The day started with us heading Northwards from Hoteiya to Kita-Senju, for a festival where the locals carry portable shrines and streets are closed to vehicles for the huge parade. It seems to be a major event here as there were loads of people around.At the shrine, we found plenty food and Ben & i shared a Okonomiyaki and another potato balls sauteed with butter, mayo, pepper, parsley and salt. The potato balls especially were very good stuff! didn't capture that as we instantly gobbled them down after buyin'!
Then we followed a small team of Uncles doing their thing for the parade.. The portable shrine is slightly smaller than the usual though.
Fortunately we didn't leave early as the main parade was moving around when we were at the shrine. We thought that was all we could see but luckily we roamed around and followed where the crowd was heading to.. And there we got it! The main geist of the festival.Kind and friendly folks gamely posed for photos and invited us to sound the drums too!
More coming up!
Stuart
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