Festivals in Nagoya and Kasugai; rafting and onsen in Gifu.
October 19th 2008 Last weekend eventful. On Saturday we went to the Nagoya festival and enjoyed the passing parade. All kinds of strange things went by including Miss Goldfish, sword wielding Samurai (one of whom had forgotten to remove his digital watch), some beautifully made-up Geishas and other women wearing assorted traditional dress, flag wavers, dancers, creepy puppet bird things on stilts and of course the
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