Nanbu Fire Festival
南部の火祭り
Nanbu Fire Festival is a fireworks festival held in 山梨県 南巨摩郡南部町. Date: Saturday 15 August 2026 - normally 15 August. Total shells: about 約3,000. Attendance: 非公開（2026年）. No. 回数表記なし
Event essentials
Headline stats
- Total Shells
- 約3,000
- Duration
- 30 min
- Nights
- 1 night(s)
- Attendance
- 非公開（2026年）
- Largest Shell
- Two-metre balls (ja.wikipedia); nothing is recorded about three-metre shells or larger
- Founding Year
- Thought to date from the Genroku era of the late seventeenth century; the modern start year is the manifest's id_founding_year of 1960
Signature Sequences
- 01'15:00-18:00: stage show'
- 02'18:30: opening declaration'
- 03'from 18:40: Nanbu fire festival taiko and torch throwing'
- 04'from 19:30: lantern floating'
- 05'from 19:45: great torch lighting'
- 06'from 20:00: lighting of the 108 towers and taiko'
- 07'from 20:15: fireworks and bon odori'
- 08'20:45: fireworks end'
- 09the climax of the 108 towers lit together along two kilometres of the Fujikawa
- 10a great torch over six metres tall built from about 30,000 discarded sotoba
- 11an origin combining the Obon spirit-sending, a river memorial and crop protection
- 12about 3,000 shells centred on two-metre balls as the finale of the whole fire festival
- 13an accessible viewing arrangement at the Alpha Center
Venue & Access
- Time Window
- Fireworks 20:15-20:45 (about thirty minutes); the schedule begins at 15:00
- Venue
- the Fujikawa riverbed above and below Nanbu Bridge (Nanbu Town, Minamikoma District, Yamanashi Prefecture)
- Address
- Fujikawa riverbed, Nanbu Bridge, Nanbu Town, Minamikoma District, Yamanashi Prefecture 35.177353°N, 138.615533°E
- Venue Size
- Not confirmed in the sources checked (2026-10-20 pass)
- Venue Floor Type
- Riverbed - the venue is a stretch of the Fujikawa riverbed, with a Mukashi-side main venue and an E-side venue
- Gates Open
- 15:00 (the time the first item on the 2026 programme, the stage show, begins; the fireworks start at 20:15)
- Paid-Seat Holder Entry
- Not applicable - the fireworks database records no paid seating
- Spectator Capacity
- Not published
- Production Company
- Not published - none of the five sources checked names a fireworks contractor
- Sponsor
- Organiser: the Nanbu Fire Festival Executive Committee, inside Nanbu Town Hall's industry division. Enquiries: Nanbu Town Hall industry division 0556-64-8075 (commerce and tourism) or the town switchboard 0556-66-2111
Access
Venue map
View on Google MapsFrom major cities
- From Tokyo
- Take the Chuo Main Line or the Senmi Line to Uchitsu Station and walk ten to twenty minutes. Travel time is not stated in the sources
- From Osaka
- Take the Chuo Main Line or the Senmi Line to Uchitsu Station and walk ten to twenty minutes. Travel time is not stated in the sources
- From Sendai
- Take the Chuo Main Line or the Senmi Line to Uchitsu Station and walk ten to twenty minutes. Travel time is not stated in the sources
- Nearest Station
- JR Uchitsu Station on the Senmi Line - twenty minutes on foot (ten minutes to the Mukashi-side main venue)
- Nearest Shinkansen
- Not applicable - Yamanashi has no Shinkansen; the nearest is JR Fuji Station on the Chuo Main Line
- Local Transit
- JR Uchitsu Station is about two kilometres from the venue, ten to twenty minutes on foot. Temporary trains and extra carriages run between Fuji, Uchitsu and Senmi stations on festival days
- Parking
- About 3,000 cars at 500 yen per day (fireworks database). The car park by Uchitsu station is normally free and charged only on festival day
- Parking Reservation
- Not needed - used on the day
- Lodging Strategy
- Nanbu Town itself or the area around JR Uchitsu Station is the main base. Uchitsu is on the Senmi Line and connects to Fuji and Senmi stations, with temporary and extra trains running on festival days
- English Access
- The venue is an open riverbank with no access restriction recorded, but JR Uchitsu Station is two kilometres away and parking is charged on festival day, so arriving by bus is advisable. Multilingual signage from the organisers is not recorded in the sources
- Cash Required
- Cash is needed - the car park in front of Uchifune Station is free on ordinary days but is paid on the day of the fire festival (per the ja.wikipedia article on the Nanbu Fire Festival)
- Best Arrival
- Around 19:30 if coming only for the fireworks, or at 15:00 for the full programme from the stage show
- Peak Crowd
- The simultaneous lighting of the 108 towers at 20:00 and the fireworks from 20:15; the 15:00 stage programme disperses through the day
Tickets
- Seat Type
- None - no paid seats (the fireworks database records no paid seating)
- Price Range
- Free (parking only, 500 yen per day)
- Seat Count
- None - the festival has no paid seats seats
- Sellout History
- None - there are no paid seats, so there is no sell-out record
- Reservation
- Not needed - used on the day
- Day-Of Ticket
- Not confirmed in the sources checked (2026-10-20 pass)
Weather Policy
- Rain
- Held in light rain; in stormy weather only the fireworks are postponed
- Decision Time
- Not confirmed in the sources checked (2026-10-20 pass)
- Postponement
- Held in light rain; in stormy weather only the fireworks are postponed. The reserve date is given on the town's official site
- Wind Threshold
- Not confirmed in the sources checked (2026-10-20 pass)
- Typical Risks
- 15 August falls in the Obon period when a steady breeze blows off the valley. The town's official page recorded concern about rain on the morning of the 2026 festival, and the operating rule is light-rain go with only the fireworks postponed in stormy weather
- Weather Cancellation History
- '2020 and 2021: no information on whether the festival was held appears in the sources checked'