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Fireworks Ramune (花火ラムネ) — package with a few pieces of the candy in front

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SeasonalRamune tablets

Fireworks Ramune

花火ラムネHanabi Ramune

Put one on your tongue. Watch the sky.

  • ramune soda
  • lemon
  • blue raspberry
Region
Akita
Season
Summer festival season (Jul–Sep)
Shelf price
￥110
Published

Fireworks Ramune are pressed soda tablets shaped like exploding chrysanthemum fireworks — a round center with eight little sparks radiating out — in navy, orange and white. Put one on your tongue and it fizzes immediately, a cold, sharp ramune-soda tingle that spreads outward the way the shape suggests, then dissolves to a sweet lemony finish.

Ramune tablets are a dagashi classic: chalky, fizzy, cheap, sold in tiny bottles and paper packets. These are the deluxe version, pressed harder so they last longer, and flavored in three 'bursts' — plain ramune (white), lemon (orange) and blue raspberry (navy) — mixed in every bag so you never know which one you're getting in the dark.

They're sold from mid-July through the end of the summer festival season, mostly at station kiosks near the big fireworks displays, where they're bought by the fistful by people who've just realized they've been standing in a field for two hours without a snack.

The package

A small pillow bag in deep midnight navy printed with a burst of orange and white firework sparks. 花火ラムネ is set in a bright orange, slightly retro rounded typeface with a white glow around it; a tiny silhouette of a crowd in yukata lines the bottom edge. A 'summer only' banner runs across the top corner. Sold in strips of five bags for festival stalls.

The maker

Pressed by Omagari Ramune Kōbō, a tiny tablet works in the Akita town famous for its national fireworks competition. The founder sold plain ramune tablets from a cart at the riverbank for thirty summers before his daughter redesigned them into firework shapes.

Three things to know

  • Omagari's fireworks competition draws hundreds of thousands of people every August, and the town's whole population is smaller than that.
  • The navy tablets are the rarest in every bag — about one in five — and are considered the 'lucky' burst.
  • Because they're pressed harder than ordinary ramune, a tablet takes about ninety seconds to fully dissolve, roughly the length of a fireworks finale.
Best enjoyed with
Yukata, a paper fan, and the first bang of the night.
Rarity
Seasonal季節限定

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