Since it’s summer, it’s the matsuri, festival season all over Japan.
There’s many type of festival from very big to very small, located in temples or shrine or simply in shopping street.
Last weekend, it was the festival of a shopping street in my neighborhood.
During two days, the traffic was close on Nabeya Yokocho shopping street in Nakano Ward in Tokyo, to let the people enjoy the festival mood.
Many shops of Nabeyaki, the surname of the street, had stalls and were selling various things and foods to visitor. Since it’s a small scale neighborhood festival, the public was mainly families living there.
There was plenty of traditional festival food !
First kakigori, shaved ice topped with sirup, very refreshing in summer.
I chose green apple syrup, but you can have green tea, strawberry, lemon and many others as well.
How about some grilled clams or the famous yaki-ika, grilled squid ?
For sure there was some chilled cucumbers, yakitori, grilled chicken skewers, as well a okonomiyaki, sort of pancake made with cabbage, sauce, and various toppings.
Yakisoba, fried noodles, is the most basic japanese festival food and is appreciated by everyone !
Among sweets, there was plenty of ice-cream.
Cotton candy stall was very popular among children !
Kids loves choco-banana too !
One of my favorite japanese sweet shop was also selling dango (rice dumpling with sweet sauce) and many other things. I had some warabi mochi topped with kinako, grilled soy powder.
Don’t forget to throw your trash in the right can to keep the city clean !
Nabeyaki yokocho is a shopping street located in Nakano ward in Tokyo, in front of the subway station Shin-nakano on the Marunouchi line.
The festival is held the first weekend of august.
Did you ever go to a japanese festival ?
Which is your favorite festival food ?
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