event","tag-family-fun","tag-may","tag-tokyo-city-2","tag-tokyo-metropolis-2"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49607,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6207\/revisions\/49607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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