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 15 May, 2009
Friday Tokyo’s Sanja Matsuri Festival and the 1st Day Traditional Costume Parade
Sanja Matsuri (literally "Three Shrine Festival"), or Sanja Festival, is one of the three great Shinto festivals in Tokyo. It is considered one of the wildest and largest, attracting around 1.5 to 2 million spectators.

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We arrived early enough on the first day to catch the parade up the Nakamise-dori shopping arcade, though this didn't begin until after 2pm.

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Friday Videos : Red Bean Cakes and more on Asakusa’s Nakamise-dori Shopping Street
The Nakamise-dori shopping street in Asakusa has lots of food stalls. We tried out some little red bean cakes, hot off the press. Here's a short video of them being made.



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Friday Asakusa’s Nakamise-dori Traditional Shopping Street - Food and Toys!
We timed our visit to Asakusa to coincide with the three day Sanja Matsuri or the Sanja Festival. Consulting the Wikipedia entry on Sanja Matsuri, we found out that the first day began with a large parade at 1pm.

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Arriving at 12.30pm, the streets of Asakusa were bustling as we made our way towards the closest end of the famed Nakamise-dori shopping arcade street.

Read more... 08 February, 2009
Sunday Post Altar Return Village Meal
Once the altar is returned to the village temple, it seems customary to organise a communal village lunch. A couple of guys are already cooking up some choi (and perhaps some other ingredients underneath) in three large pans, fed by wood burning stoves.

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I've seen photos online of larger pans cooking, but I was still impressed seeing these in real life.

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Sunday The Return of the Altar
The new year festivities in Ting Kok village have almost ended and the altar needs to be returned back up to the village temple at 9am today (three days after being brought down) again, mainly by the men.

The unicorn is brought out and there is a process in performing the custom of returning the altar. I've video-documented what I could, which is shown in the eight clips below. (Note, if a message states that the 'video no longer exists', you may need to just reload the page.)

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