Toyohashi Fireworks Festival, Toyokawa Inari, & Peach Picking Tour

Toyohashi Fireworks Festival The Toyohashi Fireworks Festival originated from the Mikawa Yoshida Fireworks, one of the three major fireworks festivals in Japan during the Edo period. The Yoshida Shrine that organizes the festival is the birthplace of Japanese hand-held fireworks. The most special thing about the Toyohashi Fireworks Festival is that the competitive fireworks are set off continuously from daytime until 7 o’clock in the evening when the festival starts, and the sound of fireworks explosions can be heard continuously in the town. Since the fireworks are launched from the surface of the Toyogawa River, the second feature of the Toyohashi Fireworks Festival, the “Kawabata Stage”, also makes its debut. Fireworks are launched from three different locations using boats, and different decorative fireworks will be launched continuously during the 2 hours of the fireworks display, which is very spectacular. The last event is the “Large Fireworks Ocean”, which is a 140-meter-long sea of fireworks on the surface of the Toyokawa River. Combined with the reflection on the water, it is magnificent and touching!

TOYOKA INARI Toyokawa Inari is one of the three major Inari in Japan and is very effective in praying for business prosperity. The official name is “Myogon-ji Temple”. Since it was built about 580 years ago in the Muromachi period (1441), it has been worshipped by local generals such as Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu. Currently, about five million people come to worship every year. After visiting the main hall, you can visit the fox tomb where a stone statue of a fox is placed. Originally, this was a place for offering fox statues. Now, it is densely packed with more than 1,000 fox stone statues of various sizes offered by believers, which is very spectacular.