Saga Balloon Fiesta

How do they return to base...?

With thousands of hectares of space you have to bunch together in a crowded group and risk an accident. Collectivism at it’s best folks.

Nice event to visit but you have to be very there very earily in the morning to enjoy it fully and obviously even a little bit of change in the weather can cause a cancellation so it has never been terribly popular.

I was there today, and just got back, it was just mind-blowing, the most beautiful thing to watch must have been over 10,000 people, and traffic was just horrendous, but worth it, the show started at 7 am and we left at 4 am and still hit heavy, heavy traffic.

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so it has never been terribly popular.

really. It has been going on since 1978.

https://www.sibf.jp/en/history/

Are the ballons empty? Or are there passengers in them? Is it dangerous to be a passenger in a hot air baloon? How can passengers escape if there is a fire? Or is it a fiery end in the sky to life on earth?

really. It has been going on since 1978.

One thing is that is being still held, but never to the degree the spectacle merits, it simply is too bothersome for many so even if it is spectacular and worth travelling from other prefectures it has never caught as much as other relatively more simple things (that are easier to access).

Looks like a desert, hardly a tree in sight.

I see a river, a town, a lot of green grass and a lot of people having fun, where is your desert???...