w00kie's ramblings » hanabi http://w00kie.com Living the good life in Japan Thu, 17 May 2012 11:39:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Watching the fireworks from the roof http://w00kie.com/2007/08/19/watching-the-fireworks-from-the-roof/ http://w00kie.com/2007/08/19/watching-the-fireworks-from-the-roof/#comments Sat, 18 Aug 2007 16:42:33 +0000 w00kie http://www.w00kie.com/2007/08/19/watching-the-fireworks-from-the-roof/ Continue reading →]]> Last weekend I went to 熊谷, the bigger town close to where I live, to watch the city's 花火大会 from my friend's roof.

fireworks from the roof

Firework shows in Japan last very very long compared to anything I knew in France, over 2 hours. That's because in between every 2 minutes sets they make a 3 minutes break. Why, you ask? My theory is that it's all to encourage consumerism, so that you have time to get up and go buy a beer or some たこ焼き from the closest 屋台... What do you think?

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