Drive around Hiroshima pref, part1: Country style Festival

We were driving from Hiroshima to Fukuoka with our newly purchased RV named Billie Bee and stopped for the night at a hotspring village called Sera. Thus we happened upon this small scale matsuri, a thanksgiving type event with ceremonial dances and a procession. We hung around in the morning and watched the preparations and some rituals at a shrine in the woods.

A portable shrine being decorated

The priest in his finery of woven silk robes

Maiko-san