Some 10,000 fireworks were set off Thursday evening at a beach within the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage-listed Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range.
The organizers said 120,000 people were treated to the rare pyrotechnic display including fireworks.
The fireworks were set off from rafts on the sea during the event in Kumano in central Japan's Mie Prefecture
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