Nesta Resort Kobe to Host 'Super' Summer Festival 2026, Featuring Fireworks Every Day for 30 Days

Nesta Resort Kobe Co., Ltd. (Miki City, Hyogo Prefecture; Representative Director: Atsushi Tanaka) will hold the summer-exclusive event 'Nesta "Super" Summer Festival 2026' every day for 30 days from Saturday, July 25 to Sunday, August 23, 2026. With 515 fireworks lighting up the night sky each day—totaling 15,450 fireworks over the period—the event offers a wide variety of content to be enjoyed from day to night. Highlights include the approximately 10-minute 'Super Summer Fireworks' show synchronized with music, 'HANABINGO,' a participatory game where guests enjoy bingo based on the colors and patterns of the fireworks, traditional festival stalls (Ennichi), and a night market food area. According to the company's research, the cumulative number of fireworks launched and the consecutive days of operation boast the largest scale in the Kansai region. For 2026, the music and fireworks compositions have been expanded from two patterns last year to four. In addition to enjoying different performances depending on the day of visit, the night pool 'Starlight Lagoon' will also be open during the Obon period, proposing a unique summer night combining fireworks, festivals, and pools that only Nesta Resort Kobe can offer. As the park attracts many visitors every year, it expects approximately 30,000 visitors during the event period this year. *Based on company research regarding the cumulative number of fireworks launched and consecutive days of operation. A summer experience of 'fireworks you can see every day' for 30 consecutive days The biggest feature of this event is that 'fireworks are launched every day during the period.' 515 fireworks per day, totaling 15,450 over 30 days. It is not only easy to visit regardless of the schedule and enjoy while dispersing congestion, but guests can also enjoy visiting multiple times for different performances. Unlike single-day fireworks festivals, it is a summer event that can be fully enjoyed on a day trip or an overnight stay as 'fireworks you can enjoy on your favorite day and in your favorite way.' Because they are launched near the viewing area, visitors are enveloped in a realistic sensation of light and sound raining down. Every day, in a summer where fireworks are becoming precious. In recent years, fireworks festivals, a summer tradition, have been canceled or scaled down one after another nationwide. A complex mix of circumstances—soaring prices of gunpowder and materials, increased labor costs for security, a shortage of operational staff, and the financial difficulties of local governments—is making it increasingly difficult to hold long-loved festivals year by year (from Kirin's 'National Fireworks Festival White Paper 2025' and other various reports). Even around Hyogo Prefecture, some festivals are forced to scale down or change their dates. Under such circumstances, this event will launch fireworks every day for 30 days from July 25 to August 23. They will be held even on rainy days (rain or shine, though they may be canceled to ensure safety in strong winds or stormy weather). Not just for 'one night only,' but to continue to be a place where people can casually watch fireworks every night during the summer—that desire is put into the daily launches. In 2026, the combination of music and fireworks evolves into '4 patterns' The approximately 10-minute 'Super Summer Fireworks' show, synchronized with music, will unfold with four patterns of musical composition starting in 2026. Patterns A and B are scheduled to be performed alternately in the first half of the period, and patterns C and D in the second half. Since visitors can encounter different fireworks performances depending on the day they visit, they can experience fresh surprises no matter how many times they visit. It is designed so that overnight guests can enjoy different performances on their check-in and check-out days. 'HANABINGO,' a 'participatory fireworks' that does not end with just watching 'HANABINGO' is a participatory fireworks game in which guests advance their cards according to the colors and patterns of the fireworks launched into the night sky. It will be developed as unique content of Nesta Resort Kobe, where families and groups can get excited together. From 'watching fireworks' to 'playing with fireworks.' We will deliver an experiential fun that is a little different from conventional fireworks festivals. About the fireworks to be launched —The summer night sky crafted by 'Sanko Enka Seizosho,' the only fireworks manufacturer in Hyogo Prefecture The fireworks for this event are handled by 'Sanko Enka Seizosho' (founded in 1951 / Himeji City), known as the only fireworks manufacturer in Hyogo Prefecture. From manufacturing to launching, the company consistently handles the process, producing about 30,000 to 40,000 fireworks every year. This year, it will be involved in about 100 fireworks festivals, mainly within the prefecture. The making of fireworks does not begin just before the season; preparation for the next summer begins in the autumn of the previous year before summer ends. Making the 'stars' (particles of light), loading the shells, layering kraft paper on the surface multiple times, and sun-drying for several days—through many manual processes, a single firework is completed. For prototypes, test launches are repeated about once a month at a golf course in Tatsuno City to refine new works. What the company values is not only the large number of launches. Even with small shells, they pursue fireworks expressions that remain in the hearts of viewers. Even as the environment surrounding fireworks changes, the ability to enjoy fireworks carefully finished one by one by a locally rooted creator anytime during the period is a major value of this event. Fireworks are a momentary brilliance, but taking a long time for that single shot...