This one is from about a week ago. We'd been seeing footage of this festival on TV for weeks but couldn't find out any information about when it was happening. Luckily Mika's mum saw a poster near her work and let us know. In the afternoon there was all the normal stalls you have at a city festival. Lots of toffee apples, fairy floss, beer and hot chips. At japanese festivals they always have a stall where you can catch goldfish. Not sure why but it's popular. There was also a tank full of eels that you could pay a couple of hundred yen ($2) and you get to keep it. Japanese people love to eat eel. 
Here's mika at the chocolate fountain. I had beer and chips.
Typical festival, cost 500 yen for a beer.
This is a just a few of the floats from the festival. I think there was around 16 or 18 all up. Basically they run into each other until one of them breaks or someone dies. Apparently someone got caught under one a few years ago and got crushed to death. It's mostly young guys with way too much testosterone and not enough sex getting over excited and trying to hurt each other. Makes for good entertainment though.
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