Kobe Hanabi (Fireworks) 2010
It’s 7th of August again and it is time for the annual Kobe Hanabi (Fireworks) event. (Just in case you do not know Hanabi (花火) means flowers (花) of fire ( 火) and the Japanese people do mean it when they prepare fireworks).
The observation point was the same as the previous year – HAT Kobe marine promenade:
The main difference this time was that we climbed high on the stairs of Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art so we had a nice vintage point toward Kobe Harbor Land – the main source of the fireworks. Needless to say we were completely surrounded by people (you can hear their voices in the background of the videos). It is interesting also that this time the fireworks continued for almost 40 minutes without any big interruptions – a really worthful to see event if you are around Kobe on 7th of August.
So let’s not lose time any more but jump right into the middle of the Hanabi action:
I took and a few shots with my camera but keep in mind that the main event was several kilometers from us and I had to use a really big zoom. Nevertheless some of the pictures are quite interesting. This is my favorite – it looks like battleship in its final hours (actually it is one of the Sannomiya storehouses):
Here are a few more “classical” photos from the fireworks:
After the end of the official city fireworks we moved (together with friends) to the nearby park and the hanabi continued for another almost 2 hours. Here is a small selection of our hanabi materials (and these were by far not the most powerful):
I think this night the inhabitants of HAT Kobe must have been very happy that the marine promenade park is well isolated from the rest of the complex by a chain of big office buildings :)
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