Last Friday, a group of us went to Hatagaya for the Higan Matsuri. It a festival where the people of the town carry the gods in the mikoshi 8The house like thing everyone is carrying) around the town, and to the shrine and back, for about 7 hours! They stop every 30 minutes or so for a tea and ber break, but then it's back to carrying the mikoshi again. Everyone is suitably genki, and probably a little drunk, but we all pitched in to carry our district's mikoshi around. There is also a selection of food stalls and carnaval like games near the shrine, my favorite being the food stalls where you play a game of chance to see if you can score more food for the same price. At night, as you can see in the first picture, the lanterns are all lit up on the mikoshi, and everyone helps to carry it to it's final resting place before going to a huge hall to binge on beer and fried food. It was a lot of fun, but I was so tired by the time I finally got back home!
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