Originally Posted by
Pickles
Decided to go to Kagurazaka today just for a summer stroll, and ran right into the Kagurazaka Matsuri. Everybody in yukata and fans, a complete throwback to hundreds of years ago.
Opening act was 10,000 kids, the oldest no more than 6-7 years old, doing the synchronized awa odori to live fife and drum from Kagurazaka-shita to the top of the hill. They probably had to round up every kid in Japan for that one.
That must have been sooo fun! No pics? My fave is the Koenji Awaodori and as usual, I'll have to miss it (cuz it's ridiculously expensive to get there from SFO in the middle of summer...)
