Usual programme is for your group to dress in the same clothes (as you can see in the photo navy blue with a red symbol on the back, can’t read it without seeing the rest) and carry the Mikoshi with pre-decided rest points where the Mikoshi is carefully put onto a stand, while you get drunk, or have a snack, which is usually provided by shops in the area. By the end of a day of doing that you are usually pretty tired, sweaty and drunk, but you get to know everyone (being jammed between people really does bring you closer together…) and its pretty fun.

I’ll stick some stuff on my blog later, got some photos last week I forgot about.