The “Matsuri in Sydney 2014” was held in Darling Harbour on 13 December, a beautiful summery day.
This festival aims to showcase the various aspects of Japanese culture, like the tradition of festivals and animation, and to introduce Japan as a tourism destination to visitors.
We ran a booth that promoted tourism with plenty of brochures and pamphlets on places to visit in Japan.
Official estimates say the event attracted about 30,000 visitors – many visited our booth and left with many tourism brochures provided by Japanese local governments and the Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO).
There are many kinds of booths, including KARAOKE and another serving rare Okinawa dishes.
Every booth was incredibly busy all day long.
We look forward to promoting Japanese culture and tourism in the future, and we hope many Australians will visit Japan and experience Japanese culture firsthand.