# Festivals and Events in Japan | Japan Voyage Travel

- [Omagari Fireworks](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/festivals/omagari-fireworks): Akita, Held on the last Saturday of August, with a daytime round as well as the night programme. The national fireworks competition, where Japan's pyrotechnicians compete for the Prime Minister's Award.
- [Katakai Fireworks](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/festivals/katakai-matsuri): Niigata, Held on the second Saturday of September and the Friday before it. A town of a few thousand people fires one of the largest firework shells made, on two nights in September.
- [Kishiwada Danjiri Matsuri](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/festivals/kishiwada-danjiri-matsuri): Osaka, The September run is held over the weekend before Respect for the Aged Day. A second, separate run takes place in October in other districts of the city. Wooden floats weighing several tonnes are pulled at a sprint and turned through ninety degrees without slowing, with a man dancing on the roof. Osaka's most dangerous festival, and it does not pretend otherwise.
- [Nada Kenka Matsuri](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/festivals/nada-kenka-matsuri): Hyogo, Held every year on 14 and 15 October. Three portable shrines slammed into one another at Matsubara Hachiman shrine in Himeji, deliberately and repeatedly.
- [Jidai Matsuri](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/festivals/jidai-matsuri): Kyoto, Held every year on 22 October. A costume procession running backwards through Japanese history, from the Meiji era to the eighth century, every 22 October.
- [Joso Kinugawa Fireworks](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/festivals/joso-kinugawa-fireworks): Ibaraki, Held on a Saturday in September. Competition shells from firms across Japan, fired over the Kinugawa an hour north of Tokyo.
- [Kounosu Fireworks](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/festivals/kounosu-fireworks): Saitama, Held on a Saturday in early October. About 20,000 shells over the Arakawa in October, run by the town's chamber of commerce youth division.

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