{"id":6214,"date":"2010-07-29T18:18:30","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T01:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=6214"},"modified":"2010-07-29T18:19:35","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T01:19:35","slug":"fireworks-over-the-arakawa-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/fireworks-over-the-arakawa-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireworks over the Arakawa River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/P1040289trim2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/P1040289trim2-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"arakawa hanabi adachi taikai\" title=\"tokyo japan fireworks\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/P1040289trim2-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/P1040289trim2-250x140.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/P1040289trim2.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To avoid the insane crowds, which can approach a million people, at the Sumida River Fireworks, we decided to stake out a place at the Adachi Hanabi Taikai (\u8db3\u7acb\u306e\u82b1\u706b) instead. Attendance the prior year was &#8220;only&#8221; 600,000 people so I arrived a little before 2 p.m. to lay down my blue tarp. Most spots were still available as it had been raining hard all morning. The wind and rain picked up at times; sometimes it seemed like a typhoon. I had to head for cover on several occasions during the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The rains ceased just before the show began at 7:30 p.m. The atmosphere was electric. People filed in from who knows where at the last minute. The show was spectacular. Here is a short video showing just a few seconds of the full hour worth of <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2010\/05\/fireworks\/>fireworks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"800\" height=\"475\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JI_b4FimeMc&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0&amp;hd=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JI_b4FimeMc&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0&amp;hd=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"800\" height=\"475\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To avoid the insane crowds, which can approach a million people, at the Sumida River Fireworks, we decided to stake out a place at the Adachi Hanabi Taikai (\u8db3\u7acb\u306e\u82b1\u706b) instead. Attendance the prior year was &#8220;only&#8221; 600,000 people so I arrived a little before 2 p.m. to lay down my blue tarp. Most spots were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[294,30,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6214"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6223,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214\/revisions\/6223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}