Matsuri III

Kokura Gion

At a shrine some sort of ceremony takes place:




Loud drums, cymbals and chanting

Chocobananas decorated nicely to attract the masses:

Tobata Gion

Sparing you guys the stalls we'll go straight to the main event, the parade!

They went around in circles

Before they changed the float to:

The one on the left almost fell over

Matsuri II !!!

Matsuri II

The second festival i went to was fireworks at Wakamatsu, the suburb next to where we live. Unfortunately my friend finished uni late so there wasn't time to put on a yukata =S. We took a ferry from Tobata to Wakamatsu:The red bridge at Tobata - apparently K-dawg helped design it:
Police in our prefecture look like:
I prefer NSW police uniform =P

Don't ask me why that guy is wearing a pink guys yukata (there were two of them). You can just see Satoko - we went to the festival together.
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Festival food only found in Kyushu - Hashimeki? Japanese pancake on chopsticks:

Goldfish fishing with a thin piece of paper!!! i didn't get any on my first go ^^.
Pretty girls in pretty yukata ^^

A snippet of the pretty hanabi (fireworks)

The goldfish i got for trying lol:

Third festival is called Kokura Gion Festival...keep a look out!