I am taking a walking tour of the Saga castle. The castle's floor was composed of entirely Tatami mats and one walks barefoot throughout the tour.
After eating dinner, we saw a large plume of black smoke in the distance. We followed it to a baseball diamond in which hundred of high school boys were singing songs in unison and beating large taiko drums around a bonfire. The walls to the field were lined with Japanese high school girls trying to watch. We asked this group in the photo what was going on (High school students and businessmen have the best chance of knowing English). Apparently there was a large men's track and field event going on the next day with a rival school and this was the Japanese version of a pep rally. After the songs were done, more fuel was added to the fire and the boys ran around and sang until the sun set.
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