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Last Sunday, I went to the Enoshima Island to participate in the Tenou Festival of the island's shrine. It is located 1 hour and half train ride from Tokyo.   It is to commemorate the event occurred in 19th century, which local fishermen transported cast-away treasure of the shrine across the sea.   So in the festival, the decorated box of the below photo, so called "Mikoshi" was transported by tens of people to the sea from the shrine. When the mikoshi arrived near the beach, only naked guys remained there and transport it to the sea.  ...