Annual Hachioji Festival In Tokyo Started Yesterday, Look At Various Festival Carts!

Annual Hachioji Festival is being held now between August 5th and 7th! It is one of the major traditional festivals in Tokyo area which people can enjoy seeing Mikoshi (portable shrines) and Dashi (decorated festival carts), typical traditional Japanese festival items as I introduced in my previous post yesterday.

In Hachioji Festival, usually about 20 Dashi carts show up along National Road 20. As I wrote yesterday, Dashi carts joining this Hachioji Festival are maintained by small neighborhood communities called "Chonai-kai".  Then the communities are competing each other in the festival.

Please look at the photo above, I'm showing some of the Dashi carts with the neighborhood community's names. Non of them look same. They also vie in their festival music play and performances on their Dashi carts. 

Seeing competition of Dashi carts is definitely one of the biggest features of the festival! Which design do you like most?