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Winter fireworks show at Expo Park in Osaka, cheers go up at 15,000 shots » Lmaga.jp

Fireworks launch at “The Day the Expo’s Night Sky Comes Art” (26th, Suita City)

On November 26th, a show that combines fireworks, art and music, “The Day the Night Sky of the Expo Comes Art” will be held in the eastern square of the Expo’70 Memorial Park (Suita City, Osaka Prefecture). Around 15,000 fireworks were launched, attracting around 30,000 spectators.

This event was planned for the first time with the hope that “I want you to look up at the sky and release your heart, which has tended to be closed due to the long-term self-restraint due to the wreckage of the corona, and connect to” d vitality for tomorrow.”

Kansai’s proud pyrotechnicians gathered for this event, such as Osaka’s Katsuragi Fireworks and Shiga’s Kakinoki Fireworks. Using a launch technique that can be controlled to 1/100th of a second, we created a show where music and fireworks were synchronized.

Expo ’70 Memorial Park east plaza, location of “The Day the Expo’s Night Sky Becomes Art” (26th, Suita City)

At the opening, Tetsuo of Waraimeshi, who is known as a comedian who loves fireworks and is an ambassador for the event, explained the types of fireworks, such as the difference between “chrysanthemum” and “peony” . Afterwards, blue fireworks colored the night sky and opened with gratitude to the medical workers.

DREAMS COME TRUE “Osaka LOVER,” Jackson 5’s “I Want You Back,” which was popular around EXPO ’70, and Osaka-born artist Ai Otsuka’s “Planetarium” were launched, and each time the timing was perfect. ok, the cheers went up.

In the second half, a crazy Christmas medley unfolds with red and green fireworks that look like trees, along with famous winter songs like “Koibitotachi no Christmas” and “Shiroi Koibitotachi. 50,000 shots including small ones), and it was an extremely powerful firework show very close.

People taking photos of fireworks at “The Day the Expo’s Night Sky Becomes Art” (26th, Suita City)

As the audience walked back home, they said things like, “I was blown away by how well it went with the music,” “I want to come again next year,” and “I glad that the combination of Christmas and fireworks is new.” .

The Expo Fireworks Project Executive Committee said, “The goal of this fireworks musical show, which connects us to the future from 2022, is to ensure the development of the region as the ‘Legacy of the Osaka area’.”