Sakae Matsuri

My friend from work, Ayumi, took me to a Summer Festival in Sakae in Nagoya this past weekend. To make the event more exciting she found a yukata for me to barrow and had her Mother In Law dress us for the event. It was am an amazing opportunity to attend a festival in authentic attire, but I learned that yukatas are designed strictly for straight figures and are deceptively tight and uncomfortable.

There was plenty of mysterious fried foods for sale, but bound by the Obi I had no appetite.


The highlight of the festival was a parade, it began with several school marching bands...


And continued with groups of dancers