16.Oct.2011 I LOVE KOFU
Here’s a video I took of the dancing at the end of the I Love Kofu Festival 2011
30.Sep.2011 FUJIYOSHIDA FIRE FESTIVAL 2011
Ok the pics are a little old now, but hey it’s better late than never! Here are some iPhone pics from when I hit up the Fuji Fire Festival with my buddy Brian. The festival is held every year at the end of the official climbing season. This year there was an insane amount of [...]
12.Oct.2010 NISHIJIMA FESTIVAL 2010
A short clip of random footage from the 2010 Nishijima Festival. Nishijima is at the top end of Minobu in Yamanashi prefecture. This 3 mins pretty much sums up what happens the whole day/night. The only thing that’s missing is the fireworks, which we completely forgot about and went home and drank! (and for those [...]
07.Oct.2010 NISHIJIMA FESTIVAL ’09
This weekend I have my in-laws’ town’s local harvest/thanksgiving festival. I caught some of it last year but I didn’t have a camera on me so I just took pics with my phone. Basically the festival involves groups from different parts of the town drinking and carrying around mikoshi (portable shrines) while chanting. They also [...]
20.Aug.2010 AKENO SUNFLOWER FESTIVAL
As far as flowers go, most people outside of Japan would probably only associate Japan with Cherry Blossoms, but every summer there are sunflowers all over the place. One of the things that surprised me on my first summer visit to Japan was just how many sunflowers are around, not just in peoples gardens or [...]
10.Aug.2010 HANABI!
On Saturday in Ichikawa Daimon we had the 22nd annual Shinmei Fireworks Festival. This festival is the largest of its kind in Yamanashi. I highly recommend it for anybody living in, or passing through Yamanashi. Unlike many countries fireworks are not just restricted to special holidays/events. In fact fireworks festivals are a fixture of the [...]