Suwa Shrine Festival

Yesterday, we went to the Suwa Shrine festival in Yokosuka. The festival was situated on Blue Street (at least that is what the Americans call it). Blue Street is the main tourist area of downtown Yokosuka. The festival had temporary food and merchandise stands that lined the entire length of Blue Street to the Yokosuka Chuo train station.  The big event for the night was the carrying of a float by several teams followed by a wagon that had people playing drums, flutes and even something that looked like a sitar.

Squid - very popular item in Japan.

Dumplings - can be prepared it a variety of flavors (notice the purple things - more squids).

Shooting gallery - just like at a county fair back home.

Andrea was determined to try the dumplings. 

This stand made bubble tea - something Andrea became obsessed with back in Texas.

Up close picture of another squid stand.

This picture didn't turn out very well but the bags are filled with 
things that have the same look, feel and texture of pork rinds.
Because they looked so good, Mona wanted so much to like these chips.
Unfortunately, they tasted very fishy - probably had squid in them.

This looked really good, boiled/steamed potatoes - notice all the fixings you can put on them.

Macie like the bananas dipped in chocolate and covered with sprinkles.

This lady was quite the showman. She couldn't speak English but got the kids to play rock,
paper or scissors. She was selling slices of pineapples on a stick for 300 yen each. If you
won the game, she would give you two sticks of pineapples. Very cute.

Again the picture isn't very good - but it shows how crowed the sidewalks were.
But we never really felt pushed or crowded by anyone

The next couple of pictures show variations on items you see a lot in Japan. 

I told Mona that these were the Japanese version of Indian Tacos that we eat in Oklahoma.

Hopefully, this video will play on your devices. It shows the teams carrying the float down the street.