Best Fireworks in Kyoto 2025
Summer Fireworks Display in Kyoto
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Fireworks (Hanabi) are one of the traditional summer events in Japan, and fireworks festivals take place throughout Japan around July and August. A lively festival that features various fun activities besides the colorful fireworks display in the sky. The festival contains entertainment, traditional and cultural celebrations of summer, and plenty of shops and food stalls.
In Kyoto, the fireworks festival is unique and very traditional, as Kyoto is rich in ancient history with many famous temples. The festival offers a memorable fireworks experience as it shows the natural beauty of Kyoto in addition to the thousands of colorful fireworks displays.
In this article, check out the fireworks festival in Kyoto.
1. Ayabe Minazuki Festival
The Ayabe Minazuki Festival is one of the popular summer festival events in Kyoto. It features various traditional celebrations of summer, such as a colorful fireworks display with more than a thousand shots, and the floating lantern on the river, as one of the traditional events. The festival offers lively entertainment, ritual, parade, cultural and traditional Japanese summer celebration.
Event Period: July 26, 2025
Location: Kawaitocho areas, Yura River area
Website: https://ayabeminatsuki.org/
2. Minato Maizuru Chatta Fireworks Festival
The Minato Maizuru Chatta Fireworks Festival is one of the summer fireworks festivals in Kyoto, held in Maizuru Nishi Port. A waterfront venue that gives a magical effect of fireworks over the beautiful sea, with over 4,000 fireworks on display to be launched. The festival also offers activities related to summer and plenty of shops and food stalls to enjoy.
Event Period: July 27, 2025
Location: Maizuru West Port, Maizuru City, Kyoto, Onobe Green Space
Website:https://www.maizuru.or.jp/
3. Kyoto Hozugawa Fireworks Festival
The Kyoto Hozugawa Fireworks Festival is one of the popular summer events in the Kansai region. Offers an extremely impressive fireworks display with over 13,000 shots to be launched, the largest fireworks display in Kansai history. In addition to the fireworks, the festival offers a drone light show, entertainment, and music along with shops and food stalls.
Event Period: August 11, 2025
Location: Hozu Ohashi Bridge, Hozucho Kameoka City, Kyoto
Website:https://www.kameoka-hanabi.com/
4. Fukuchiyama Hanabi 2025
The Fukuchiyama Fireworks Festival is one of Kyoto’s summer events that features a lively and colorful fireworks display with approximately 4,000 shots to be launched for a 30-minute show. The festival offers a dramatic view of the river with the beautiful fireworks; in addition, many shops and food stalls are available in the area.
Event Period: August 11, 2025
Location: Yura River (Otonase Bridge)
Website:https://www.fukuchiyama-hanabi.com/
5. Miyazu Lantern Floating Fireworks Festival
The Miyazu Lantern Floating Fireworks Festival is one of the summer celebrations in Kyoto that features a floating lantern and fireworks display with more than a thousand shots to be launched. In addition to the lantern and fireworks, the Bon Dance Festival will be held after the fireworks. The festival offers traditional and cultural celebrations such as rituals and ceremonies.
Event Period: August 16, 2025
Location: Shimazaki Park
Website:https://miyazu-cci.or.jp/hanabi
6. Kyotamba Fireworks Festival 2025
The Kyotamba Fireworks Festival is one of the summer events in Northern Kyoto, offering a lively fireworks display with approximately 2000 shots to be launched. Along with plenty of shops and food stalls in the area, in addition to the fireworks event, the visitors can enjoy the activities around the area.
Event Period: August 5, 2025
Location: Kyotanba Town, Funai District/ Suchigawa Waterfront Park
Website: https://hanabi.walkerplus.com/detail/ar0726e00488/
For more information about things to do in Kyoto and Japan in summer, please check out following articles, too!
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Greetings to all mommies I am a supermom from Philippines. Previously, I worked and lived in Dubai for seven years, until 2015 the year I moved in Japan. Currently, I am happily settled here with my Japanese husband and our 7 months old baby. I could only describe my almost 6 years of living here as a roller coaster ride more so, after I gave birth to my son. Japan had changed me in ways unimaginable. It has influence my lifestyle, my perceptions and beliefs. I was able to witness firsthand the pros and cons of living in the country. From their language, culture and ethnicity, the people, place and in work. Those years were enough to give me quite personal and memorable experiences which I would be more than delighted to share with you.
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