Name: Tokyo's Most Intense Festival: SANJA Matsuri 東京の強烈な祭り｜三社祭
Uploaded: 2020-10-15T19:21:21.000Z
Duration: 6 min 58 s
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Hey guys! Welcome to the last day of the Sanja Festival!

Future simple

and I will be filming some pretty cool stuff today

It's the last day so the 3 big mikoshi are out

I was here yesterday as well but I only got to see the small shrines

Sanja Matsuri is the biggest festival in Tokyo and is known for getting pretty rowdy!

Neighbourhoods around the temple are separated into teams called "choukai"

Shinto followers believe that mikoshi serve as a vehicle to transport deities between shrines

So everyone fights to try to get in to carry the mikoshi

This is why Sanja Matsuri can get a little intense!

How many years have you been doing the Sanja festival?

What was your most memorable Sanja experience?

I was just sitting, watching and some guy just picked me up and took off his hanten

He put it on me, and pushed me in and I've kinda been in love with it ever since

Why is today considered the climax of the festival?

The day where they bring out the 3 main mikoshi

the three main mikoshi get passed around the areas

Everyone like jumps in, fights to be a part of it

and the day just ends with everyone drinking, it's a great time

Yakuza used to be one of the biggest parts of Sanja matsuri, and this would have been a common sight

But because of recent tightening of rules you won't be seeing many people proudly displaying tattoos anymore

I got the chance to carry one of the three larger main mikoshi

Some of the mikoshi weigh nearly 1000 pounds

Sanja matsuri attracts around 2 million visitors each year.

Definitely an event I would recommend checking out!

Today was your first time participating in the Sanja Matsuri! How was it?

So much fun! I've never done anything like this, even in my hometown

so it's a really exciting first experience for me!

you're being pulled in a thousand directions

and getting pushed around, but it's really fun!

Alright guys, now for the after Sanja meal of dojou or loaches

I think I like the sound of them better in Japanese

We're going to take some and put them on our dish

and add some green onions and some sanshou or "Japanese pepper"

This shop has been around for 200 years! In this exact same spot

They're really good, the name sounds horrible but they're yummy!

Really subtle flavour, I thought they were gonna be super fishy. But not at all!

The festival is finished off with a chant called "kiyari"

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