The Coolest Festival in Japan! Kanazawa Hyakumangoku Festival and Parade

This year we went to the annual Kanazawa Hyakumangoku parade! We had a ball. The Hyakumangoku Festival [百万石祭] in Kanazawa is Ishikawa’s biggest festival of the year, and takes place over three days with a number of events - this being the main event of the weekend and takes place on a Saturday. We got to join the Seiryo University [星稜大学] Dance Group in the late afternoon/evening parade - how cool was that?! #foreignerinjapan , #japan , #japaneseculture , #ishikawa , #japanlife , #japantravel , #japanfestival , #星陵大学 , #hyakumangoku , #kanazawa , #japanesedrums , #japanesedrum Chapters 00:00 Intro and Drum Troupe [太鼓] Performance 04:44 Hyakumangoku Parade - Lion (Dragon?) Slayers Fighting 05:35 Samurai’s Horses 06:10 Japanese Lion Dance and “Fighting the Dragon“ 07:51 Kanazawa Hirosaka Park 08:48 Hyakumangoku Parade - Lion Dancers and a Close Encounter!