Flower Festival in Itako

I was able to make it out to the city of Itako. It is a beautiful small city that has an annual Flower Festival. Filled with gondolas and rickshaws. The street food was quite good.

On the last day of the Flower Festival they had a gondola filled with musicians. They were playing flutes and drums. Women wore traditional kimonos. It was a unique festival experience.

The people were so nice. A lady sat down and chatted with me in half English half Japanese about the festival as we sampled sweet pickled vegetables. With my fair skin, the sun had already made me very red and she thought I was red from sampling the sake. Hahahaha