Niigata
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Nagaoka Festival Grand Fireworks Display
Counted among Japan's three major fireworks festivals, featuring 650-meter diameter Phoenix simultaneous launches coloring the night sky. Two-day event held August 2-3 for memorial and reconstruction prayers.
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Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale
World's largest-scale international art festival transforming entire 760-square-kilometer satoyama area including terraced rice fields and closed schools into museum. Held triennially.
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Niigata Festival
Summer tradition enveloping city center in fervor through Sumiyoshi procession, folk song parade, thousand-person taiko drums, and Gokoku Shrine fireworks.