Bon Odori 2012 at Taman Desa Tebrau, Johor Bahru

As usual, the yearly Bon Odori 2012 event had just over and this year the event was held at Taman Desa Tebrau (which is behind Aeon Jusco Shopping Complex Tebrau City). (Total of 39 photos...be patient on the loading...)

Before the event start, a extremely heavy rain pour down...and I thought...Oh! No....it might going to spoil the mood of everyone who planned to have fun in Bon Odori. But fortunately, I was Wrong! The rain stop around 6.30pm and I see the peoples visited to the event in gourp by group non-stop! Great!

Bon Odori 2012 at Johor Bahru

The Bon Odori Dance had started when we were there...

Bon Odori Dance

The cute little girls had attracted many peoples to took photos of them...:)

The mother and her cute little girl...

This year, the dance was different where peoples dance on the stage and also circle the stage on ground level! Good response!

The stage of Bon Odori 2012, Johor Bahru.

Before we started to walk around the area and the activities, we decided to fill up our stomach first....variety of foods in that evening, even some are non Japanese food...

Japanese Oden. One Cup - RM6...anyone?

Very popular Rice-cake stall (above) where you can hear some kind of slogan : "Hei-sho! Hei-sho!" all the time...

They will bring the bunch of flour for the women to finish packing for customer...I didn't try it because of the Long Queue! This Japanese Rie-cake should be Delicious...!

The women packed it (top), and the customers queuing for it (bottom).

I like the BBQ Chicken very much! Nice!

If I'm not mistaken, this is the Japanese restaurant (above) at Crystal Crown Hotel, JB (correct me if I'm wrong).
Every year, the Kinsahi's stall will be Pack with peoples and it was no different this year too!

Kinsahi booth was Full of peoples!

Pan fried dumplings...

BBQ Sweet corns, anyone?

We settled our dinner in this booth and I had a onion fried rice from other booth, Nice! During the dinner time, the stage had the 1 Malaysia dance that I miss the chance to take photos...luckily manage to took some on the last Culture dance...

The photograhers started their busy moment...

Follow by the game activities....you can look for these games (below) at the Honda booth...

The Game session...

Met a group of pretty ladies on the Bon Odori that evening...

Before the Japanese Drum Performance start, I took a chance to walked to their preparation booth to snap some photos...

The two pretty drummers from 鬼太鼓

The leader had some short briefing and encouragement for the Japanese Drummers

Huge crowd of audience had positioned in front of the stage before the Drum Performance start, one of my favorite performance on every year Bon Odori!

The stage and the audience...

The Drums set up was done fast and perferct before 8.15pm!

The preparation of the Japanese Drum Performance

And the show started...

The Japanese Drum Performance was performed by the teams from Penang, Kuala Lumpur and Johor Bahru.

I enjoyed the show VERY MUCH!!

The last performance on that evening was the 2nd Bon Odori Dance...tremendous response from the public! Everyone (included children) was happy to dance together and the moment was Great!

The Bon Odori Dance

The 4 cute little girls

I like the dancing style of this senior...

Some pretties spotted...

Everyone was circle the stage and the Bon Odori Dancers were having fun on the stage too! Beside that, the senior drummer performed again in the middle of them...

Bon Odori dance on the stage

The senior drummer...

The Bon Odori encore once...requested by the public...Yeah!

Sometimes I just felt the time passed so fast...after the dance, it came to the end of the event and we have to wait for another year again! We had another unforgettable evening at the Bon Odori 2012!

For those who miss this event, don't miss it next year! It can be a joyful evening for you and your family!
See you next year!

Related post :-
*  Bon Odori JB 2011

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