Nanki Shirahama Fireworks Festa
南紀白浜花火
Nanki Shirahama Fireworks Festa is a fireworks festival held in 和歌山県 西牟婁郡白浜町. Date: Monday 10 August 2026 - normally around 10 August. Total shells: about 約2,500. Attendance: 非公開. No. 回数表記なし
Event essentials
Headline stats
- Total Shells
- 約2,500
- Duration
- 30 min
- Nights
- 1 night(s)
- Attendance
- 非公開
- Largest Shell
- Not confirmed in the sources checked (2026-10-20 pass)
- Founding Year
- 1975 per the manifest's id_founding_year; neither the fireworks database nor ja.wikipedia states a first year explicitly
Signature Sequences
- 01'20:10: firing begins'
- 02'20:40: firing ends'
- 03fired from three points - Ponporo Island, Genzaki Cape and a barge
- 04viewing from the sand of a public bathing beach
- 05a short firing window of about 2,500 shells over thirty minutes
- 06postponement rather than cancellation in stormy weather
Venue & Access
- Time Window
- 20:10-20:40 (30 minutes of firing)
- Venue
- Shirahama beach, Shirahama Town, Nishimuro District, Wakayama Prefecture
- Address
- Shirahama beach, Shirahama Town, Nishimuro District, Wakayama Prefecture 33.681726°N, 135.344433°E
- Venue Size
- Not confirmed in the sources checked (2026-10-20 pass)
- Venue Floor Type
- Coast - the sand and water of a public bathing beach, with launch points on Ponporo Island and from a barge
- Gates Open
- Not confirmed in the sources checked (2026-10-20 pass)
- Paid-Seat Holder Entry
- Not applicable - the fireworks database records no paid seating
- Spectator Capacity
- Not published
- Production Company
- Not published - none of the sources checked names a fireworks contractor
- Sponsor
- Organiser: the Nanki Shirahama Tourism Association, which also supplied the photograph and is listed as the contact, 0739-43-3201; town information centre Shirasuna on 0739-43-5511
Access
Venue map
View on Google MapsFrom major cities
- From Tokyo
- Take the Shinkansen to Namba or Wakayama, then the Kii Railway to Shirahama Station and a fourteen-minute bus ride. Travel time is not stated in the sources
- From Osaka
- Take the Kansai Main Line and the Kii Railway to Shirahama Station, then a fourteen-minute bus ride. Travel time is not stated in the sources
- From Sendai
- Take the Shinkansen and the Kii Railway to Shirahama Station, then a fourteen-minute bus ride. Travel time is not stated in the sources
- Nearest Station
- JR Shirahama Station - about fourteen minutes by bus, alighting at the Shirahama stop right by the venue
- Nearest Shinkansen
- There is no Shinkansen on the Kii Peninsula; the nearest are JR Namba and JR Wakayama
- Local Transit
- About fourteen minutes by bus from JR Shirahama Station on the service bound for Sandanbe, alighting at the Shirahama stop
- Parking
- Temporary parking is planned; no capacity is stated
- Parking Reservation
- Not confirmed in the sources checked (2026-10-20 pass)
- Lodging Strategy
- Shirahama Station town is the main base, fourteen minutes by bus or about ten minutes by car from the venue; the Shirahama area has many hot-spring ryokan
- English Access
- The venue is an open public beach with no access restriction recorded. The bus from JR Shirahama Station is the main access, but onboard multilingual guidance is not recorded in the sources
- Cash Required
- Not needed - entry is free and the database records no paid seating
- Best Arrival
- By car, around 19:00 to beat the traffic control; by rail, around 19:30 given the fourteen-minute bus ride
- Peak Crowd
- 20:10-20:40; during the day the sand is busy with beachgoers
Tickets
- Seat Type
- None - no paid seats (the fireworks database records no paid seating)
- Price Range
- Free
- 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 confirmed in the sources checked (2026-10-20 pass)
- Day-Of Ticket
- Not confirmed in the sources checked (2026-10-20 pass)
Weather Policy
- Rain
- Not confirmed in the sources checked beyond the fact that in stormy weather the 2026 show was postponed to Sunday 23 August
- Decision Time
- Not confirmed in the sources checked (2026-10-20 pass)
- Postponement
- In stormy weather postponed to Sunday 23 August 2026, 20:10-20:40
- Wind Threshold
- Not confirmed in the sources checked (2026-10-20 pass)
- Typical Risks
- Shirahama sits on the coast, where typhoons and heavy rain are common in August. Stormy weather triggers postponement, and the reserve date is announced in advance
- Weather Cancellation History
- '2020 and 2021: no information on whether the festival was held appears in the sources checked'