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Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Celebrating Golden Week at a Festival in Hamamatsu (Japan)

Celebrating Golden Week at a Festival

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.

Golden Week Festival

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

inside a cart

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.

carts waiting

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.

another cart

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

going thru a neighborhood

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

An aerial view (1)

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

An aerial view (2)

more later...