So about 20 minutes from my place there is this cool little area of Nagoya known as Osu. Osu on a normal day is a place full of shops and resturants and it tends to attract quite a few tourists, but yesterday, was the Osu summer festival!
What basically happens is there is a couple of events around Osu and metric shit tons of people gather to come see them and eat food out of stalls. It's a really good day out and it has an extremely fun atmosphere that I've never really felt at a big public event before. It's hard to describe but if anyone takes a holiday out here and has the chance, go to a festival, it's fuckin' good!
Anyway, the first thing I came across was a bunch of Taiko players.
It's almost impossible to miss these guys, the sound of these huge drums echoes through the whole of Osu and if you've ever seen people play Taiko before, it's fucking cool! I'll attach a video of these guys at the bottom of the post.
So after walking through the rest of Osu, which was largly business as usual, I reached this
Out here was a bunch of stalls selling various types of food and all for a super cheap price. So after picking up a hot dog we then moved on to to this...
This group of steel drum players were extremely fun to watch, but I felt rather sorry for them because just standing there to watch them in the extreme Japan heat was absolutely killer on me, I hate to think what they were feeling up there bashing away on those drums. But still it was a lot of fun and they were doing a good job of pleasing the crowd to the point where people were just casually dancing around. Also there was a dude running around with a flag of Trinidad and Tobago, so it was nice to see some cultural fusion. There will be another video of these guys at the bottom of the page.
The other big thing that I came across was a Samba Parade. It started just near where the steel drummers were and went through the entire shopping district.
There was plenty of people singing and dancing and there were even people in those cool looking Brazilian parade outfits, but it was almost impossible to get a good view of them at the start because there was just too many people. Instead of boring you with words, I'll post 2 videos of the parade. The first one will give you an idea of the turnout, and the second will be a better view of the parade itself.
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