Japan : Photo expo and 原宿 by night

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Last week-end the UEC photography club (photo club of my university) was holding a photo exposition in 原宿, see more details here. So I went there with a friend. It wasn't so easy to find and we were a bit lost walking too far away from the site but we finally made it there. The DESIGN-FESTA GELLERY was presenting art from different universities including ours. The pictures, paintings and drawings were exposed on 3 floors. A small room was designed to show a typical traditional and modern Japanese style bedroom with optical effect art (more on optical effect art here). We then had a early night walk in 原宿's streets eating crepes, the local specialty.
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Japan : 江の島 once again, part 1

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Last summer, in August, I already went to visit 江の島, I returned there last Mai with some friends. There was nothing really different to see there except for the flowers and the Eagles. 江の島　is still a very nice place where to spend the day and exercise walking around the island.
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Japan : barbecue in 武蔵野公園

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Last Mai we had a barbecue at the 武蔵野公園 near 野川 river. We started in the late morning, ate a lot of meat and took a walk along the river for a bit until it started to rain. There were lots of people there 武蔵野公園 seems to be famous for family barbecue at that time of the year.
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Japan : 調布のよさこいお祭り

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Today I went to 調布のよさこいお祭り with my friends.　よさこいお祭り　is a dance festival. First there was a parade with several groups dancing then the event finished at the local Shrine with a dance competition.
Rules for the competition are :
1)Participants must use the 鳴子

2) The music must contain a part of Takemasa's original "Yosakoi Naruko Dancing" song, which contains three elements : "Yosakoi-bushi" the melodie, "Yocchore" a children's song, and "Jinma-mo" a folk song from Kōchi Prefecture.
3) The teams must contain less than 150 members.
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