Every year the little town of Yamaga holds the Yamaga Lantern Festival. Hundreds of Japanese women do dances to taiko drums with lanterns on top of their heads.

Here are PHOTOS: http://share.shutterfly.com/osi.jsp?i=EeAN2TNu4asWTrI

Info coming soon!

A few PHOTOS of the first few days (plan to update with more photos soon): http://share.shutterfly.com/osi.jsp?i=EeAN2TNu4asWT0w

PHOTOS of my home stay with my Japanese host family (updated 10/26/04): Leave a comment