Misawa Tanabata Festival- Part 3 (Street Food and Games)

Look at the outfits of those 2 girls :-) compared with the old guy on the left LOL




The machine on the left is where you get your ticket, and the prize are the stuffed animals/toys



These sodas are not real sodas they are floating devices :-) or floaty??? (whatever!) , you'll definitely get one of these when you buy a ticket for 500 yen, the grand prize is a huge stuffed animal; the machine ticket is the same as above


Catching gold fish, 500 yen with that little scoop




Catching toy balls



This is how they make tako yaki (tako means octopus)


I don't know the name of this food, but it looks like a hotdog with bones instead of sticks inside hehehe



hamburgers



choco bananas, bananas covered with chocolates



I don't know the name of this food, the toppings are pork



I bought two sticks of these chicken nori or barbecue (that's what I thought) actually they are chicken skins barbecue :-D, 200 yen each stick


friendly Japanese old man selling chicken skins


Misawa Tanabata Festival- this is the last post of the 3 series I posted for Tanabata Festival

Misawa Tanabata Festival- Part 2

Japanese custom- people write their wishes and hang them on this tree



This was along White Pole Road or now the "Main Street"



White Pole Road or the Main Street



Japanese wearing kimono



Japanese dancing "hula" to the tune of ...... (hahaha I forgot the song....sorry)



Those lanterns are like big cherries hehehe



Along the Main Street intersection, off the Misawa AB main gate is the famous "Lalala karaoke bar" and of course the food stalls along the street


Tanabata Festival

This is the second part of my Misawa Tanabata Festival post. This was held last July 24 to 26.
I will be posting the street food next time. Thanks for reading my blog and hope you enjoy, just leave comments.

Misawa Tanabata Festival (Part 1)

Misawa Main Street (popularly known as the WhitePole Road)

The stage for the shows

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Misawa Tanabata Festival


Every year Misawa celebrates the Tanabata Festival outside the Misawa Air Base main gate.
This year the festival was held from July 24 to 26. We went Saturday afternoon and we were fortunate enough that it did not rained. It was drizzling but still we enjoyed the event. The first day of this festival it rained very hard as well as Saturday and Sunday night , a really bad day for some people.

The streets were filled with bright, colorful and decorative streamers and lanterns. There were also a lot of food and toy stalls and children activities such as catching gold fish, target shooting, raffle draws and a lot more. There was also a dance contest and there were Japanese and American performers.

It's summer here (supposed to be), but that day was a bit gloomy and it did rained when we were leaving the place.


According to wikipedia:
Tanabata (七夕, tanabata^?, meaning "Evening of the seventh") is a Japanese star festival, derived from the Chinese star festival, Qi Xi (七夕 "The Night of Sevens")．
It celebrates the meeting of Orihime (Vega) and Hikoboshi (Altair). The Milky Way, a river made from stars that crosses the sky, separates these lovers, and they are allowed to meet only once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month of the lunisolar calendar. The celebration is held at night, once the stars come out.