Saturday was an absolutely beautiful day. They opened up a 7-Eleven a few blocks away so I walked over there to see if it was any closer than the closest combini to my house. It’s about 2 minutes closer and I don’t have to walk up a hill so I’ll be using this shop from now on. After that I walked to a nearby movie theatre to watch Broken Flowers and stopped by a local shrine on the way. There was a small matsuri going on and as you know everyone loves a matsuri. More photos I took with my keitai below:

(1) The plastic fish are a more humane replacement for real goldfish but then what do you do with the plastic fish? (2) They would not let adults play this game. It would be too easy for me to reach over that small space and win the PSP.

(1) The girl who made these chocolate covered bananas was treating them like a pedicure cause each banana was decorated in extreme detail like some toenails I’ve seen (2) Chapuche is a kind of korean yakisoba made from harusame (3) This woman was worse than me at making takoyaki. Some fat guy with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth came over to teach her how to do it. The ashes were falling all over the takoyaki as he talked, yuck!

(1) The shrine. It was small and instead of one big bell hanging at the top of the altar they had 5 small ones which you picked up to ring before praying (2) Most shrines will have another gazebo-like building where they hold performances during a festival. These young drummers weren’t too bad (3) This guy was carefully putting up the names of people who gave donations and I couldn’t help thinking that it would only take one rainy day to destroy all that work (4) The other stone dog. Is it a dog?