Every year every major town or city in Japan has a fireworks festival and on Saturday 2nd August it was the turn of Hon-Atsugi.
We didn't visit much during the day, basically a number fo the streets were closed and there were plenty of stalls selling the usual tat and unhealth but tasty food. There were also 2 or 3 places where there was live music - some of it sounded pretty good, some of it was truely dire!
In the evening we headed off to the side of Sagami River where the fireworks were to take place. We had reserved out place earlier in the day - the Japanese are like the Germans - and we grabbed some food on the way. The fireworks were very pretty but as you can see for some of the pictures we had some problems. Unfortunately were we near to the main thoroughfare and people were walking along this the whole time except when the stopped to watch the fireworks of course. The Japanese Police that were patrolling this were as expected a total waste of space, shouting into there loud speakers which no one could hear and doing little else. A number of people were shouting agressively for people to get out of the way, even Emi joined in!
Afterwards we headed home and the police of some reason directed everyone away from the main 15m wide enterance/exit south down the river. When we got there there were thousands of people climbed up the river bank to pass though a 5m gap in the security fence, this was the exit the police had directed us to. To say I was pissed of would be an understatement, I wanted to swing at one fo the police men!
On the Sunday Emi headed off to see her mother so I spent some time playing Grand Theft Auto on PS3. In the afternoon I met up with Jamie to watch "The Happening". Don't bother to watch this film - a good story but the end of the film and the acting, particularly by Makr Walberk was very poor. Also some of the characters were very strange without adding anything to the story line.
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