Latest in the series of Japanese Get a Mac commercials, about new year cards. Cultural note: In Japan, new year postcards are sent as Christmas cards would be sent in the west. The picture invariably contains a reference (non-subtle) to the Chinese Zodiac animal for that year, which in 2007's case is the Boar.
An izakaya food-court in Kochi. Can you imagine?! A food court, where every shop is an izakaya specialising in booze, or food that goes particularly well with booze. Kind of like being in 50 izakaya at the same time, in this instance, with the in-laws.
But not Ikegami Matsuri. Not sure what it was really - lanterns appeared Sunday, and Wednesday when I arrived home from work they were there outside my house. And nowhere else.