{"id":893,"date":"2018-06-17T15:57:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T15:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomascots.com\/?p=893"},"modified":"2018-06-17T15:57:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T15:57:22","slug":"gotouchi-character-festival-in-sumida-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/17\/gotouchi-character-festival-in-sumida-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Gotouchi-Character Festival in Sumida 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each year an army of fuzzy mascots from all over Japan gather for Tokyo’s largest yuru-chara event, “The Gotouchi-Character Festival in Sumida”. Held in the last weekend of May at the base of Japan’s tallest structure, the towering Tokyo Sky Tree, the festival was tons of fun. Here are some of the pictures I took there:<\/p>\n

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Mori-ken, the mascot of Moriya City in Ibaraki, is a dog dressed as a frog.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Inappy rocks out.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Chicchai Ossan and a vending machine<\/p><\/div>\n

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Kiibou and Gibo-chan<\/p><\/div>\n

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Obuse Kuri-chan is a giant chestnut from Obuse City, Japan.\u202c<\/p><\/div>\n

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Zamarin meets Norimaki Tintaro.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Softkuri-inu, the soft ice cream dog\/dog poo<\/p><\/div>\n

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Tsugaru-chan<\/p><\/div>\n

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Todorocky the boxing seal of Todoroki, Tokyo.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Shinjokun and Mikke-chan<\/p><\/div>\n

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Momiji-chan and Yuzugappa have a standoff.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Koakkuma and Akkuma<\/p><\/div>\n

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Jinguskan No Jin-kun<\/p><\/div>\n

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Udon-Nou in what appears to be a wedding dress.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Shimanekko<\/p><\/div>\n

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Chiba-kun meets Potekuma<\/p><\/div>\n

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Bari-san at the Tokyo Sky Tree<\/p><\/div>\n

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Umeneba-chan competes with the Sky Tree.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Katou Dennosuke<\/p><\/div>\n

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Chosei Tonyu-kun at the Sky Tree<\/p><\/div>\n\n

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Each year an army of fuzzy mascots from all over Japan gather for Tokyo’s largest yuru-chara event, “The Gotouchi-Character Festival in Sumida”. Held in the last weekend of May at the base of Japan’s tallest structure, the towering Tokyo Sky Tree, the festival was tons of fun. Here are some of the pictures I took […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,39],"tags":[4,5,6],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-mascots","category-tokyo","tag-japan","tag-mascots","tag-yuruchara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}