TANABATA DANCING PARADE

Participated in the 57th Noda Tanabata Dancing Parade
from 7:00 to 9:00 in the evening of Aug.2

Members of NIA including foreign exchange students of our home stay program enjoyed dancing in the parade wearing yukata (simple summer kimono). Many people from Kikkoman Co., from City Hall, various women organization, and other citizens were dancing and paraded the main street of the town in yukata.


Everybody was enjoying dancing in Noda samba rhythm.


Guest students with their host families


They look like real father and daughters; but
two girls are from China.


A student from Bangladesh wearing yukata and holding a traditional hand-carry lantern


Along the street, there were many night stalls and booths, and colorful paper decorations for tanabata festival standing tall all the way.