Fukuoka Festival

The Hakata Dontaku is a Japanese festival held in Fukuoka, Japan every year in May. It has the largest attendance of any Japanese festival. This festival coincides with the Korean national holiday Children's Day, so I am thinking about going back for a few days to enjoy this event. I am particularly interested in hearing the traditional music and dance performances.

For example, play this fantastic video compilation of the event and crank up the volume. The music on this video, recorded from the event is wicked cool!



By the way, the way the girl on the left and the boy on the right are dressed is called Ganguro and is common to see among youth in everyday life in Japan.