Asakusa Samba Festival on Aug 29th

It was so crowded in Asakusa, but was lot of fun. We have large Brazilian population in Japan, and the Samba Festival was huge and continued for several hours. This picture is the Samba poll dancers on moving float. This is famous Kaminari-mon (thunder gate) in Asakusa. There were too many people and we couldn't even move. We find a Japanese pub on the 5th floor of building on the main parade street, and decided to watch parade from the pub.










I look this picture from the pub window, but the pictures didn't come out good because the windows had wires. However, the location of the pub was in front of the judge's tent, and all dancers were showing off.

My friend risked his life to open the emergency escape window in the pub to take this picture. Floats and samba dancers move quickly, so it was really hard to take good photos.