Celebrating Golden Week at a Festival in Hamamatsu (Japan)

Hamamatsu City (in Japan) has a festival each year for Golden Week to celebrate Children's Day (May 3-5). The festival has many different neighborhoods who participate in many parts of the fesitval.



There are 50 different carts from different neighborhoods from all over the City that participate in a parade in the downtown.



There are performers inside them and they are pulled up the streets. These children study and have to learn how to play old traditional songs using traditional instruments.



These carts start in each neighborhood and are dragged to downtown.

As you can see, each cart is very unique and different in design and structure. These carts are waiting in que to go downtown.



Each cart is unique and different in design and structure. This one reminds me of Hamamatsu Castle.



Sometimes the carts just barely fit inbetween the power poles on the streets.



These are a views from from a hotel restaurant (30 floors up). As you can see, the cart is moving along the street.



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