Pictures of historic Kumamoto City and the festival they had there.
Total 22 pictures
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I have defeated... the ninja.
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Kumamoto Castle.
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The cops are hired to watch the fish.
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Me and the statue of the gnome... I mean person who built Kumamoto Castle.
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Part of the castle
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Looking at castle through leaves... see, I can be artistic too.
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Another shot of the castle.
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Me at the entrance to the castle (we didn't have time to go in).
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During the day, there was some taiko drumming as part of the festivities.
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Before the parade started, I had my picture taken with this bear. After all, the "kuma" in Kumamoto means bear.
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Apparently this dude is a pretty famous old-school anime character.
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Some of the JET staff to whom I am very grateful (Caroline isn't in the picture, but she helped me a lot too! THANKS!)
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What kind of festival doesn't have squid on a stick?
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Close up of the squid on a stick. I don't think the uncooked ones on the right were for sale, but hey, who knows, it is Japan.
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Two second (or maybe third) year JETs who I watched the festival with.
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Two giant monkeys I think.
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Giant... puffer fish?
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Giant cell phone and girls in pleather.
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Girl dancing with giant cell phone.
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Giant Mushroom? Ok, no more giant stuff, I promise.
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They were not waving at me, this is part of the dance (they played the same song for like 2 hours straight, and it was a short song too).
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If I had to guess, I'd say there were about 200 of these groups dancing. I didn't even see them all.
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