On Sunday 10th May, we headed to Akihabara to meet up with Mari and Ryota and go to the Kanda Matsuri (Matsuri=festival, Kanda=an area of Tokyo). People from surrounding neighbourhoods dress up in traditional yukata-style tops and help carry a 'mikoshi' (portable shrine), to the temple to be blessed and bring good luck to the community for the year. Each neighbourhood has their own clothing, Jack was particularly fond of this bunch...
Apprently it's traditional for the guys to have their legs and cheeks out like this!
There were lots of food stalls including this guy making edible models out of sugar...
The shrines are not light (as you'll see in the video), it's quite a wrestle to carry them along, and it got quite fraught at times!
Yes, you could buy a cucumber on a stick. Seeing as it was about 30 degrees that day, it seemed like not a bad idea ( the toppings on it are miso paste and mayonnaise)
There were stalls where you could play games and win prizes. Not really sure what was happening here but it looked cool
You could catch real fish and take them home in a bag, old skool...
Gay bananas...
Gay banana...
Ryota getting stuck in to some octopus
It was our first time for seeing Taiko drumming and it was incredible. If you ever get the chance, definitely go
Apprently it's traditional for the guys to have their legs and cheeks out like this!
There were lots of food stalls including this guy making edible models out of sugar...
The shrines are not light (as you'll see in the video), it's quite a wrestle to carry them along, and it got quite fraught at times!
Yes, you could buy a cucumber on a stick. Seeing as it was about 30 degrees that day, it seemed like not a bad idea ( the toppings on it are miso paste and mayonnaise)
There were stalls where you could play games and win prizes. Not really sure what was happening here but it looked cool
You could catch real fish and take them home in a bag, old skool...
Gay bananas...
Gay banana...
Ryota getting stuck in to some octopus
It was our first time for seeing Taiko drumming and it was incredible. If you ever get the chance, definitely go
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