Ota Festival, Heiwajima Park
This was a nice festival for the kids because there were various little attractions. There were food and shop stalls of course. In addition there was a small petting zoo area where the kids could see sheep, a young calf, goats, hamsters and guinea pigs. Another highlight were skateboard ramps set. Unfortunately, it was a chilly and rainy weekend during the time it was held, but there was still quite a good turnout of people. By the skate ramp area DJs spun some tunes, Bar Ain’t had a stall serving drinks and some food and many families with young kids were there too. A ramp was set up for the older skaters and one smaller version for the youngsters (which I heard are actually permanent fixtures of the park now but I need to find out more details). The little boys were so cute, and pretty good on their little decks!
Keiji was intrigued and insisted we put him up on the ramp, but seeing as he never really rode a skateboard apart from sitting on it and pushing himself across, we advised he not try the ramp just yet. Maybe next year? Hmmm