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More than 2,000 Japanese Americans and performers from Japan participate in this festival in San Francisco’s Japantown that takes place over two consecutive weekends in April, based on the traditional Hanami festival in Japan. The climax of the festival is a three-hour parade from City Hall to the Japan Center at Post and Fillmore Streets. The parade includes singers and dancers, floats, Akita dogs, Taiko drummers, the Cherry Blossom Queen, and the traditional Taru Mikoshi, a portable shrine piled so high with casks of sake that it takes 100 people to carry it. Discuss
Source: The Free Dictionary