31st Kashiwa Festival

This weekend, July 26th and 27th, Kashiwa City will see its 31st annual festival. From 2 to 9 pm each day of the festival, you can catch the festival dance, bearing of the portable shrines, ladies in kimono dancing in formation, drunken louts dancing in disarray, amd drumming both Japanese and African. Pokaraiyo on Kashiwa’s [...]

Another Kashiwa, another time

At the Kashiwa City Hall the afternoon I registered as a resident four years ago, I picked up a handful of local publications including a map of Kashiwa’s cultural properties, produced by the city’s Board of Education. Over the last few years, I’ve had a chance to wander about Kashiwa by bicycle, often getting lost [...]