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- Japan
- (culture • dashi • Ehime • festivals • fight festivals • floats • kenka matsuri • Niihama • Niihama Taiko Festival)
- Japan
- (chimaki • COK • culture • Egawa Tasuku • festivals • floats • Gion • Gion Festival • Gion Matsuri • Kyoto • SNJO • sweets • tradition • travel)
McDonald’s Japan doubles down on cherry blossom season with new cherry soda and float
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Casey Baseel
Mar 7, 2017
- Japan
- (cherries • cherry blossoms • drinks • fast food • floats • McDonald's • sakura • soda • soft drinks • spring)
Another festival season and summer is coming to an end. The dragonflies are out and the days are getting shorter, which means fall will soon be upon us.
But before the fireworks fizzle away and the festival food stalls have packed up for good this year, one area in Japan decided to go out with a bang and surprise festival-goers with superb portable shrine, or mikoshi, recreations of some of Japan’s most popular characters, including one famous red mobile suit from the anime classic Gundam.
- Japan
- (anime • festivals • floats • Japanese tradition • mikoshi • Mobile Suit Gundam • Shiobara Onsen • Tochigi Prefecture • Zaku)
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