Adventures in Japan

Last Weekend

This weekend is Summer Sonic. Next week is my week off. Next weekend is some kind of anniversary or another, and we are also going to Comic Ket in Tokyo. This past weekend was the Yodogawa fireworks. So that is were we went.

We grabbed the train to a station somewhere near the fireworks site. This is what greeted us there.



That's a whole lot of people waiting to leave the station. We waited with those people and then walked with those people towards the river. Gawa means river. Yodogawa. That's your Japanese lesson for the week. There were a lot of people all along the river. A lot. I've heard that around a million people usually make it out to this thing.

Here is a picture of just a small fraction of those people.



Just imagine that going on for a few kilometers on each side of the river. It was nuts. Here's another picture.



That's it for the pictures. Pictures of fireworks never turn out all that great anyways. Here is a video instead.



Sorry about the quality of the video, it was taken with my digital camera that is a few years old. But you get the idea. That went on for an hour or so, pausing only long enough to let the smoke blow away. And everywhere was people and food. Nuts.

After that, we went into Namba and saw Transformers. An evening of sound and fury.

After that we went to a small rock club. It was very loud.