Festival- Kaijinsai
and Market
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| Numazu Port Festival- Kaijinsai |
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| The Kaijinsai is a combination street festival, parade, country fair, market and family picnic weekend. Corporations and families reserve places along the wharf with canopies and tarps. They picnic, watch races and enjoy all the events. There are canoe and cutter races in the wharf area and yachting on Suruga Bay. Thousands of people mill around all the booths and fish shops, buying clothes, fruits, toys, farm market vegtables and all the fish one could want. Kids can enjoy games with prizes, cotton candy, sweets and a parade. It is a typical Japanese event with colorful pagentry, street dancers, staged entertainment and carried portable shrines (omikoshi). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Corporate tents line the wharf to have a good view of the races. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The covered market is over 1000 feet long filled with small booths of every type. You can buy part of your meal at any of several places, also available are fresh fruits, beverages, snacks and much more. The crowd is so thick that movement is only with the flow. On most mornings this is busy with fisherman selling the daily catch, The wharf is just over the green canopy. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| CUTTER RACE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| A cutter is a 8 person row boat which is raced over a 2000 foot course, Four boats race in a heat against a time clock. They are to row out around a buoy and back. There were 84 registered teams. Many dress in costumes or traditional fisherman's clothes. The fastest teams had a good coxman and rowed in unison. The best time for the day was 1:51.15 (1 minute, 51 and 15 /100th seconds) while the slowest was 7: 38.10. Obviously, some teams took it seriously while others just had fun. The race course had two jet skies towing the cutter to the start line and for safety. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Great food and Market |
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| Fresh wasabi root, its HOT! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cherries $9 a bag (about a pint), bananas $2 for 5 and watermelons $15 a piece. Some fruits are costly. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Would you like an order of grilled squid? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maybe a fresh made crepe with banana and strawberry would taste good. It's only $3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Kids love to fish. At the celebration they can fish for live fish and keep what they catch. They use small bamboo poles and hook up to three fish. The fisherman lands the catch in the yellow basket. Someone else has to clean and cook the fish. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Here is what the real fisherman catch in Suruga Bay. There are shark, sea ray, mackeral, sea bass, tuna, bream, eel and crabs. These are available live, every morning for homes, restaurants and fish markets. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| All day long, different groups parade down the market's main street. There are dance troupes, drummers and shrine carrying teams. The group at left is carrying a large shrine with four dancers as well. The crowds get involved with clapping and dancing too. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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