Fireworks coloring the night sky and a variety of unique curries! This Weekend’s Recommendations

Enjoy handheld fireworks and fair at Suma Rikyu Park “Cool Evening at Rikyu” will be held. Entrance fee is required. Visitors can enjoy handheld fireworks at the Fountain Square and Poseidon Square, and water for firefighting will be available. Around the rest house, there will be many fair stalls with super ball scooping, target shooting, frankfurters, takoyaki (octopus dumplings), etc.

Source: Kobe City Official Event Site Odekake KOBE

Mikkii Summer Festival 2025″ will be held on the central lawn of Hyogo Prefectural Miki General Disaster Prevention Park, with many booths and food stands to add color to the summer evening. The stage events will feature performances by a variety of groups, including calligraphy performances, street dance, yosakoi, hip-hop dance, kids cheerleading, and more. Fireworks are scheduled to be launched at 19:45.

Source: Miki City Official Website

One of the biggest summer festivals in Nishiwaki City, “The 4th Nishiwaki Summer Festival, the Heso of Japan” will be held at the Japanese Navel Park. About 100 stalls and stage events can be enjoyed, and the finale will be a spectacular fireworks display of about 2,000 shots that will light up the night sky. There are also activities such as goldfish scooping and bubbling soap bubbles at the venue.

Source: Nishiwaki City Official Website

Kotorippu x HDC Kobe Traveling Marche” will be held at HDC Kobe (Chuo-ku, Kobe City). Admission is free. This is the first real event of the travel guidebook “Kotorippu” in the Kansai region. Twenty-four stores from all over Japan will open their stores. You can find sweets, souvenirs, sundries, interior goods, and other items that you can encounter on your travels.

Source: Kobe Harbor Land official website

Papios Akashi Summer Festival 2025″ will be held at the Akashi Civic Plaza on the 2nd floor of Papios Akashi. In addition to the ever-popular “Tire Train,” there will be a “Dinosaur Slider” for children from 4 years old to 4th grade elementary school students, and three types of fairs: ring toss, bottle fishing, and super ball scooping.

Source: “Papios Akashi” official website

The “Materials Market in Miki,” an event where handmade materials are gathered, will offer a wide variety of materials, including fabrics, rags, leather scraps, lace, fasteners, and other parts, as well as one-of-a-kind items such as dried flowers, cut cloth with recipes, and antique parts. Michi no Eki Miki, the venue of the event, offers a wide variety of gourmet foods and local products from Miki City.

Source: “Michi no Eki Miki” official website

The 5th Takarazuka Curry Grand Prix 2025, an event in which students from eight universities in the Hanshin area sell original “retort curry” they have developed themselves, is being held at Takarazuka Hankyu. The students also sell “take-out curry,” an arrangement of retort-pouch curry, at stores (in limited quantities), and compete against other universities for the highest overall sales.

Courtesy of Takarazuka Hankyu