Tokyo Fireworks Festival: Edomode

Fireworks festivals are a Japanese summer tradition, so it's no surprise that the shopping and entertainment district of Odaiba has decided to light up the sky at the beginning of August. Four of Japan’s leading pyrotechnics companies will each create a colourful segment which will see a total of 12,000 fireworks shot into the sky – and the event will end with a bang (well, several hundred bangs) when the quartet of companies collaborate to produce an explosive finale.