And if you are actually planning to travel, that's even better! You can use Webcamtaxi as your own personal worldwide destination guide. Thanks to the weather cams, we'll give you the live weather and temperature, a forecast for the next few days and the annual climate for that specific destination. We add new webcams to our world listing on a daily basis. So keep checking our website to see the latest cams.Īs part of our extensive new feature set, live rolling multi-camera streams of your favourite places, beaches, wildlife, airports spotting, and bird feeder cams are now available in a single continuous webcam stream, check it out.A fireworks festival to be enjoyed with the night skyline The Tokyo Bay Grand Fireworks Festival is one of Tokyo’s premiere fireworks events which shares its great popularity with the Sumida River Fireworks Festival and the Jingu-Gaien Fireworks Festival. Annually, more than 600,000 tourists come to the lively event. The scene of 12,000 fireworks at the bay where you can see Rainbow Bridge with the beautiful night view of Odaiba in the background is incredible. Among these, the 10 explosions of the largest-grade shells of 5-shakudama and the 100 explosions of shakudama shells are truly spectacular. These are dynamic fireworks of which the 100 shakudama shells reach an arrival altitude of 330m while the 5-shakudama shells hit 400m, with the possibility that they could even hit as high as the observation deck of Tokyo Sky Tree. The fireworks are launched from either Harumi Wharf or offshore and light up the entirety of Tokyo Bay in vivid colors. The dynamic fireworks can be fully enjoyed as they go up nearby from Harumi Wharf Park and the surrounding venues, but an admission ticket is essential. If you would like to view the fireworks at a venue, application for an admission ticket at the homepage or a purchase of a sponsored letter of invitation is necessary. Other areas where you can view the fireworks aside from the official venuesĮven if you can’t see the festival from the venues, it’s relatively possible to still see the fireworks over Tokyo Bay from a wide area. There are sites such as Shiokaze Park in Shinagawa Ward, Ariake Bridge, Takeshiba Pier Park and Shinagawa Pier Park. You can also enjoy a fine view from areas in Odaiba Ward such as Lalaport Toyosu.

Nowadays, many wards all over Japan host their own summer hanabi festival.The fireworks can also be seen from Tokyo Tower, Tokyo Sky Tree and Roppongi Hills, although depending on the site, it will be important to secure a place beforehand.

This became an annual summer event known as the Sumida River Firework Festival, which is held each summer to this day. The first public firework display dates back to 1733 when fireworks were launched around the Sumida River to honor the souls of the one million people who had died the previous year due to extreme poverty as well as provide some entertainment to the general public. The story most experts agree on to be true is that Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder of the shogunate that ruled Japan between 16, took a liking to them after he received them as a present by a British representative of King James I and a Chinese merchant in August 1613.Īs fireworks became more popular, the lords of Edo, today's Tokyo, enjoyed gathering around the Sumida River to enjoy the fresh breeze near the river while watching them. There are various theories and stories surrounding how and why fireworks, or hanabi, became popular in Japan.

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