Started off the day with a fiery Japanese breakfast.

Then found myself changing trains in Tokushima City, just as they were having their famous “Awa Odori” festival. This is early in the morning so people are quite sober and co-ordinated. They continue like this during the day, drinking more and more beer and sake, until everyone falls down by late evening! (I speak from past experience here)

As the saying goes, you see something strange and interesting here every day.

P.S. this is what they were practising in the woods the other day.