2009/09/13

Kichijoji Autumn Festival

This is the weekend of Kichijoji Aki Matsuri (Autumn Festival). I understand that this is the 37th annual of it. I don't know what they did before that.

Nine Mikoshi in total that are carried by some 2,000 volunteer "katsugite" - or carrying-hands move around the town of Kichijoji.
Below photo is actually that of a poster of the same Mikoshi last year. You can tell the enthusiasm of the katsugite.

It is festive and nice, but because of the Mikoshi, the traffic around the town/train station becomes a mess! As it can be seen from the photo below, buses were not leaving on schedule!
Many little booths with food and games are lined up at the local Hachiman Shrine.

2 comments:

その川ポパイ said...

行きました!!

楽しかったです。

nosadawak said...

Nice!!