Day Twenty Two

Today I went to see the floats that they use for the Takayama festival - which I missed by a day, how annoying is that? There are currently four on display at Takayama Matsuri Yatai Kaikan and they get changed throughout the year. The whole place was really nice and there was so much information on offer - I was given a tape recorder to listen to which had information about each float and I found it really interesting. For example, if it rains they can't use the big floats and have to use