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