There are some famous events in Asakusa (浅草). Today one of them was held. It is Asakusa Samba Carnival (浅草サンバカーニバル). It is held on the last Saturday of August every year. This was the 29th carnival which started in 1981. It was done from 13:30 to 18:00 and 4,700 people of 19 teams attended. They competed dancing for 800 meters on the main street. It was 30 degrees centigrade there. About 500,000 spectators enjoyed the show.
Asakusa is known as the traditional town with the famous temple. Therefore for the first few years, I felt somehow mismatching feeling. But it became one of the representative summer festivals of Japan.
Official website is as follows though it is written in Japanese:
http://www.asakusa-samba.jp/about.htm
No comments:
Post a Comment