Japan Times

July and August in Osaka are the months for lots and lots and lots of fireworks festivals.. The biggest festival (although not the biggest fireworks display) during this period is the Tenjin Matsuri, which is apparently over 1000 years old. The fireworks are ok, but nothing to really write home about (despite the fact that that is exactly what I'm doing now). The real highlight of the season is called the PL Hanabi (fireworks), which claims to launch 120,000 fireworks over the period of about an hour and a half. Its wicked. It would be much more wicked if there weren't about 10,000 buildings, banners, signs and fences blocking out much of the view. A lot of these look like they were specifically erected to prevent people from stopping in major streets to watch, which is a bit of a pain. Still, we managed to find a place where the stars aligned, and the buildings didn't to watch the show from.

 
 
Couple of the fireworks, complete with a sample of the banners that were put up to prevent people from seeing them..
 
Here's me getting down and standing at the Tenjin Matsuri

One of the parade of boats at the Tenjin

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