Tokasan!

Yookoso, once again! Yesterday was such a blast as we all danced around, prayed in the temples and just got lost within the culture.

Every year, almost each major city hosts a large festival. Not only do they give people an oppurtunity to wear yukatas and jimbeis...

...but to enjoy food, music, and everybody's company!


There! That's what I ate. And I ate a lot of it. It's called Takoyaki, or Samurai Balls as I knew it back then. You do not even know how happy I was when I started eating. It has octupus inside and the sauce is just killer.


After the quick dinner we visited the Shrine. It's one of those things that's sort of a ritual so everybody pretty much flocked the area. I got a glimpse of a priest, continuously tapping the taiko and I think they were also doing some sort of service inside where everybody can just hop in.

Then we went to the horror booth! Hah, everybody knows how much I love Japanese horror so I insisted that we all went in (plus hey, it was part of our "homework" for our Religion class). It wasn't really scary but scary enough for a young japanese kid to almost start crying. I felt really bad! Good thing that dad decided to carry her in as she clung on to his shirt.

There were a lot of "minigames" you can do such as Goldfish catching. Kingyo, as it's called in Japanese.


But we loved dancing so much that we went back and danced some more! That was for about 40 minutes and my feet were hurting in a good way. Here's us!


We are going back there today. The festival lasts for 3 days and there's just so much to do.

Edit:
Alright, yeah we are leaving for Tokasan again - right now - so I need to go! I'm buying souveniers. Later guys!