
The 31st Toyohashi Festival of Flame centers on the city's famed handheld tezutsu fireworks — tubes of fire carried aloft by performers — at the Kamome Plaza soccer fields on November 7, 2026, from 5:30 p.m. Roughly 4,000 attend the intimate, ticketed edition. Parking is arranged; food stalls are not part of the program, so dinner belongs to the port city's eateries beforehand.
Toyohashi's identity in the fireworks world rests on tezutsu hanabi — the handheld tubes performers clasp as they spout pillars of fire — and the Festival of Flame is the city's dedicated celebration of the craft, now in its 31st year. The 2026 edition takes the Kamome Plaza junior soccer fields on November 7 from 5:30 p.m.: an early start for an early-dark November evening, with an audience of about 4,000 kept deliberately compact around the performers. Paid admission funds the staging; parking is arranged; food stalls are not part of the program, so plan dinner around Toyohashi's restaurant streets first. The festival committee — based at the chamber of commerce — runs the event, with details on its official site. Stand close: tezutsu is a proximity art.
Handheld tezutsu fire-tubes up close — Toyohashi's 31st Festival of Flame.