
Nagaoka's Halloween-season fireworks take over Echigo Hillside National Park on October 24, 2026, with the festival program opening 4:30 p.m. for a themed 'fantasy night' — Halloween pyrotechnics among a national park's rolling hills. The event is ticketed, with paid entry, festival food stalls, and the park's extensive parking. The 4:30 p.m. opening builds a full dusk-to-dark arc: daylight park, then sky.
Echigo Hillside National Park, the vast landscaped park outside Nagaoka in Niigata, hosts an October evening with a costume-box spirit: a Halloween-themed fireworks festival promising a fantastic night, with a 4:30 p.m. start that makes an afternoon of it. The 2026 date is October 24. As a national-park event, the production runs on tickets — paid admission with tiered options — plus food stalls across the grounds and the park's signature parking capacity. The rolling hills and designed landscapes give viewing areas unusual texture: lawns, terraces, and woodland edges rather than concrete levees. The park's official event page is the source for tickets and the day's schedule; late October in Niigata can touch frost after dark — dress for it. The 4:30 p.m. gates make it a full-day outing.
Halloween-themed fireworks across a national park, from a 4:30 p.m. start.