Yanaka Festival and Jingu Fireworks

One of the big summer time fun in Japan is summer festivals and fireworks all over Japan. Of course in Tokyo, the big metropolitan city, we have much fun to do in the summer time. This summer, we enjoyed Yanaka Festival on August 28 Chofu Fireworks on July 23, and Jingu Fireworks on August 1. Festivals and fireworks viewing are the time for men and women to enjoy traditional Japanese yukata fashion.
Yanaka Festival for year 2005 is the big regional festival celebrated only once in three years (other years only the local festivals on each shrine). They start to walk around the local area carrying the minuture shrines and parade floats in the morning. Various food stalls are built along the narrow street towards the major regional shrine of Yanaka which is 800 years old. After thanking for the divine aids locally at each shrine, all the miniture shrines carried by local guys gather at the entrance of approach to the regional shrine and switch to the large miniture shrine which makes appearance only once in three years. When the large shrine is carried over the narrow street toward the major regional shrine, it is full of excitement !!!! Full of people and the summer festival goes to the grand finale!