The second weekend in June was spent with many good friends at Sapporo’s annual Yosokoi festival.
Yosokoi is a kind of Japanese dance. My understanding is the dance was originally made to mimic moves from fishing in Japan, since it was such a major part of life quite a long time ago.
With a few friends in various teams from Hokkaido, we all headed into Sapporo to see what was happening.
On Friday night, E, K and I stayed with N and J, two Sapporo ALTs. Friday night was dinner and mostly general fun hanging out way too late after a day of work. N made peanut chicken for us!
Saturday started with a trip to the Station to pick up a filter for my second camera lens and then a walk to Odori Park where the majority of the festivities were happening.
We weren’t so happy to have the rain start as soon as we got to the festival area.
Even the Power Rangers came out to see the festival.
As of that weekend, Hokkaido is finally beginning to look like summer.
After a few minutes of wandering around, we found a good place to watch the festivities.
Eventually, we needed a break. Most of us are located in pretty rural places, so we headed to a foreigner favorite – Starbucks!
We eventually found the mix and match team. Which included characters such as Stitch, Pikachu and Santa.
Then we started talking about ice cream and of course, our favorite, Mint Crunky. Which we couldn't just talk about, we had to go find.
We ended the day with a stop at the amazing Mexican Restaurant near N & J’s house.
Yosokoi is a kind of Japanese dance. My understanding is the dance was originally made to mimic moves from fishing in Japan, since it was such a major part of life quite a long time ago.
With a few friends in various teams from Hokkaido, we all headed into Sapporo to see what was happening.
On Friday night, E, K and I stayed with N and J, two Sapporo ALTs. Friday night was dinner and mostly general fun hanging out way too late after a day of work. N made peanut chicken for us!
Saturday started with a trip to the Station to pick up a filter for my second camera lens and then a walk to Odori Park where the majority of the festivities were happening.
We weren’t so happy to have the rain start as soon as we got to the festival area.
Even the Power Rangers came out to see the festival.
As of that weekend, Hokkaido is finally beginning to look like summer.
After a few minutes of wandering around, we found a good place to watch the festivities.
Eventually, we needed a break. Most of us are located in pretty rural places, so we headed to a foreigner favorite – Starbucks!
We eventually found the mix and match team. Which included characters such as Stitch, Pikachu and Santa.
Then we started talking about ice cream and of course, our favorite, Mint Crunky. Which we couldn't just talk about, we had to go find.
We ended the day with a stop at the amazing Mexican Restaurant near N & J’s house.
