Hotel 2135 Aomori
2-13-5 Hashimoto Aomori, Aomori, Tohoku, 030-0823, Japan
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Aomori: Neputa 2
... these floats and they're painted with great attention to detail, even down to the armpit hair of some of the characters. Plus, they're huge and as the people under them zigzag them at full speed toward the audience and spin them above, you feel a little like you might be in danger of being crushed by one wrong move. But that's what the crowd loves--as the floats come over we cheer, as the float zooms towards them and leans over their heads, we gasp ...
Hirosaki: Neputa Festival
... to stop a foot from crushing them.
Like the Hakodate Minato festival, the audience here was pretty laid back. The whole scene reminds of cherry blossom viewing parties—the goal is to stake out a location, lay down a tarp to reserve your space and then spend the evening with friends and family eating and chatting. So as a tourist you walk up and down the parade route and see the really well done (and some not so well done) floats, absorb the ...
Hite Hite
Woke up in Aomori on Tuesday located at the northern tip of Honshu Island at the same latitude as New York. This place is famous for apples, Nebuta - no - Sato (sleeping floats) and the last samarai warrior in Japan.
The great floats represent Japanese legend and myth and our group became certified float operators, which now when we return, we are guaranteed ...
Space A/Airplane Food/Japan
... was more of the same basically except instead of mystery tortilla roll, there was a piece of baguette with a slice of prosciutto and a sliver of red pepper on it.
Right now I'm sitting on base in the "hurry up and wait" terminal. Flying in you could see miles and miles of endless green pastures and rice paddies (though when you got over base, there was the distinct feeling you were in Soviet Ukraine; everything is grey-brown and paved over).
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Lit From Within
... or so, but woke up around... I'm not sure where, perhaps Morioka, when a whole bunch of people got on. I was half asleep, so it only occurred to me as we pulled back onto the highway that my bag might have been in someone's way, but since no one had interrupted my slumber, I figured I was one of the lucky few on the bus who had an extra seat to slump over.
The ride back to Tokyo went smoothly. I think that because my stop wasn't ...


