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<p> Report by Akira Ikoma, a sex journalist, &#8220;How to Walk in Tobita Shinchi 3. In the first part of the report, &#8220;The Miraculous 2 Days of the Summer Festival in Tobita Shinchi&#8221;, we will report on the summer festival in detail. in which we reported on the summer festival in detail. In the second part, we will introduce Tobita Shinchi on the night of the festival and the Matsushima Shinchi festival.</p>
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<p><a href="https://friday.kodansha.co.jp/article/385669"> Part 1: &#8220;Two Days of Miracles that Break the Magic&#8221;: Tobita Shinchi&#8217;s Summer Festival in Full Report!</a></p>
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<h3><span class="strongInContent"> Tobita Shinchi on a midsummer night like a beach resort</span></h3>
<p> It is a popular place. The place is full of people. Tobita Shinchi was bustling with people on the night of July 24, the first day of Osaka&#8217;s summer festival &#8220;Tenjin Matsuri. At 8:15 p.m., the main street and Seishun Street are filled with excited men. The most conspicuous are the group visitors, groups of about five to six people walking in circles or clumps here and there. It was as if they were &#8220;friends who went to the festival and drifted into Tobita Shinchi.</p>
<p> There are also many Chinese and Koreans. They are talking loudly. There were also many Caucasians, not only men but also women. I was surprised to see three blonde-haired white women and two dark-haired Asian women walking together. There were also five beautiful white women coming out of Youth Street. They seemed to be on a tour. I also saw other people from time to time, including a Korean gal and two Chinese women walking around as if they were tourists. There were also a few couples here and there.</p>
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<p> After 9:00 p.m., there were more and more people, and it became a &#8220;festival. I was impressed by the bustle, which was different from that of a daytime summer festival. There is no other entertainment district in Japan today where there are so many people on the streets. Tobita Shinchi is by far the best.</p>
<p> I entered the main street and Seishun Street. Oh no. They are as cute as ever. They are all beautiful women. Compared to spring, there are many women in bikini-like outfits, making it look like a beach resort. It was as if a &#8220;beach full of beautiful women&#8221; had appeared in the middle of Osaka. The women in colorful bikinis on their upper bodies tempted me to come to the front (of the store) and look at them. If I stopped, I would be sucked in.</p>
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<p> I was kept on tenterhooks by a succession of beautiful women, including a woman in a yellow flower-patterned yukata and a slender beauty in a bunny-girl outfit, who looked as good as any idol or actress. There were two women in the blue uniforms of the Japanese national soccer team, perhaps because the men&#8217;s soccer game of the Paris Olympics was to be held at midnight.</p>
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<p>There is probably no more exciting street in Japan than the streets of Tobita Shinchi. The main street is especially attractive, with people entering one after another. Even when they reach the exit near the elevated railway tracks, it is amazing to see them make a U-turn and return. Even after 10:00 a.m., the bustle does not disappear. Tobita Shinchi on festival night was even more crowded than usual, a &#8220;midsummer paradise for men from all over the world. Whether or not they were playing at a ryotei (Japanese-style restaurant), there were always people around. It seems that everyone wants to take advantage of the festival and stretch their wings.</p>
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<p> The night of the next day, the 25th, was also a success, and I could hear the joyful laughter of the men who had come to enjoy themselves. Not only Japanese, but also Chinese, Koreans, Americans, etc., arrive on the main street one after another. There are young men with suitcases in tow. There are also elderly Chinese with loud voices. The street is bustling with people. A large white scooter blasts through the new area. A burgundy sports car whirls around the Shinchi, blaring loud music. It was lively. This is indeed the &#8220;best chon-no-ma town&#8221; in Japan.</p>
<p> The women at the ryotei restaurants were dressed in the same revealing attire as the day before, and it was almost embarrassing to watch. There was a wide variety of cosplay, from blue Chinese dresses to pink cheerleaders. There were women in light colors such as white, pale pink, and light blue yukata, and several women in bikinis on the top half of their bodies and mini denim shorts on the bottom half. There were also women wearing straw hats and swimming suits with red lines on a black background. It was like a fashion show, and it was fun enough just to look at them.</p>
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<p> The main street and Seishun Street are always busy, but when I went around to the back streets, I found that they were completely different and quiet. Both Hyakuban and Wakana streets were almost empty of customers. However, when I peeked into a ryotei (Japanese-style restaurant), I was surprised to find that there were sometimes extremely cute women there. The back streets are a good place to go. I was particularly astonished by the beauty of a woman in a white yukata.</p>
<p> If you want to feel &#8220;cool and refreshing with beautiful women&#8221; in summer, go to Tobita Shinchi. The beautiful ladies of the ryotei restaurants will moisten your dry heart.</p>
