On the final weekend of October every year, there's a big food festival held close to Hamamatsu Castle Park. There are stands serving hot meals and selling locally produced foods like cookies, jams and tea, and stages with a wide range of different performances. I saw live calligraphy, two troupes of taiko drummers, volleyball players, and if I'd stayed around I'd have seen a play about Tokugawa Ieyasu's daughters.
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Hamamatsu Autumn Food Festival
Lots of food, lots of performances, lots of fun!

By Peter Sidell
Community writer

Ready to go on stage as Tokugawa Ieyasu's daughters

A big bouncy Ieyasu for kids

Taiko drummers giving it some energy

Some of the stands selling hot food and drinks

This was all in Japanese so I don't know what was going on

There were a number of cute mascots wandering around, who must have been really hot

More taiko drummers

There was a large canopy so we could have our food and drinks in some shade

More stands selling food and drinks

After the drummers there was some live calligraphy

Hamamatsu Castle and Tokugawa Ieyasu

Cookies and sweets to buy and take home with you
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Yui Yamaguchi
10 years ago
I enjoyed your explanation of some photos.
Thank you Yui! I had a fun time at the food festival, and I'm glad you enjoyed what I wrote :)
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