My summer vacation 2 "Kochi trip vol.1"

Good morning!
The next is about Kochi trip with my friend!

I went to Kochi on August 9th to 15th.
My father's hometown is also Kochi, so I stayed in Kochi-city with my friend on August 9-10 and go to my father's hometown on August 11-15.
It was great!! I went to Kochi so many times but I rarely go to tourism spot. So maybe this is the first time I climbed the Kochi-castle.
There are many histrical spot in Kochi. I think this is one of the reason I like Kochi.
The most famous one is Sakamoto Ryoma. If you go to Kochi, you can see a lot of "Ryoma" !!

We visited many places and ate delicious Kochi food!

This is Harimaya-Bridge. It is famous as the three major "GAKKARI" spot in Japan.
And we also felt GAKKARI! haha...(better than we thought...!)

Katsura-beach(桂浜). Maybe Ryoma saw the same sight.

The Sasimi of bonito(鰹のたたき). It was so good!

The statue of Ryoma. It was bigger than I thought.

Shirasu-don. Goooood!


However, My true purpose of this trip is...Watch Yosakoi dance!
291 teams were participated this year. They danced through the street of everywhere in Kochi-city with beautiful costume and loud music. This is so big festival in Kochi.

This is my favorite team "Obiya-Machisuzi"↓↓

They all use big truck called "Zikata-sya(地方車)" to play music, and singer and music player on this truck.
I was sooooo excited to watch this team.

Japanese famous actress Ryoko Hirosue is from Kochi, and danced with this team every year.
She appeared 2nd days of this festival, so I wasn't able to watch her.
Actually, She wasn't danced this year. But she is so cute↓↓



Yosakoi festival is so exciting! I can't wait to see next Yosakoi festival !
I suggest you to see this festival one time !


Oooooh...so long...
But I want write more!so please check out my next blog also!

My summer vacation 1 "Volunteer work in Minami Sanriku"

Hey!
So long time no see...!
I was just...enjoy my summer vacation! haha...
I have a lot of things to write!



But first, I have to write about my volunteer work in Miyagi, Minami-Sanriku on August 1 to 4th.
I participated in the volunteer group called "Takarazuka Kibou-Ouentai". They wasn't the student group, so wide range of ages joined this group.

We took 15 hours to reach Minami- Sanriku, and worked 2days to eliminate a lot of garbage.
In Minami-Sanriku, There's nothing there.

Everythings are gone.

We tend to feel that disaster is end. But there wasn't.

It was far away from recovery. There were still a lot of garbage and debris.

Many volunteer people came from anywhere in Japan.

This is free meal(BBQ) for volunteer↓↓

They used Yonezawa beaf ! It was great!

They are so positive. I respect them.

I heared that they want more volumteer.

So If I will have time and chance, I try to go there again.