Hokkoku Fireworks Kanazawa Finished Major festival

Name: Hokkoku Fireworks Kanazawa 2026
Start: 2026-07-25
End: 2026-07-25
Location: Sai River green belt, Kanazawa

北國花火金沢大会 — Kanazawa, Ishikawa (Hokuriku)

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Date: Sat, July 25, 2026 (The 2026 edition has concluded — 2027 dates are not yet announced)
Venue: Sai River green belt, Kanazawa (犀川緑地(大豆田本町)周辺)
Scale: ~12,000 fireworks
Official site: hk-event.jp

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The Hokkoku Fireworks Kanazawa festival puts about 12,000 shells over the Sai River, a fifteen-minute walk from the samurai districts and tea houses of Japan's best-preserved castle town. The 2026 edition is dedicated to Noto earthquake recovery, and the show's scale is unusually large for how easy it is to attend.

Planning for 2027

The 2026 edition of Hokkoku Fireworks Kanazawa was held on Sat, Jul 25. It is usually held on the last Saturday of July, which in 2027 would fall on Sat, Jul 31. The organiser sets each year's date itself, so treat that as a planning window and confirm it before you book anything fixed.

The 2027 date has not been published yet. This page is re-checked against the official source and updated as soon as it appears, so it is worth a look again before you book anything non-refundable.

Background

Run by the Hokkoku Shimbun newspaper across multiple venues in Ishikawa each summer, the Kanazawa edition is the flagship, a fixture of the city's late-July calendar for decades.

Getting there

The venue is the Sai River green belt at Omameda: about 20 minutes by bus or taxi from JR Kanazawa Station (Hokuriku Shinkansen, 2.5 hours from Tokyo), or 25 minutes on foot from the Katamachi entertainment district.

Tips

Kanazawa's tourism infrastructure absorbs the crowd better than most fireworks cities — this is one of the easiest 'big show + great destination' pairings in Japan.
Free riverbank space is generous by national standards; arriving at dusk still gets a workable spot.
Stay near Katamachi/Korinbo and you can walk both to the show and back to your hotel — skip the bus queues entirely.
The 2026 Noto-support program is expected to include memorial pieces; check the official program for the dedication segments.

Last verified against the official source: Thu, July 16, 2026