Click here to watch I've been procrastinating since August with this video, but finally it is done. This one takes a look at several of Aomori's famous summer festivals. The festivals are (in the order you see them in the video) Goshogawara's Tachi Nebuta (or Neputa, still not sure which it is), Aomori City's Nebuta parade featuring hopping JET teachers, Hirosaki's Neputa with big fan-shaped floats and finally the biggest, best and most famous festival of them all... Noheji's Gion Matsuri! This was a tough video to do just because I had so much footage, and it would have been really easy to make a long dull movie like the Nebuta DVD they advertise on TV all the time. Maybe it is just as boring, but you can be the judge of that. For those of you who have never seen a summer festival parade in Japan hopefully this video will give you a little taste of what you're missing out on.
