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On December 3, 2023, I went to see and photograph the Chichibu Night Festival (Grand Festival) held in Chichibu City, Saitama Prefecture. The Chichibu Night Festival is one of the three major float festivals in Japan along with the Kyoto Gion Festival and the Hida Takayama Festival, and is a prestigious festival with a history of about 300 years that is registered as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. It is held every year on December 2nd (Yoimiya) and 3rd (Grand Festival), and especially on the Grand Festival on the 3rd, spectacular fireworks are also launched. This year, the Yoimiya and Grand Festival overlapped on the weekend, Saturday and Sunday, and many tourists visited, making it a very lively festival. Along the way, one of the six floats got stuck due to a wheel malfunction, and there was a problem that the floats did not gather at the Otabisho at the climax of the fireworks. The wind conditions were perfect, and the fireworks themselves looked very beautiful, so it was very unfortunate that we could not see the floats lined up at the Otabisho and the fireworks together. Click here to see the video of last year's Chichibu Night Festival fireworks • UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Chichibu Night Festival Floats and Fireworks 2022 - Fireworks... Click here to see the video of the Chichibu Night Festival fireworks filmed from the top of Mt. Buko • [4K] The stunning night view of Chichibu and the Chichibu Night Festival Fireworks Display from Mt. Buko - F... Filming cooperation: Chichibu Tourism Association, Toshinari Fujii Filming location: Chichibu Shrine Otabisho, Chichibu City, Saitama Prefecture https://goo.gl/maps/CEw3cdFrp5C4MBPw7 location : Chichibu, Saitama, Japan https://goo.gl/maps/CEw3cdFrp5C4MBPw7 Filming equipment : Panasonic S5 + BMD Video Assist, TTartisan 21mm F1.5, Sigma 85mm F1.4 AQUA Geo Graphic (English) http://www.aquageographic.net/home/ AQUA Geo Graphic (Japanese) http://www.aquageographic.com/home/