We have the internet at home! Yaaayyyy!!!!
So I have many photos to post, from Kyoto, Kobe, Osaka, Ono, Miki, daily life, the list goes on. For now I will start with some photos from the Ono Matsuri (festival) in mid-August. We spent the day in Osaka, but came back to Ono to see the fireworks and attend the festival. We walked from the train station through downtown and over to the area with the community center and department store. There were many lanterns and banners proclaiming the festival, and tons of traffic, foot, bike, and car.
The festival area was really crowded with people from all over the area, below is a photo of the many food and game vendors. There was also a concert stage.
The main attraction of the festival was the fireworks. I have never seen so many fireworks in my life! The display of explosives was on par with the 4th of July in Chicago, pretty amazing for a town of 50,000 people. My personal favorites were the fireworks that looked like animated characters, as in Hello Kitty fireworks!!! I wasn't fast enough to get photos of those, but you get the idea of what the display was like from the two photos below.
After about a half hour of fireworks, we headed back to the vendor area to sample some takoyaki. This is octopus inside of balls of dough with barbeque sauce and seaweed on top. It's a very popular festival food, and something that one has to try (if only once) while in Japan.
Above and below are photos of the takoyaki stall.
I think Joe's face says it all.... at least we can say we tried them!
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