Katsuyama Noryo Fireworks Festival
勝ち山夏物語
Katsuyama Noryo Fireworks Festival is a fireworks festival held in Chubu. Date: 2026-08-14 (Fri, 70th edition); 2025-08-14 (Thu, first edition in three years). Total shells: about 3000. Attendance: 7000. No. 70回
Event essentials
Headline stats
- Total Shells
- 3000
- Duration
- 30 min
- Nights
- 1 night(s)
- Attendance
- 7000
- Largest Shell
- Not published - no source gives a shell size
- Founding Year
- 1957 (Showa 32)
Signature Sequences
Venue & Access
- Time Window
- 19:30-20:00 (30 minutes)
- Venue
- Benten Ryokuchi Park, Katsuyama (勝山弁天緑地公園)
- Address
- Benten Ryokuchi Park, Motomachi, Katsuyama City, Fukui
- Venue Size
- Not confirmed in the sources checked (2026-10-20 pass)
- Venue Floor Type
- The lawn of an urban park - a ground launch inside a park rather than a riverbed (the site was the Benten riverbed in the early years)
- Gates Open
- The かっちゃマルシェ market opens at 16:00. No gate time for the fireworks viewing area is published; the firing starts at 19:30
- Paid-Seat Holder Entry
- Not confirmed in the sources checked (2026-10-20 pass)
- Spectator Capacity
- Not published - no source carries a capacity; the typical crowd is about 7,000
- Launch Company
- Not publicly disclosed
- Production Company
- Not published - the campaign page says a fireworks-consumption permit, a river-occupancy permit, an urban-park-use permit and a road-use permit are required, but names no fireworks company
- Sponsor
- Katsuyama Chamber of Commerce (勝山商工会議所) - machinaka nigiwai project. Contact TEL 0779-88-0463.
Access
Venue map
View on Google MapsFrom major cities
- From Tokyo
- Echizen Railway Katsuyama Station; 10 minutes by car from the Chuo-Chuo Expressway Katsuyama IC
- From Osaka
- Hokuriku Shinkansen to Tsuruga Station, then the Echizen Railway Obama Line to Katsuyama Station; by car about 40 minutes from the Fukui-kita IC on the Hokuriku Expressway
- From Sendai
- Shinkansen from the north down the Hokuriku line to Tsuruga or Fukui, then the Echizen Railway to Katsuyama Station, 5-15 minutes on foot from there
- Nearest Station
- Echizen Railway Katsuyama Station - 5 minutes on foot per the Fukui City official tourism site (Walker Plus lists 15 minutes)
- Nearest Shinkansen
- No Shinkansen station in Katsuyama; nearest is Fukui Station on the Hokuriku Shinkansen line
- Local Transit
- Echizen Railway Katsuyama Station is the nearest station (5 minutes on foot per the Fukui City official tourism site, 15 minutes per Walker Plus). The station car park is one of the free lots listed
- Parking
- About 500 free spaces at the Katsuyama City Hall, the education and welfare hall, the post office frontage, the library and the Echizen Railway car park
- Parking Reservation
- Not applicable - there is no parking reservation system, although crowdfunded supporters were given a 'nearest car park to the venue' permit as a return
- Lodging Strategy
- Stay around Katsuyama (the dinosaur hot springs and other ryokan) and walk from Echizen Railway Katsuyama Station. The sources carry no official lodging guidance
- English Access
- The access page of the Katsuyama city tourism site carries an English version of its visitor guidance, showing how to circulate from Katsuyama Station: the sightseeing bus (Heisenji Hakusan Shrine, Dinosaur Museum, Echizen Daibutsu), car sharing (not available in the winter months) and e-bike rental. The organiser's own pages (Katsuyama Chamber of Commerce) and the crowdfunding seat guidance are, however, published in Japanese only.
- Cash Required
- Cash for food and goods at the market stalls; general viewing is free
- Best Arrival
- The 16:00 hour, when the market opens and before dark. The shells are only a 30-minute burst from 19:30, and after dark both the crowd and the parking are gone
- Peak Crowd
- Peak at the 19:30 start and the finale; the market fills the park from 16:00 to 20:00
Tickets
- Seat Type
- 100 chair seats on the upstream footbridge of Katsuyama Bridge, which crosses the launch site, sold as a crowdfunding return
- Price Range
- Not published - general viewing is free and the special viewing seats were a return on a donation-style crowdfunding campaign whose amounts are no longer listed
- Seat Count
- 100 seats (chairs on the upstream footbridge of Katsuyama Bridge, planned) seats
- Sellout History
- Not applicable - this was a cancellation-flexible crowdfunding, and no sell-out figure is published
- Reservation
- Not applicable for general viewing (free). The special viewing seats were distributed in advance as returns on the Ready for campaign
- Day-Of Ticket
- Not applicable (general viewing is free, no day tickets). The special viewing seats go only to crowdfunding supporters
Weather Policy
- Rain
- Postponed to 15 or 16 August in severe weather. If the event cannot be held on those dates the crowdfunding special viewing seats and the かっちゃマルシェ market are cancelled.
- Decision Time
- The show starts at 19:30 and bad weather means a postponement to 15 or 16 August; the organiser names the reserve dates but publishes no clock time for the go/no-go decision
- Postponement
- 2026-08-15 or 2026-08-16
- Wind Threshold
- No wind-speed limit is published; in stormy weather the show is postponed to 15 or 16 August
- Typical Risks
- Mid-August Hokuriku brings heat waves and sudden thunderstorms. Bad weather means postponement to 15 or 16 August rather than cancellation
- Weather Cancellation History
- No weather cancellation appears in the sources. 2023 and 2024 were not held, and the 2026 reserve dates are set at 15 and 16 August