Mini Takayama Festival

Visiting Takayama with Pearl, an incredible stroke of luck: the Takayama festival, which we've now managed to miss 5 times, put on a special first-time-ever "extra" mini festival on the very weekend we happened to be there. The festival floats (sort of mini-shrines) were out on the streets and were lit up and paraded at night. Monks, children, puppetry and lanterns abounded.