Here comes....Hanabi!
Natsu - summer - is well and truly here...
...and that means just one thing:
Fire Flowers! (Or Hanabi)
Tomorrow night is the annual Sumida-gawa Hanabi Taikai (The Sumida River Fireworks Display). About 20 000 fireworks will explode in a spectacular fashion over the Sumida River...and a couple of hundred thousand spectactors will be celebrating on the riverbank. Most of them will be wearing yukatas and 99.98% will be drinking beer and chowing down on excellent festival food like takoyaki and yakitori...I can hardly wait!
So, if you are in Tokyo...head on down to the Asakusa area by 7:10pm, and be ready to be gobsmacked...
(Photo taken by me at one of last summer's hanabi taikai)
...and that means just one thing:
Fire Flowers! (Or Hanabi)
Tomorrow night is the annual Sumida-gawa Hanabi Taikai (The Sumida River Fireworks Display). About 20 000 fireworks will explode in a spectacular fashion over the Sumida River...and a couple of hundred thousand spectactors will be celebrating on the riverbank. Most of them will be wearing yukatas and 99.98% will be drinking beer and chowing down on excellent festival food like takoyaki and yakitori...I can hardly wait!
So, if you are in Tokyo...head on down to the Asakusa area by 7:10pm, and be ready to be gobsmacked...
(Photo taken by me at one of last summer's hanabi taikai)
Labels: Asakusa, fireworks, hanabi, Sumidagawa Hanabi Taikai, summer, Tokyo
posted by verniciousknids @ 11:49 pm
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