Japanese Spring Festival in Augsburg

A few weeks, maybe even a month ago I suddenly felt lonely. With everyone around preparing their costumes for the biggest anime con in Czech Republic I was in a mood to look for some anime/japanese/lolita events in Bavaria...and I ended up on Animexx - probably the biggest (?) German forum about this topic and I found a list of upcomming events. I found some conventions, but I don´t know what to do there since I don´t watch anime anymore and me and my bf both dislike being surrounded by teenage otaku cosplayers =D But what cought my eye was a Japanese Spring Festival in near-by town Augsburg´s botanical garden. It looked pretty cool with food, performances and FOOD ! ...did I mentioned there was a japanese food in the program? =D

We were really excited about it, since we both love going to Aki-matsuri (Autumn Festival) which is once a year in Prague. There is always great atmosphere, japanese people of all ages and a LOT of japanese food.

According to a program the festival in Augsburg looked very similar.

And it really was !

Unfortunatelly it was a rainy day, so the festival was a little bit spoilt - everyone was soaked after walking around in the rain, all the cute cosplays, ladies in kimonos and performers of martial arts =/

But despite the ugly weather and cold there, a lot of people stayed and waited for the rain to stop. Then the main program started, there were Taiko drummers, girls could try on a real japanese yukata or kimono, a writing workshop, an exhibition of statues and bonsai trees and what was the best - a snack-bar where a (quite handsome) japanese cook made a soba noodles and a lot of other stuff.

We bought soba, japanese beer for my bf and I had a glass of saké from a barrel (like in anime *o*).

In the end we went to a japanese garden, which was absolutely beautiful and where the tea ceremony meant to be, but because of the rain it was in the conference room. I wish to go there again, when the weather is sunny, sit on the wooden floor, watch the little waterfall and imagine I´m in Japan =)

I wore a sweet lolita after a long time. Which was quite unfortunate choice because of the weather (in a last few minutes of the event I slipped and almost fell on the dirty ground, had my parasol from Baby covered in mud and also my skirt got a little dirty >_<).

I need to buy some white jacket to keep me warm in sweet lolita...I had to wear two cardigans =D

And the most important thing about the whole outfit are my new tights yay !

Finally I have some cult-party-kei tights ♪

End of the talk, here are some photos I took during the day.
I also found an official gallery of the event here
There are some photos of us, too =D ha ha

(a second before I fell down =D)

And my loot ♪

I was hoping to meet some local lolitas on the event, but there wasn´t any =(

oh and what I wore

blouse - Anna House

cardigan - H&M

skirt - Bodyline

tights - RTBU LegArt

shoes - Bodyline

parasol - BTSSB

bag - BTSSB

Have a nice day and stay strong everyone who is in floods zone ♥