Uji river fireworks 宇治川花火
August 10
The city of Genji Monogatari offers a nice fireworks display (August 10) on the banks of the Ujigawa, more intimate and convivial than the major events of the genre.
Famous for the Byôdô-in Buddhist temple, known to the Japanese for its 10 yen coins, the charming town of Uji (ten kilometers south of central Kyoto ) hosts one of the most beautiful events of its kind.
More than seven thousand rockets set an inky sky ablaze in a prodigious flood of colors. The fireworks are fired over the Ujigawa, the river that crosses the city and rises at the famous Lake Biwa.
An important detail: it is to Uji that Shikibu Murasaki wrote the Genji Monogatari. The hanabi of August 10 pays homage to this work, the most famous in Japanese literature, in a variety of colors inspired by the Heian period (794-1185).
Address, timetable & access
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Address
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Timetable
By train: 30 min from JR Kyoto station (JR Nara line, get off at Uji) / 40 min from Keihan Sanjo or Keihan Shijo station in Kyoto (Keihan-Uji line; change at Chushojima). -
Price
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Access
7:45 pm - 8:45 pm (postponed to August 13 in case of rain) -
Website
http://www.ujihanabi.jp/index.html
