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Hey guys! So we are at Warasse right now.
And Warasse is like a museum type place for the Nebuta festival.
And the festival starts, it goes from August 1st to 7th, I believe. Or 2nd to 7th.
So when you come here, it's probably one of the biggest festivals in Japan.
If you get a chance to see it, it's pretty amazing.
Nabuta festival is believed to have invented in 800's.
Such a long time ago, but during the period, the floats were made out of cloth, bamboo and leaves to scare away enemies during intense battles.
Nowadays, the floats you see here are made from of paper and hand painted.
You can also try on a traditional clothe they have
It kinda reminds me of like Hawaii. I don't know why.
Because it has lots of flowers, maybe.
Usually these floats are based off of old Japanese tales and legends
each one telling a story.
All of the floats are eventually crashed and then torn down after days of work.
Every year, it takes about one whole entire year to make all of these floats.
And all of these floats are based off of this year. So if you look behind me, this was from this year, over there that was from this year.
And the biggest parade has about 33 floats.
This is including medium size floats.
Wow, this is dedication.
The winning float of the year was a story of the Ainu people from Hokkaido.
People who truly lived
This museum has interactive things such as creating your own Nebuta float face or learning how to place a paper on the floats.
This was my creation.
You can also try playing taiko drums as well.
We ate lunch at a donburi fish market.
Donburi is a rice bowl and you can add seafood to it.
They have things like fish, octopus, clams, these weird things and more.
Everything is fresh and so delicious.
I was amazed by the quality.
There's lots of choose from so load up!
We are going to make our own rice bowl with fish and rice and everything.
I'm gonna get my rice first.
You have to buy these tickets. And then you give the ticket to the people at all of the stations.
So all the fish and everything is really fresh.
For one ticket, it's like a small rice but two, it's like a big rice.
I don't know which one I wanna get.
So I got my food. And look how awesome it looks.
So I got shrimp.
I got ika which is squid.
I got crab which is kani.
And then this is salmon and tuna.
And then I think, I forgot what this is.
I'm not sure what that is. It's an another type of fish and egg.
You usually put some say sauce on it.
This is my favorite.
It's really good.
I'm gonna eat the rest of this.
Hey everybody! I'm at Nebuta mura right now.
And it's raining right now but it's still beautiful as I remembered it.
I've been here before and it's a really cool place to see.
You can do lots of like crafts and see a lot of shows and there's a lot of things to look up from Nebuta festivals and museums.
So we are just gonna go and look around to see what we can find.
So let's go!
This museum is similar to Warasse except it's Hirosaki city's own Nebuta festival floats.
This festival takes place from August 1st to 7th around the same time as all of the Aomori Nebuta festival.
This place also houses Hirosaki's treasures with Shamisens and carefully crafted items.
There are also Japanese garden and tea house you can enjoy.
Lots of arts.
I don't think I can draw this or paint this.
You'll need to have a patience to do this.
Shamisen is one of Hirosaki's specialities.
After checking up the Shamisen museum, you can walk through the garden and feed the koi fish.
It's only 100 yen for the food.
There's also a mini toy museum where you can try them up for yourself or buy them.
They are old toys from the past but they are still played with today.
There is even one toy that makes ear-ly sound when you spin it.
There are all kinds of crafts you can do here and sign up for.
I did when I was living in Aomori.
And here's a little picture on the side you can see. I made some chopsticks.
You can make many more things as well. And it's fun for kids and adults.
A lot of pottery here is made from apple ash
which is the burnt ashes from the apple trees.
The only time Nubura mura isn't opened is during the winter so come here anytime before then.
I checked for more places to visit on my Planetyze guide book and we found a beautiful temple just down the way from Nebuta mura.
Saishoin temple is said to have the most beautiful pagoda in a Tohoku region
and represents those who died at the battle during reunification of the Tsugaru district.
It's a very peaceful place and it's all right here in the middle of Hirosaki city.
This temple is great to end the day.
Because it's very peaceful and relaxing. Aomori is so much nicer because the weather is so cool.
It's kinda sad to leave this place.
This is kinda nice.
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