The "Hirosaki Neputa Festival" is a summer festival representing the Tsugaru region designated as an important intangible folk cultural property of the country. During this busy period of agricultural work, a row to pay for drowsiness and laziness We are supposed to be the beginning.

On the first day of the first day from 7 pm, about 40 cars called "fan neptunes" carrying huge fan-shaped decorations walk along the center of Hirosaki city one after another, with a powerful calling "Ya yardo" It went by.

"Fan neptune" is drawn on the front and back of two paintings with contrasting taste, such as a brave warrior painting and a benevolent beauty painting, respectively. In the big ones, the height is 9 There are about meters.

Many tourists visited the roadside, enjoying the festival by watching the "neptunes" passing through one after another, and by including them in the photographs. A Swiss man who visited for sightseeing said, "I felt it was a very festival festival as people on the roadside and those driving Neputa were united."

"Hirosaki Neputa Festival" will be held until the 7th of this month, and 77 "Neputa" will operate in total.