Okazaki Castle Town Ieyasu Summer Festival Fireworks
岡崎城下家康公夏まつり花火大会
Okazaki Castle Town Ieyasu Summer Festival Fireworks is a fireworks festival held in Chubu. Date: Confirmed Aug 1 (Sat), 2026. Total shells: about 約1万発 (推定). Attendance: 約15万人 (推定). No. 78回
Event essentials
Headline stats
- Total Shells
- 約1万発 (推定)
- Duration
- 90 min
- Nights
- 1 night(s)
- Attendance
- 約15万人 (推定)
- Largest Shell
- 10-shaku shell (one-foot shell), viewable up close only from the Yahagi River bank
- Founding Year
- 1948 (the first tourist summer-festival fireworks display was held on 16 August 1948)
Signature Sequences
- 01Firing with Okazaki Castle as a backdrop
- 02Two festival boats, Tenno-maru and Suge-maru, float below Tonobashi Bridge
- 03Paid plank seating on the Otsu riverbank
- 04Close-up viewing of 10-shaku (one-foot) shells from the Yahagi bank
- 05Suge-festival goldfish fireworks, scatter shells and hand-tube fireworks
Venue & Access
- Time Window
- Firing runs 19:00-20:30 (scheduled); about 90 minutes of firing in total
- Venue
- Otegawa / Yahagi River riverbed (Okazaki Castle Town)
- Address
- Riverbank venues around Tonobashi Bridge on the Otsu River and Yahagibashi Bridge on the Yahagi River, Okazaki City, Aichi
- Venue Size
- Not confirmed in the sources checked (2026-10-20 pass)
- Venue Floor Type
- Flat grass and levee riverbank; plank seating on the Otsu riverbank, earth banks along the Yahagi
- Gates Open
- Not confirmed in the sources checked (2026-10-20 pass)
- Paid-Seat Holder Entry
- Not confirmed in the sources checked (2026-10-20 pass)
- Spectator Capacity
- Not confirmed in the sources checked (2026-10-20 pass)
- Launch Company
- Not published (Okazaki City Fireworks Festival Executive Committee)
- Production Company
- Not confirmed in the sources checked (2026-10-20 pass)
- Sponsor
- Okazaki City, with the Okazaki City Tourism Association as the public-facing information office
Access
From major cities
- From Tokyo
- About 1 h 45 min from Tokyo Station on the Tokaido Shinkansen to JR Nagoya, then the Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line to Okazaki-Koen-mae
- From Osaka
- About 1 h 40 min by Shinkansen to Nagoya Station, then Meitetsu to Okazaki-Koen-mae
- From Sendai
- About 3 hours to Nagoya Station via the Tohoku Shinkansen, then Meitetsu to Okazaki-Koen-mae
- Nearest Station
- About 10 min on foot from Meitetsu Higashi-Okazaki or Okazaki-Koen-mae Station, or 10 min from Aichi Loop Line Naka-Okazaki Station; Okazaki-Koen-mae is the closest station to the firing site
- Nearest Shinkansen
- JR Nagoya Station (Tokaido Shinkansen terminus); about 50 min by Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line to Okazaki-Koen-mae
- Local Transit
- Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line, the Aichi Loop Line and city buses; extra trains run on the Meitetsu lines and Okazaki-Koen-mae Station is served by every train for the whole evening
- Parking
- Essentially no on-site parking (the fireworks database marks the parking row as unavailable); the tourism association points to nearby paid lots or public transport
- Parking Reservation
- Not confirmed in the sources checked (2026-10-20 pass)
- Lodging Strategy
- Not confirmed in the sources checked (2026-10-20 pass)
- English Access
- Signage at the venue is Japanese only, and foreigners buy exactly the same paid viewing tickets as local visitors; multilingual guidance is thin
- Cash Required
- Only the paid viewing tickets are involved; whether cash or electronic payment is accepted was not confirmed, though nearby shops tend to take cash
- Best Arrival
- 17:00-18:00; the show starts at 19:00 and traffic controls close the roads around the venue, so arriving early is safest
- Peak Crowd
- 19:00-20:30, peaking just before firing starts and again before the finale; entering during the 18:00 hour is easier
Tickets
- Seat Type
- Plank seating, mat seating, corporate sponsor seating
- Price Range
- Not confirmed in the sources checked (2026-10-20 pass)
- Seat Count
- About 15,000 seats in total (2022 revival: riverbank, Sakurabashi Bridge and Okazaki Park multi-purpose plaza combined) seats
- Sellout History
- Not confirmed in the sources checked (2026-10-20 pass)
- Reservation
- Plank seating is allocated by an earlier lottery; mat seating replaced plank seating from 2022
- Day-Of Ticket
- Not confirmed in the sources checked (2026-10-20 pass)
Weather Policy
- Rain
- Held in rain; cancelled only in severe weather
- Decision Time
- Not confirmed in the sources checked (2026-10-20 pass)
- Postponement
- No postponement date: the 2026 notice offers cancellation only, while Wikipedia JA states that light rain does not stop the show and severe weather postpones it to the next day
- Wind Threshold
- Not confirmed in the sources checked (2026-10-20 pass)
- Typical Risks
- August thunderstorms, sudden wind and rising rivers; severe weather means cancellation or postponement
- Weather Cancellation History
- 2020 and 2021 were cancelled over the pandemic. Severe weather has historically pushed the show to the next day, but the 2026 notice offers cancellation only