Today is an holiday in Japan, so yesterday the school organized a day trip in Yanagawa, 50 minutes by train from Fukuoka.
First we started with a boat trip on the river with a great lunch!
So many onigiri!
This was our driver :-)
He was also singing!
a statue along the river
And this boat had some other students
These trees, Yanagi in Japanese are giving their name to this river
On the way there are some shops where you can buy some food, but we had enough!
And this is us on the way!
After that we went to a matsuri, a Japanese carnival.
Here it is me with a Geisha!
And these are the cars that the people are carrying around
On this one you had a god or daemon not so sure
But they are protecting the people
Here some other one
And since this is a shinto festival small kids are wearing shinto priest outfit
I really like these two.
They look mysterious!
Here some small temple
And this is the first time I see this kind. Inside you have some puppets, very strange...
Here you have the people pulling/carrying the car
And this is me doing the same for about 2 kilometers
But since we are a lot doing it this is really ok!
It was great fun to do it for the first time!
At the arrival the people on the char were doing some theater, I think this is kabuki, but not sure...
These are gods
And this one is really nice
And some of the cars have music, this is typical from the matsuri, I let you enjoy!
That day is also a very good day for weddings
So we had the chance to see two of them.
So romantic!!!!
After that I met some of my friend to eat some nabe.
This one is the famous one from Fukuoka, this is with tripes
I really love it and since it was a bit cold in the evening this is very good!
A typhoon was coming, today it is raining a lot!!!!
And to finish the day perfectly a hand made pudding!