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<h3><span class="strongInContent">The summer festival that blends into the community</span><span class="strongInContent"> Matsushima Shinchi</span></h3>
<p> Matsushima Shinchi, the second largest &#8220;chonoma zone&#8221; after Tobita Shinchi, also has its own summer festival. The summer festival of the adjacent Ibarashi-Sumiyoshi Shrine is held on July 22 and 23 every year. A portable shrine, lion dance, turtle drum, and umbrella dance parade through the streets of Kujo, including Matsushima Shinchi, and many stalls line the streets along the way. After the COVID-19 crisis, the festival was cancelled for a number of years due to the difficulty of balancing measures against both infectious diseases and heat stroke, but in 2011, the festival was held for the first time in four years. On July 23rd, I visited this event, which is arguably the most lively of all summer festivals in Nishi Ward.</p>
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<p> During the daytime, portable shrines and drums paraded through the streets of Kujo. In Matsushima Shinchi, children&#8217;s mikoshi (portable shrines) were performed by local children. <span class="strongInContent">The children were shouting, &#8220;Wasshoi, wasshoi!　Wasshoi!</span> wasshoi! Children wearing red and white hats pulled the mikoshi through the Shinchi area. Behind them, mothers and local women walk around with bags full of sweets. These are rewards for the children. Occasionally, there is a break, and people from the ryotei (traditional Japanese restaurants) entertain the children with cold tea and other refreshments. Around noon in Matsushima Shinchi, many ryotei restaurants were not open, but a few stores on the main street were open, and pretty women were smiling.</p>
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<p> The town became even more lively in the evening at 5:00 p.m. The lion dance parade started from Ibarasu Sumiyoshi Shrine. Adults and children, the elderly and babies alike, came out into town to watch the lion dance, umbrella dance, hand dance, and other parades. Grandmothers watch their granddaughters participating in the procession, fathers and mothers take pictures of dancing boys in happi coats, and the entire community comes together to enjoy the festival. The colorful street vendors along the route are a spectacular sight.</p>
<p> The lion dance parade goes from the shopping street to the inside of Matsushima Shinchi, wishing for good health and family safety. It is an exorcism. Some of the women in the ryotei restaurants proudly show their faces to watch, while others half cover their faces with an uchiwa to watch the festival. Some restaurants had curtains down to hide the faces of the two women. Unlike Tobita Shinchi, taking pictures or videos is prohibited in the Shinchi area even during the festival, and a man in a happi coat used a megaphone to loudly announce the &#8220;no pictures&#8221; policy, or held up a board to inform people around him.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent">Osaka&#8217;s famous summer festival Ibarasu Sumiyoshi riot shishi</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> The parade proceeded with the singing and dancing of &#8220;Hyotan korokoro-koma ga ita ita ita ita ita ita ita, ita ita, ita, ita, ita, ita, ita, ita&#8230;&#8221;</span></p>
<p> The procession proceeded with singing and dancing. The ryotei handed over congratulatory gifts and received receipts. The Kujo district was in full swing, and the area around the shrine was packed with people. After the two-hour procession, taiko drums sound and the excitement of the festival night reaches its climax. The procession of happi coats, musical accompaniment, and the sound of bells harmonized well with the ryotei district. The Matsushima Shinchi summer festival was a &#8220;dream moment&#8221; when the &#8220;other world&#8221; became &#8220;another world.</p>
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<p> On that night, the number of visitors to Matsushima Shinchi was smaller than usual. Most of the ryotei restaurants were open, as usual. Some women were dressed up as bunnies, shrine maidens, and kimonos. When I walked in front of the restaurant, an auntie <span class="strongInContent">said, &#8220;Go on up!</span> It was the same as usual.</p>
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<p> Having seen the summer festivals in Tobita-shinchi and Matsushima-shinchi this time, I was impressed that the community has not eliminated the entertainment district in Osaka. Rather than shutting out or hiding the entertainment district from the festivals, which are major local events, they are firmly acknowledged and carefully embraced. The people of the town understand the significance of the ryotei district. What nostalgia they have for the town.</p>
<p> They do not destroy ryotei-gai as a &#8220;bad thing,&#8221; as the governments of Yokohama and Okinawa did in the past when they had large scale chonen-gai. On the contrary, they pray for the prosperity of business at festivals. They are not trying to eliminate or contain it, but are proudly supporting it. This is probably because Tobita Shinchi and Matsushima Shinchi have contributed to the community over the years. The days of the summer festival made me realize the great value of the ryotei district in Osaka.</p>
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 This is a report on the summer festival in Tobita Shinchi by Akira Ikoma, a sex journalist and former editor-in-chief of "Ore no Tabi" (My Trip). In the second part of the report, we will take a look at the excitement of Tobita Shinchi on the night of the festival and the summer festival in Matsushima Shinchi.

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