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.]

Comments

[whichwayyoulean]

[Sadly, Japan is fresh out of green eggs and ham, so at least most of the food here is rather tame by anyone else's standards. But gosh there sure are a lot of marshmallows there, and Once smiles at Blues' choice]

Those are called marshmallows. They're the best.

[whistles_the_blues]

[It's kind of gross at first because Blues doesn't really know how to chew, much less chew with his mouth closed, but he gets it eventually. Unfortunately you do get some talking with his mouth full at the same time.]

Ish ahlruhghm.

[Oh, now he'll swallow.]

They're alright.

[And yet he's reaching for another one, before he tries anything else.]

[whichwayyoulean]

Alright? [Them's fighting words]

You kidding me? They are the food of Gods.

[whistles_the_blues]

[Fight him.]

Give me a chance to compare it to something else.

[Okay, what the heck is this thing? A rice ball. He'll give that a try. ...Then he'll grab another marshmallow after that. What have you done to him Once?]

[whichwayyoulean]

[HE HAS NO REGRETS]

Okay, so what do you think of it now?

[whistles_the_blues]

They're better than the other thing.

[whichwayyoulean]

You'll be saying that a lot.

[whistles_the_blues]

I'm starting to agree with you, a little.