Atsuko. Here is a share of Hitoyoshi’s sky Lantern Festival.
I am from the northern part of the prefecture, so I don’t often go to the southern part of the prefecture, but I was very interested in this Lantern Festival and went there for the first time tonight.
It was fun and beautiful with lots of lanterns flying around. But it was very cold. It was so cold that I went to a nearby hot spring to warm up. Today was the Hitoyoshi Onsen Festival, so I could enter for only 200 yen for adults. It is very slippery.
We also bought a cup of Kuma shochu for 200 yen. I forgot to take a picture of it, so I took a poster of Kuma shochu.
Aoi Shrine was lit up and looked beautiful.
I was surprised to find some venison sprinkles at a nearby Yumemart. It is indeed Hitoyoshi.