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In 2024, the summer festival will also open Bon dances and eateries. The highlight of the festival is the Ryogoku Fireworks Festival. About 8000 fireworks will color the summer night sky.

The traditional festival, which takes place every year on the 14th of August, on the occasion of the 19:30 fireworks as a signal, a summer night wind poem igniting the 10,000 torches of the Ogata Plain area.

Various events such as Mikoshi and Dance events "Yumefuruya", Bon Odori, Hirahara and Taiko Festival will make the city a full festival.

A festival in which the ghosts who have fallen into hell are pulled off and comforted by a leash, at least for one day alone. Children wear horns and horns, apply the soot of kamado to the whole body and face to transform into a black demon, and 40-50 people pull around a heitsuna with a diameter of 30cm and a length of 20m.

A kind of fire festival with a competition of throwing torches. The origin was during the Warring States period, when a shugan named Kongo-in of Gotanda was accidentally shot dead by his ally Tōya, and was performed to quell the spirit. The flame of the torches thrown up at the basket attached to the tip of the pillar of more than 20m, while pulling its tail in the night sky.

During the Edo period, the people of Tohara [Tonohara], Aikawa [Sogawa], Kawai [Kawaiwa], Kaizuka [Kotsumi], and Sakobara [Sobura] in Kishiwada-shi, the people of the former Gokasho, located on the summit of the Katsuragi, the stone treasure hall (the eight great dragon kings) it began to pray for rain and performed a drum dance. The dance and the child are dedicated. It starts at around 17 o'clock every year.

It is said that Kuroe's lacquermakers had a practice of going back to their parents' home in a new set of clogs during the Bon holidays, and that the city of clogs stood before the bung-in of Bon, which was the beginning of the night shop.

It starts from the opening on the 12th (Monday, holiday) and will be held on a grand scale for three days until the 14th (Wednesday).

During the Heian period, there was a year of cold damage with heavy snowfall in May, and the festival of "Five Gan Fertility and Fertility Prayers", which began with the dedication of the Five-Kon-kon and one-kon-kon from the Imperial Court of Time. Today, a line of five shrines, large drums, and Shinto koshi, led by the four shrines, fired a large torch from Hiedano Shrine to the forest of Gorei Shrine, signalled to the gods, and visited the three shrines in the shrine. It comes down to Hiedano Shrine. The four shrines will hold a prayer festival for the five grains of fertility. Ningyo-jōruri is dedicated on the smallest skewer doll in Japan, and heroic rituals such as gokōkō and taikō are unfolded on the five-piece shingun and the shingkō and taikō. Image courtesy of Kameoka City Tourism Association

Reportedly with a history of about 900 years, 108 torches known as "Suzumi" are arranged in a key shape of about 200m on the western slope of Mount Manto, and a fantastic fire festival where "Kagi" rises in the night sky.