These are some pictres from Nishinomiya's most famous festival - Ebisu-san. There was really good food, and a very mediocre Chinese circus.
Ebisu-san is the god of merchants, and there were abundant amounts of them lining the streets. This was taken right outside the train station about 10 blocks away from the temple where this was taking place. The woman in this picture looks confused...
This is the group I was with. We are back at Nishinomiya-ji, where we also went for New Year's.
Monks blessing the people.
There is a tradition at this festival to have a big tuna and place coins on it.
Street musician playing traditional tunes.
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