Tanabata

Hello all,

Yesterday and today I went to Tanabata festival in Sendai. This is an absolutely huge festival, with fireworks and a big parade and stuff. The fireworks were fun for a while, but then went on for well over and hour, which is just silly. Today was the huge parade but somehow it completely passed me by. I couldn't find any trace of it.

The whole of Clis Road, the main street of Sendai, was filled with these very cool decorations.

Some of you know about my love for all things Hard Gay. It looks like he got his own decoration:

By far the most impressive were these ones. Today (6th July) is the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. To mark this, some people (I'm not sure who, I couldn't translate that part) built these decorations, which are made up of 1,000,000 tiny origami cranes! They're so miniscule you can't make out the individual cranes in the photo.