Kobe Festival

So on Sunday, during which I should have been studying for finals, my Otousan took me to Kobe Matsuri. The last Kobe festival was in 1990 and apparently they have them only every 20 years? (It is a new festival and this was the second one). I've been really lucky this semester that all the once in a lifetime things I was just in time for, Imperial Palace, Himeji-jo, and now Kobe Matsuri. It was a HUGE all-day festival and parade. Thousands of people took over a 6 block area of Kobe's shopping district area, near Sanomiya station. Over the course of the day I discovered it was a multicultural celebration so Japanese-Brazillians and Japanese-Peruvians did some Spanish dancing, lots of Samba dancing. Okinawan dancing, etc. you get the picture. Every food imaginable was being sold and I chose to eat Korean style Okinomiyaki (which I think is just as amazing as Osaka style and easier to make) and a hot dog on a stick. Yes I ate a hotdog on stick. There are just some times where you need American food. Haha

Otousan did his photography thing and I snapped a few shots here and there which I will upload to facebook later today. We watched the parade starting at 11 AM for about 2 hours but we got hungry so we didn't stay in that area to finish watching it. The parade was still going on when we returned home later, we finished watching it on TV around 4:30.

I've been working on a video project (for fun) on all the clips I've taken in Japan this semester. I plan to make a video or series of videos documenting my semester. I'll prob finish those before I come home, so be on the lookout for links on facebook or here on the blog.