Each year, 300,000 residents of Fukushima and beyond line the banks of the Shakado River in Sukagawa City for the prefectures’s largest fireworks festival.
The festival location is a 5 minute walk from JR Sukagawa station. Sukagawa is a city in central Fukushima prefecture.
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