Showing posts with label festival & event. Show all posts
Showing posts with label festival & event. Show all posts

2017/03/30

Country Farm Tokyo German Village (Chiba)

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Country Farm Tokyo German Village is a theme park with about 270,000 ㎡ area, located in Sodegaura city, Chiba prefecture.

The illumination in winter is well known. It's said to be one of the best three illuminations in Kantou.

View from Ferris wheel




















video (6 min 26 sec) 

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2017/03/13

Ryujinkyo Carp Streamer Festival (Ibaraki)

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Ryujinkyo Carp Streamer Festival is annually held at the Ryu-jin suspension bridge located in Hitachiota-city, Ibaraki prefecture.

The Ryujin suspension bridge is a pedestrian bridge with 375m length and 100m height above Lake Ryujin.

Carp streamers are hanging on two wire ropes between both banks of V-shaped valley.


Ryujin River flowing through Ryujin-kyo or Ryujin gorge.

Here are 1,000 donated carp streamers now.


Ryujin dam can be seen under the carp streamers.

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2017/03/05

JASDF Iruma Air Show (Saitama)

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Iruma Air Base, located in both Sayama city and Iruma city, Saitama prefecture, is the largest base of JASDF with 18 units and 4,300 members.

Iruma Air Show is held annually in 3rd November from 1962.

There seems to be more than 200,000 people.  Aircraft lined up in the distance are Blue Impulse, the aerobatics demonstration team.

Symbol colors of the Blue Impulse are white and blue.

3rd-generation model of Blue Impulse is T-4.     6 aircraft formation

Maximum speed;Mach 0.9, practical upper limit;15,000 m, maximum cruising distance;1,300 km.

The formal name of Blue Impulse is 11 squadron 4th Air Wing in Matsushima Air Base in Miyagi prefecture.


T-400   Trainer aircraft, a class of aircraft to facilitate flight training of pilots and aircrews.

E-2C    Airborne early-warning aircraft

U-4  Multi-purpose support aircraft

YS-11FC      Flight Inspection Aircraft

T-4      Subsonic intermediate jet trainer aircraft

The same model as Blue Impulse



C-130H    Military transport aircraft

P-3C     Anti-submarine patrol aircraft

T-7   Primary trainer aircraft


F-2B    Multirole fighter

RF-4E     Reconnaissance aircraft

F-2    Multirole fighter

C-1     Military transport aircraft


OH-1    Scout/observation helicopter

CH-47J        Transport helicopter


UH-60J     Search and rescue helicopter

Missile launcher

Radar for guiding missiles toward targets

The aerobatics by Blue Impulse


video (2 min 39 sec)       The aerobatics by Blue Impulse

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