Yosakoi Matsuri
Yosakoi Matsuri
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Brightly colored costumes and amazing feats of dance: The Yosakoi Festival sees dozen of troupes and hundreds of dancers take to the street with floats and fanfare to features traditional moves alongside more modern scores in a high-energy show. Dancers use the traditional 'naruko' clappers (a wooden hand instrument), and include a part of the original "Yosakoi Naruko" song in their routines, which take months to design and learn. Squads can be up to 150 members large, and the dances; often choreographed by locals; are performed over and over again on the street in parade style-- wearing only tabi socks! Yosakoi is always a visual feast.
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Deborah D
New York City, NY3 contributions
Aug 2017 • Friends
Very friendly people! Easy to get around with great affordable hotels.
I stayed at Super Hotel and what a great staff!
Breakfast was good. As a first time visitor, I was warned about the space at the Japanese hotels. this is true, but please do not let that ruin your visit. Not your typical breakfast at the Super Hotel, it's traditional Japanese cuisine. I enjoyed it because of the long and humid days of August. I participated in the Kochi Festival and I was so honored. My costume was not the best fit but hey, I had fun. I have the outmost respect to all the dancers who also participated in this event. Much respect! visit Kochi, you'll definitely enjoy!
I stayed at Super Hotel and what a great staff!
Breakfast was good. As a first time visitor, I was warned about the space at the Japanese hotels. this is true, but please do not let that ruin your visit. Not your typical breakfast at the Super Hotel, it's traditional Japanese cuisine. I enjoyed it because of the long and humid days of August. I participated in the Kochi Festival and I was so honored. My costume was not the best fit but hey, I had fun. I have the outmost respect to all the dancers who also participated in this event. Much respect! visit Kochi, you'll definitely enjoy!
Written September 1, 2017
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Fuzzybeanerizer
Hancock, MI47 contributions
Aug 2019
I took my 6 year old daughter to the yosakoi festival in August 2019 and while she may have been slightly overwhelmed by the whole trip at that age, we certainly had a great time. The dancers are so energetic! The whole city was alive with them, with team after team dancing past, and others running back and forth from one venue to another, despite the temperatures near 90 degrees F every day and plenty of humidity. At home I'd be huddled indoors by an air conditioner in such weather, but in Japan the energy was contagious and I had no problems hoofing around the city for hours on end. I sure sweated out a lot of liquids, though.
If you are not familiar with the yosakoi dancing, these huge teams of dancers from all over Japan come to Kochi City. They have these big trucks with powerful loudspeakers and DJ's aboard, and usually pretty girls too, and sometimes live musicians.The trucks crawl down the city streets with the dance teams following behind. The music is so loud you can definitely feel it booming through your body, though it seemed much less hard on the ears than I remember from 15 years before... maybe they have shifted to lower sound frequencies? The dance teams and their music vary from modern styles, perhaps hip-hop influenced or whatever, to more tradional Japanese sounds and costumes. Many of the teams have these muscular guys taking turns waving HUGE flags around and around. The whole event is really colorful and loaded with beautiful people of both sexes.
If you are not familiar with the yosakoi dancing, these huge teams of dancers from all over Japan come to Kochi City. They have these big trucks with powerful loudspeakers and DJ's aboard, and usually pretty girls too, and sometimes live musicians.The trucks crawl down the city streets with the dance teams following behind. The music is so loud you can definitely feel it booming through your body, though it seemed much less hard on the ears than I remember from 15 years before... maybe they have shifted to lower sound frequencies? The dance teams and their music vary from modern styles, perhaps hip-hop influenced or whatever, to more tradional Japanese sounds and costumes. Many of the teams have these muscular guys taking turns waving HUGE flags around and around. The whole event is really colorful and loaded with beautiful people of both sexes.
Written December 30, 2019
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Yuki
Kochi, Japan688 contributions
Aug 2018 • Friends
This is one of my recommended festival in Japan!
You can enjoy music, dance, dress, etc. All teams have different styles, so you never tire to watch them!!!
You can enjoy music, dance, dress, etc. All teams have different styles, so you never tire to watch them!!!
Written March 11, 2019
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Hi Sloyuki
We would like to visit Kochi during the Kochi fastival . Can you let us know which area of the hotel should we stay ?
Written May 18, 2019
If it’s possible, kochi city is the best area to stay, but I don’t think they still have enough rooms because of full reservations.
Nankoku city and Tosa city or Ino town are not far from kochi city and you can take transportation to get in kochi city.
I think they’re cheaper than kochi city hotel.
YOSAKOI dance is starting from 12:00 to 21:00 or some places finish 20:00.
If you can get there before 12:00, you can stay Nankoku, Tosa city or Ino town are fine!
If you have any other questions, please let me know. I think I can help you about kochi!!!
Written May 18, 2019
We will be arriving Aug. 12 on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship and wish to attend the festival. How can we obtain transportation from the boat both to and from the event?
Written July 7, 2016
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