Japan 96: 1996, web diary
JAPAN96 - a web diary

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An audio-visual diary of our trip to Japan (August to November 1996). The report features impressions from Tokyo, Kyoto, Ishigaki island, Mount Fuji and other sites.

...Taiko drummers at a popular festival during O'bon week... Enoshima... Wooden drums and a shakuhashi flute ... Crickets in the trees of a mountain forest near in Kanagawa-ken... Open air Bunraku performance with narrator and instrumentalist accompanying the puppeteers... Busy streets in Roppongi... Bar-hoppers, announcers and karaoke bars... Mitsukoshi Department Store... Elevator ladies announcing lists of goods available at the different floors... Kabira Village... Megaphone type loudspeakers mounted on 5-meter poles to transmit government announcements and music for the village people... Back in Tokyo... Ueno street festival...