Saturday, August 17, 2013

Fireworks at Miyajima (宮島煙火大會)

Having been here (Hiroshima) for more than 4 years, this is the first time I went to Miyajima for Fireworks festival. Most of my friends who went there before said it's to crowded and might not be able to catch the last train to go home etc.
This year I decided to go, at least one time.
So many cameramen already standby in the afternoon, though the fireworks started at night.
We were able to reserve a place in front of the shrine, yay.
It was a very hot and humid day, people were soaking their legs into the water.
The sky was getting dark.
Start of the fireworks display
The fireworks display is divided into 7 scenes, more than 5300 fireworks were set up on the sea. The Itsukushima shrine looks splendid under the spectacular fireworks.
It's too beautiful, but I couldn't catch some nice photos of the fireworks.
you can refer to these blog, the photos taken were marvellous!Miyajima Fireworks Display
 I found a video from youtube, they did a very good job in recording the gist of the fireworks festival. I was amazed by the fireworks display from 03.25 and the finale from 06:53.
Okay, the nightmare started right after the fireworks. There were about 30,0000 people rushing to take the ferry ride back to the train station.
After a long queue, we've been able to get on the JR ferry, it was full of the people.
 Still need to queue in front of the train station.
The fireworks ended at 21:00, we reached home around 24:00. It took us 3 hours to go home, anyway it's a wonderful night.



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