Numazu Summer Festival
by mikka
The first day of Teiko's visit coincided with the Numazu Summer Festival. Numazu is usually quite sleepy, so it was a bit surreal to see the downtown transform into a crowd of food stalls and more people than I'd ever seen in the city wearing bright yukata and An-Pan Man masks (above).
Above and below: music outside the station.
The best part of the festival - well, to be honest, the only part of the festival we spent any time at (the rest was spent at the nearly empty Senbon Beach) - was the fireworks over the Kanogawa river. We met up with Yuka and Satoshi to watch from the banks of the river:
above: oooooh
After the fireworks, we walked back down to the Numazu Port for beers at the Taproom, which quickly filled with more festival-goers. From there, we rescued our bikes from Byo-in (we'd had to abandon them in order to hop a taxi and meet up with Yuka and Satoshi on time) and rode back through now-empty streets.
