Festival Preparation

During the Sanja Matsuri Festival the three day festival 100 or so mikoshi gather from 44 districts. After being purified at Asakusa Shrine they leave one by one for the Bancho-kai. The area becomes packed with each of the districts' proud mikoshi, the people in an assortment of matsuri costumes as well as all the viewers. Each district spends a good bit of time preparing for the event and close to 2 million people take part.