Nakazato Market Street Festival / 中里商店街祭り

First, a short video clip of the market street festival atmosphere.

最初は祭りの雰囲気の動画。

Yep, a lot busier than our recent neighborhood festival. And there were more things for kids to do and a larger stage for a variety of performers. In fact, my wife works along this street at the neighborhood 7-11. This is also near our friend 21Ban's house (and yes, that is a nickname of course).

うちの若近くの林商店街の祭りより賑やかですね。しょぼくないところが良いかも。子供たちの為にいろんな遊び場がありました、スーパーボールすくいだけじゃなく、ちゃんと金魚すくいもありました。美香子もこの商店街のコンビニでバイトをしてます。ここも友達の２１番（あだ名に決まってるでしょう）の家がこの近所にあります。

And we all know that street festival means street food and beer!

夏祭りと言えば屋台料理やビールでしょう。

Cheers!

乾杯！

And lets not forget the kids.　　子供も忘れずに。

And now the food.　　次は食べ物

A must eat item at any Japanese festival.

祭りの定番メニュー焼きそば

Fried fish on a stick. Mikako ate the best parts and left the rest for me - it was bitter and awful!

塩焼きの鮎。美香子が美味しいところたけを食べて、残りは僕に‐残りの分は凄く苦くて、超まずかった。

This was being sold as a ham steak but no matter how you look at it, it's Spam-on-a-Stick!　I had to eat it!

これはハムステーキで売れてたけどどう見てもスパム串ですよ。でも食べた！

There's also an Indian restaurant along this street, so we had to eat some Indian food as well.

商店街にインド料理店もあり、もちろんインド料理も食べました

And we washed down the Indian food with Indian beer.

インド料理を食べながら、インドビールを飲みました。

We were at the festival for no more than a half-hour. We then went on a little food and beer buying spree and had an impromptu house party at 21Ban's, but I'll leave that for another post (along with more pictures of Rino-chan).

祭りに居た時間は３０分程度で、そのあと、２１番の家に行って、ハウスパーティーになった感じです。でもそれはまた別ポストで話しますね （梨乃ちゃんの最新写真もアップします。）