Fussa Firefly Festival 2024 Dates. Every year, the outlying suburb of fussa, located an hour west of tokyo, reincarnates one of japan’s classic summer scenes with its annual firefly festival. The festival takes place in hotaru park along the tamagawa river and offers a vibrant cultural experience.

Every summer in the western suburbs of tokyo, the japanese tanabata or star festival turns sleepy fussa into a merry place filled with lanterns, people, colors, activities, food. The mysteriously glowing creatures have be never been to fussa?