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Fireworks and sand - ingredients for a great summer.
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Fireworks festivals are a major part of a Japanese summer, with some events pulling in hundreds of thousands of people, sometimes more.
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The train heaves with people on their way there. Mind you, heaving trains in Tokyo is pretty common.
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People pour off the trains and into the station.
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Through the ticket gates to face one full station concourse.
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Many Japanese girls wear a kind of summer kimono, called a yukata, when they attend fireworks festivals.
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Yukatas are brightly coloured and often lavishly patterned.
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Merry revellers on their way to the main event.
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Everywhere you look, someone is wearing a yukata.
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Lining the streets in anticipation of the show in the sky.
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Japanese for 'firework' is 'hanabi', literally meaning 'fire flower'.
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Fireworks events are a large part of the summer calender and are held throughout the season.
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Some of the events last one or even two hours.
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The displays themselves can be quite spectacular.
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Different fireworks combine to draw intricate sketches across the night sky. Sometimes, they create special designs or even recreate cartoon characters.
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Every few moments, you hear gasps across the area as yet another beautiful display illuminates the darkness.
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