I went to the coast near Hamamatsu with my friend and we watched on of these celebrations. Even the locals can no longer remember why they have this festival, but hey. Good fireworks!
It was really interesting to see how different firework displays are held in Japan. Instead of having an 'orchestration' of which fireworks explode, to ultimately end up with a big ass finale. They let off most of the big ones one at a time, so that everyone can fully appreciate the whole firework on it's own.
During the one-by-one-big-ones, they break into smaller 'orchestrated' displays which are often sponsored by a company or individual.
Sometimes you can have a ramen shop sponsoring a display, or even a rich guy wanting to buy a firework for his anniversary. They announce it on the speaker and let the crowd enjoy it haha. Good idea to offset the cost.
While the firework display overall was beautiful, we were a bit unlucky with low cloud cover. So nearly all the 'big ones' exploded behind clouds lol! The crowds cry of comedic dismay in unison was very funny! But I guess in Japan changing schedule isn't so easy due to bad weather so it went on ahead anyways.
Still a fun festival though and look forward to seeing if I can go to more of them.
