Ryuosai festival

And here's a video. Sorry about the background noise - it's the Ryuokyo waterfall.

Accidents do happen

Riding on a mikoshi:

Falling off a mikoshi:

Mikoshi and me

All dressed up and ready to go:

Listening to the speeches of our dear leaders telling us to behaving ourselves:

And off we go:

In 34 degree heat

They wear all this:

Hairy?

Or not?

One, two, three!

Instead of a cooling pad

a cup of ice cold beer does the trick

The station series continued...

Utsunomiya JR station as seen from the 10th floor of LaLaSquare: