Daigo Town Fireworks Festival — Matsunuma Bridge & Disaster Prevention Roadside Station Completion Commemorative Event (Tentative)

Summary

Seven years after the 2019 typhoon swept it away, Daigo's fireworks return to celebrate finished river works, a new bridge and the October opening of the roadside station Okukuji Daigo WEST. November 21, 18:00-18:30 (tentative), launched from the sandbar where the Kuji and Oshikawa rivers meet. Once an Obon ritual paired with lantern-floating, it now re-emerges on an autumn night. Shell count is undecided; the site is effectively station-front, five minutes on foot from JR Hitachi-Daigo, The reopening also celebrates completed flood-control works along the Kuji River, with about 2,000 free parking spaces planned for the day.

Overview

Daigo is a town in visible recovery - the roadside station Okukuji Daigo WEST opens October 10, 2026 - and the fireworks commemorate the rebuilt Matsunuma-bashi bridge and the disaster-ready station. The event's own name still carries a provisional '(tentative)', a reminder that details may shift. The launch sandbar sits close to town, within the same zone as the station-front restaurants. Event listing services indicate a postponement to Sunday, November 22 in stormy weather. Area sights such as the Fukuroda Falls and the Nishiyama-so residence in nearby Hitachi-Ota exceed a day trip, so basing at a local onsen inn is the natural way to take in this corner of Okukuji. The new roadside station on the west bank deserves a walk-through before dark.

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