The festival was arranged in the tempel area in Kawasaki daishi and on the open space in front of the tempel there was traditional dancing by a group of women.
All japanese tempels have the place for washing hands and mouth to prepare for entering the tempel.
The thing that has given this festival its name is the wind charm that is being sold in thousands of different models - made of glass, china or metal. Here is some models made of painted glass. We got one with us back made of metal so now there is a constant ping-ping(!) sound coming from the balcony.
All festivals include the typical fast food restaurants where you can get grilled chicken, pancakes or other traditional food.
And we got to meet the japanese "grännapojkarna" chopping up what would best be described as a kind of polkagrisar made of rice. Sounds awkward but was indeed very tasty candy.
To finish off the day we continued down to Yokohama with Eric and Caroline to meet up with Paul at a beer garden located on the roof of a 10 storage tall department building. Nice feeling to be outside in a garden located high up and surrounded by tall buildings.
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