Highlight of my recent trip Ito Hokkaido was visiting Esashi festival and the community concert hall and museum to hear some professional and national champions singers who preform each day one of Hok...
We went to Esashi on a cruise ship tour. The town is loaded with history. The Heishi Rock legend and the Kaiyo Maru warship restored after sinking off shore in the 1600's were beautiful and interest...
"Ka-mo-me-e-EE-e-e-e-e!!!" Lose your inhibitions and let your lungs expand at a lesson in the famous Esashi Oiwake folk song. Teachers are on site at the hall to give quick lessons in the skills of vo...
Exhibiting floats used for the oldest summer festival in Hokkaido
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Next to the Esashi Town Hall on the National Highway 228 Line Zoi, which runs through the city of Esashi Town, there was this Esashi Oibun Kaikan and Esashi Yamasha Kaikan. At the Esashi Flower Drive Hall, there was a 2 float used for the Watari Festival of the Hair Daijingu Shrine, which we visited before visiting here. This festival is said to be the oldest summer festival in Hokkaido, which has been going on since 370 years ago.
Vacation
Great traditional singing but more interesting was the carriages used in a local festival and exhibited in the same venur
Esashi Oiwake Song of Hokkaido.
Highlight of my recent trip Ito Hokkaido was visiting Esashi festival and the community concert hall and museum to hear some professional and national champions singers who preform each day one of Hok...
Very different cultural experience
We went to Esashi on a cruise ship tour. The town is loaded with history. The Heishi Rock legend and the Kaiyo Maru warship restored after sinking off shore in the 1600's were beautiful and interest...
Try Oiwake folk song!
"Ka-mo-me-e-EE-e-e-e-e!!!" Lose your inhibitions and let your lungs expand at a lesson in the famous Esashi Oiwake folk song. Teachers are on site at the hall to give quick lessons in the skills of vo...
Exhibiting floats used for the oldest summer festival in Hokkaido
Next to the Esashi Town Hall on the National Highway 228 Line Zoi, which runs through the city of Esashi Town, there was this Esashi Oibun Kaikan and Esashi Yamasha Kaikan. At the Esashi Flower Drive Hall, there was a 2 float used for the Watari Festival of the Hair Daijingu Shrine, which we visited before visiting here. This festival is said to be the oldest summer festival in Hokkaido, which has been going on since 370 years ago.