A fireworks festival in Itabashi on August 7th

I joined, for the first time, in a group which enjoys this event every year. Its members make an effort to hold a place for viewing the fireworks which takes place near the Arakawa river because a half million of people descend on the area on the day.

We waited for the sunset for two hours while drinking, eating and chatting. It was a perfect day for fireworks. We could see an orange summer summer sunset. At seven pm (the sunset at 6:45pm) the fireworks started to be let off and 11,000 ones lit up in the sky for two hours. The dynamism is the sounds of their explosions but I'm bit sad because you can't feel it from my photos.

I'm going to see another fireworks festival in a ballpark of a center Tokyo from parking lots of my friend's apartment next week. If you live in Tokyo you can enjoy this kind of festival a few times in  the summer.