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Sun, 08 Aug 2004

花火-Hanabi, the flower fire

Dozens of young ladies dressed in yukata yesterday couldn't be wrong.
After checking quickly in a brochure available at the metro station, there were indeed some fireworks in Gaienmae yesterday night.

It is indeed the big season for fireworkds and Japanese just love them.
If you're good enough, I think you can manage to see one per week. If you don't want to miss any, make sure you check this page, which gives a lot of useful information about fireworks in Japan.

We usually don't go to fireworks because of the crowd: it is just impossible to find your way to a nice spot and instead, you are most likely to be standing in the middle of hundreds of other people, willing to watch the show in spite of the heat and the sweaty atmosphere.

However, this one was so close to our place that we couldn't miss it, even if we wanted to: the sound of the fireworks was propagating throughout all the neighborhood and the lights were flashing the walls of the buildings around in red and green.

We finally ended up finding quite a good spot, in the middle of the street, to watch the fireworks through the electric cables.
Obviously, we were not as lucky as those people in the picture, who were having dinner on the roof, but that was quite alright at that time.

It is only when we thought it was over that we decided to walk around and found an even better spot, with a nice and clear view.
One of the reasons it was not crowded is probably that you had a nice view not only on the fireworks, but also on the graveyard below, but that was not what was going to stop a gaijin that I am...

Unfortunately, I didn't have time to setup my camera before the fireworks would actually end, that's why the pictures are a bit blurry...

I'll make sure I remember that for the next fireworks ... next year.