Its summer now, and there is a festival of some sort every 5 minutes or so. We decided to head over to Kyoto for one of the biggest parade type festivals in Japan - the Gion Matsuri. Although quite interesting, it was busy, hot and humid, and after standing around for 4 hours watching as each one passed, everything looked kinda the same. I did have some excitement when I managed to wrangle my way into a hotel overlooking the parade. Actually, there was no wrangling, the hotel staff were too happy to have some unknown person wander around the floors of their hotel.
Check out the album for some photos.
Looks like there is a festival on in Osaka today and tomorrow night... the Tanjin Matsuri. More of the same I suspect, but there are fireworks! There is also another festival where they have similar wooden floats dragged really quickly around the streets. This one sounds more exciting.
Rich
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