More to Northern Japan

Post by **gaijin** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 7:42 am

R4R&R · Post by **R4R&R** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 10:50 am

Thanks for sharing the beautiful pictures!

1150929 · Post by **1150929** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 10:08 pm

Wow, that's beautiful....the things I'd do and see with an unlimited budget and time...

Post by **iowabeakster** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 10:46 pm

Excellent, thank you.

What kind of festival is that? What is the woman doing in the last photo?

Post by **DJ Downunder** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 12:09 am

Very nice..

..Great pictures...Did you see any Ninja's?

I've heard they are very hard to see.. http://www.theonion.com/content/video/n ... rough_town

DJ

Post by **gaijin** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 3:15 am

To answer your question:

I would say "just blow off steam festival". Rice planting is over, kids out of school, street vendors need some money, let us have festival. Another way of getting people like me to visit and spend my hard earned money. This is similar to country fair in US.

Each area of the country created their own costume and style of dancing with local folk songs to represent the area.

Guys!! Japanese love to eat , drink and do not let the cute little women fool you. They can drink too. Ha!Ha!

iowabeakster wrote:Excellent, thank you.

What kind of festival is that? What is the woman doing in the last photo?

Post by **Beemeridian** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 8:38 am

Post by **towerworker** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:05 pm

Wonderful photos- thanks for sharing and posting!

I have copied them all to my computer here at work and they play in a slideshow along with all the others I have stored on here.

Wayne

Post by **jarobi** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 9:54 am

Awesome! Any pics of the Oirase gorge or Lake Towada? It's been over a decade since I was there. I've been to the Nebuta & Towada festivals. That lake is one of the most beautiful scenes in the world IMO.

Post by **gaijin** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 5:42 am

Lake Towada:

jarobi wrote:Awesome! Any pics of the Oirase gorge or Lake Towada? It's been over a decade since I was there. I've been to the Nebuta & Towada festivals. That lake is one of the most beautiful scenes in the world IMO.