Tonight I saw the hanabi (fireworks, or literally "fireflowers", or "flowerfire" I guess - "hana" can also mean "nose", so I joked with some of my students last week I was going to see "nosefire") on the Edogawa River in Funabashi. I managed to record some of it on my phone, which I then uploaded to YouTube - dodgy quality, but who's gonna complain? Nobody, that's who.
Prior to watching the fireworks I went shopping at Lalaport, where they have a whole store devoted to tea. Tea and fireworks make for a happy Ty.
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I was going to go to a huge fireworks show here in Osaka tonight, but when I checked the travel times after work, couldn't get there until it had almost finished. I was quite unhappy as there were to be 120000 fireworks in one hour.
The fireworks here sound much cooler than what we had back home.
On a related note, have you got some fireworks from a convenience store and set them off yet?
ooh no I haven't yet - keep meaning to buy some but am not really sure what I'm looking for. What store did you buy yours from?
pretty colours...
hi.
nice blog. i like patrick too! i was in patrick's gig in tokyo last month too.
Thanks kaori! Nice to meet you :)
What did you think of the Patrick concert? I have some photos I'll have to upload now.
You have a fantastic taste in music btw.
nice to meet you too :)
the concert was amazing, but too short!! hope i can see him live again sometime.
you have a cool taste in music too! seems pretty difficult to find someone who has the same taste in music as me here in japan.
Hey tybboy!
I've applied for my leave and booked my tickets. I'll be spending a night in Singapore, and arriving at 7am on Tuesday at Tokyo. Flying Singapore Airlines instead of Jetstar.
Hiya Anita Girl!
Ummm.. There are many Tuesdays. Which one in particular? I hope you don't mean this Tuesday, cause I was planning to go to the beach...
Kaori - tell me about it, faaarr too short. We arrived halfway through "Overture" as well. Bah, he better come back!
Sorry, in my excitement I assumed everyone knew whenabouts I was planning to come. I leave Brisbane at 2.45 on sunday the 2nd of december, and arrive in tokyo at 7am on tuesday the 4th of december. Even though it's only 10 hours away, Brisbane to Tokyo is a two day trip.
Then I leave at 7pm on Friday, 14th Dec, to go back to work on the monday!
great news! i just read patrick's blog on his myspace and he says he plans to tour in japan!! yaay!
Apparently it's O-Bon this week. This is the blog of a medsoc friend who's in Japan. He says that you missed out on a cool conversation.
Kaori - I read that!!! I'm so excited! I wish he'd announce tour dates now, so that I know when to plan my holidays around. Anita, if Patrick Wolf comes to Japan while you're here, I'm sorry but we're going :P
Great footage and cool blog!
Fireworks in Tokyo are the best. I just came across this tidbit of Japanese fireworks history. Must have been wild back in the day. http://www.japan-i.jp/news/d8jk7l000005azuv.html All the big events are just around the corner now.
Cheers,
Lynn
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