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A fireworks display, one of the largest in Kyushu, where about 15,000 fireworks colors the night sky, with Sakurajima in the back. This time, which will be the 22nd time, it will be filled with colorful creative fireworks, as well as a special star mine and 2222 consecutive rounds of music fireworks, including Ōtama in the annual Nishakutama simultaneous launch finale. There are a limited number of paid seats where you can watch the powerful fireworks slowly, so early purchase is recommended. Image courtesy of Kagoshima Nishie Bay Summer Night Fireworks Display Executive Committee

The competition of "Tsuruzaki Odori", which boasts more than 460 years of history and tradition and has been selected for the national intangible folk cultural relics as a representative folk performing art, will be held in 2024 as the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Tsuruzaki Odori Preservation Society. Route 197 from the Tsurugasaki Station entrance intersection to the Naka-Tsurugasaki 2-chome intersection will become a pedestrian mall and a landing venue, and will be performed on a grand scale. The appearance of roughly 700 dancers dancing in flamboyant costumes along with the sound of side flutes and the sound of the komiko of the komyu is gorgeous, which attracts many spectators. Fireworks are set off after the dance ends, and Ohan flowers color the night sky in Tsurozaki.

On the top of a 30m pillar pine, a straw is tied to the mouth of a large snake, and a torch is thrown in by the eye.

It is an event reminiscent of Murakami's Furusato, Inashima's unique, and the brave water force. In the "Island Fire Festival", a formation show by a warrior, a water army drum, and a large torch kneading are performed, and a large barrel of fireworks is launched at the climax. In 2024, it will be held on Saturday, August 24, as the "Island Fire Festival" jointly with the "Fire Festival".

A festival to thank the success and the predecessors of the Fisheries Festival, which will be held in conjunction with the "Fire Festival" on Saturday, August 24, 2024 as the "Island Fire Festival".

Atago Shrine's summer festival, revered since ancient times as a god of fire shelter, has a tradition of more than 300 years, and the festival is also famous as a phantom one-night castle, with kagura on Saturday, 24.

The warrior procession, reminiscent of the formation of the Murakami Army, which was active during the Sengoku period, is courageous and a masterpiece; the climax has a fireworks display from the sea side.

In addition to the music-linked fireworks, Itami's specialty wide star mine "Golden Weeping Willow's Layering Blooms" at the grand finale is the summer of Kansai. There are also paid seats and special bleachers where you can enjoy the powerful fireworks that go up in front of you (return gifts for hometown donation to Itami City). Details are required by the official site of Itami City (paid bleachers will be sold from around July).

From seventeen o'clock, a legal service is held in the Kyuraku-do to enshrine Jizo Bodhisattva to pray for the disease-free disaster and healthy growth of children. After that, rapeseed oil is poured into a lantern plate in which a prayer is made in front of the stone Buddha group in the precinct, and the kerosene of the Igusa core is ignited, and the garnish is served. Closed on both days at 20:30 (reception until 20).

Gangran Fire is a fire festival representing Hokusetsu that has continued since 1644.