隅田川花火大会 SUMIDAGAWA FIREWORKS FESTIVAL

[tokyodisa]

Who: Everybody!
What: Tokyo Day Three: fireworks festival
When: Thursday, 18/July -- evening
Where: Hotel or Sumida
Rating: pretty

Tonight, in the sky, there are fireworks.

You can see them from the hotel window, but for a better look -- so suggests the helpful concierge at the desk -- you'll want to head to Sumida, where locals and tourists alike gather on the edge of the Sumida River.

[ Watch fireworks from the hotel | Watch fireworks from Sumida ]

[Technically the festival is supposed to happen on the last Saturday of July, but whatever! It's Paradisa. For more information on the festival please visit here, and you can watch YouTube videos here.]

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[ofhope]

That one probably has a special name, too.

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[heloise]

Perhaps I will return once I discover the name.

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[ofhope]

Oh, now it's like a mission.

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[heloise]

Do you trust that I can find it?

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[ofhope]

You're convincing enough.

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[heloise]

Then I will bring home a name or never come home at all.

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[ofhope]

Those are high stakes.

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[heloise]

Where would the triumph be, otherwise? Or the pleasure.

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[ofhope]

Does a hotel count as home, though? Maybe that's a loophole.

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[heloise]

Home is not a place.

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[ofhope]

It's where the heart is?

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[heloise]

Whose, though?

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[ofhope]

They never say.

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[heloise]

Ah, then we shall both wander until we know.

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[ofhope]

Good luck getting around in that dress.

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[heloise]

Have I been tricked now?

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[ofhope]

Only if you let yourself be.

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[heloise]

Only if there is some thrill to be had.

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[ofhope]

I don't know much about this place, I'll admit, but I think the hotels alone speak for this country. Who knows what you'll find out there.

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[heloise]

Our hotel seems rather dull. Or did you find secret passages in my absence?

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[ofhope]

There are other hotels, weird ones with themes.

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[heloise]

In the French or Japanese style?

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[ofhope]

French style?

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[heloise]

Crude, that is.

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[ofhope]

One of them was crude, but it was definitely Japanese.