Shi Fireworks
花火大会
Shi Fireworks is a fireworks festival held in 東北 / Tohoku. Date: 1 August 2026 (Sat), with the eve festival on 31 July (Fri) and the pre-event on 25 and 26 July (Sat and Sun). Total shells: about 約12,000発（1万2000発）. Attendance: 約6万5000人. No. 71回
Event essentials
Headline stats
- Total Shells
- 約12,000発（1万2000発）
- Duration
- 120 min
- Nights
- 1 night(s)
- Attendance
- 約6万5000人
- Largest Shell
- 尺玉（最大10号）
- Founding Year
- 1956 - the run from the 67th edition in 2022 to the 71st in 2026 is unbroken, so the first edition falls in 1956
Signature Sequences
- 01Firing begins at 19:00 (the fireworks database gives a 19:00-21:00 schedule and about 120 minutes of firing).
- 02Beforehand a request to refrain from night-time navigation and a road closure (no vehicle entry to the port road, 16:30-22:00) are put in place.
- 03Firing ends at about 21:00.
- 04Creative fireworks synchronised to music (starmines and shakudama)
- 05A firing composition that uses the night view of Onahama Port as a giant screen
- 06About 12,000 shells fired over roughly 120 minutes
- 07A waterfront venue at Aqua Marine Park between Onahama Port Piers 1 and 2
- 08One summer festival cluster run together with the Onahama Kaiyu Festival pre-event and the Iwaki Odori Onahama Taikai eve festival
Venue & Access
- Time Window
- Fireworks 19:00 to about 21:00 (the fireworks database records about 120 minutes of firing)
- Venue
- Aqua Marine Park, between Onahama Port Piers 1 and 2, Onahama Tatsumi-cho, Iwaki, Fukushima
- Address
- 〒971-8101 福島県いわき市小名浜辰巳町地内 アクアマリンパーク
- Venue Size
- Not confirmed in the sources checked (2026-10-20 pass)
- Venue Floor Type
- Waterfront (the water between the piers and the pier decks; a waterfront firing staged against the night view of the port)
- Gates Open
- 16:00（午後4時）
- Paid-Seat Holder Entry
- 16:00（ゲートの開門）
- Spectator Capacity
- Not confirmed in the sources checked (2026-10-20 pass)
- Launch Company
- Kawasaki Kakou Hattori Hanabi Ten, Itoi Kakou, Sugano Hanabi Ten, Akagi Hanabi Ten, Nihonbashi Marutamaya, Chikuhoku Kakou and Horigome Hanabi Ten (seven companies, 2026)
- Production Company
- Not confirmed in the sources checked (2026-10-20 pass)
- Sponsor
- いわき花火大会実行委員会（〒971-8101 いわき市小名浜本町11-1、TEL 0246-53-5677）
Access
From major cities
- From Tokyo
- About 2 h 10 min from Tokyo Station on the JR Joban Line to Izumi Station, then about 15-20 min by bus or taxi (per the official site).
- From Osaka
- Not confirmed in the sources checked (2026-10-20 pass)
- From Sendai
- About 2 h 30 min from the Sendai-Miyagi IC on the Tohoku Expressway via the Ban-etsu and Joban Expressways to the Iwaki-Yumoto IC (per the official site).
- Nearest Station
- Izumi Station on the JR Joban Line - about 15 min by bus (or 15-20 min by taxi)
- Nearest Shinkansen
- Not confirmed in the sources checked (2026-10-20 pass)
- Local Transit
- A special bus service normally runs on the day and the Aeon Mall Iwaki Onahama bus stop is suspended (Iwaki City Tourism Association).The round-trip bus linking JR Joban Line Izumi Station with the venue is fully reserved through SevenTicket with no same-day tickets.
- Parking
- Free parking permits are available (the bay-front road observation-wheel car park and temporary car parks at the Onahama civic pool site, Onahama No. 2 Primary School and Onahama Higashi Primary School), plus the paid W3 car park (4,000 yen advance sale, no same-day ticket) and the paid car park at Aeon Mall Iwaki Onahama. No capacity figures are published.
- Parking Reservation
- The paid W3 car park is advance sale only with no same-day ticket, and the parking ticket cannot be bought on its own. The free parking permits are handed out at each car park from 12:30 and 13:00.
- Lodging Strategy
- Accommodation options sit around the venue at Aqua Marine Park and the Onahama waterfront, and staying over near Koriyama or Iwaki Station is also possible. No source-backed statement on this is available.
- English Access
- The Iwaki City Tourism Association event page offers a language switch (English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Thai), so the event information can be read in English.The paid viewing seat information is Japanese only, though the notices on the official site are provided as both images and text.
- Cash Required
- Not confirmed in the sources checked (2026-10-20 pass)
- Best Arrival
- Aim to arrive between 15:30 and 16:00. The gate opens at 16:00 and the port road closure starts at 16:30, so arriving later runs into the confusion at the car parks and the bus boarding point.Parking consists of the advance-sale-only paid W3 car park and four free sites, whose permits are handed out from 12:30 and 13:00.
- Peak Crowd
- From the 16:00 gate opening to the end of firing at about 21:00. The road closure runs 16:30-22:00 and vehicle entry to the port road is restricted throughout.
Tickets
- Seat Type
- Chair seats (S and A), free seating (B), garden table seats (G and the pair seat GP)
- Price Range
- 3,500円〜40,000円（当日券は4,000円〜40,000円）
- Seat Count
- Not confirmed in the sources checked (2026-10-20 pass) seats
- Sellout History
- Not confirmed in the sources checked (2026-10-20 pass)
- Reservation
- Paid seats are sold through SevenTicket only with no same-day sales. The round-trip bus from Izumi Station is fully reserved and no same-day tickets are issued.
- Day-Of Ticket
- 2026年5月31日（日）10:00〜7月29日（水）23:29（セブンチケット）
Weather Policy
- Rain
- Held in rain. The gate opens at 16:00 as planned regardless of rain.
- Decision Time
- The 2026 paid seats went on sale through SevenTicket from 31 May (Sun) 10:00 until 29 July (Wed) 23:29.,The round-trip bus from Izumi Station was on sale only from 1 June to 17 July.,Because the show runs in rain and is cancelled rather than postponed in bad weather, checking the status before setting off is worthwhile.
- Postponement
- Cancelled rather than postponed in stormy weather. The show is cancelled if wind reaches 10 m/s, rain 30 mm/h, an earthquake of seismic intensity 5- or greater occurs in Iwaki, a tsunami advisory, warning or major warning or a thunderstorm warning is issued, or the organiser judges it dangerous. Tickets are not refunded if the show is cancelled.
- Wind Threshold
- 風速10m以上
- Typical Risks
- The window from late July to the first days of August is exposed to typhoons, thunderstorms and high wind.,The cancellation thresholds are wind over 10 m/s or rain over 30 mm/h.,On the Iwaki coastal area a tsunami advisory, warning or major warning, or a thunderstorm warning, also triggers cancellation.
- Weather Cancellation History
- The 2022 edition carried the theme "Reborn - the day of revival", making the recovery in scale explicit.,The past editions confirmable in this pass start at 2022; the 2020 and 2021 editions could not be confirmed from those two sources.,The official site rules "held in rain" and "cancelled, not postponed, in stormy weather", so there is no reserve day.