MIdosuji

 

Every year there is a great parade in Downtown Osaka that runs along Midosuji, the main street, lined with ginko trees. Parades are just parades but this one with its mixture of traditional Japanese things and floats from different countries is amazing.

 

Osaka Women's Motorcyle Police

 

Young women carrying mikoshi shrine from Tenjin Jinja


Illuminated float from Toyohama

 

Illuminated float from Ehime prefecture

 

A Samba float from Brazil

 

Okinawan Esa drummers

 

Dragon from Nagasaki City

 

Osaka elementary school Unicyle drill team. There were lots of unicycle teams

More unicycles

Mino City Hanamikoshi (flower float)

Kagoshima Prefecture decorated horse

 

Hiroshima flower crowns

 

 

The huge illuminated float from Aomori in Northern Japan

 

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Robert Garfias