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Asakusa Samba Carnival

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Asakusa Samba Carnival (淺草サンバカーニバル)is the one of the three major summer festival in Tokyo. Like Samba Carnival at Brazil, great sexy dancers with Samba costume shows exciting Samba Dance. More than 20 great dance teams around Asakusa will join this Carnival. Check out the Samba Rhythm with hot, sexy and interesting dancers with great original songs and music.

Tourist Info.
Many audience will wait long time before to take a great view spot. If you want to see this festival in good spot, you should come and wait at least 2 hours before the Carnival starts.

Access
0. at Ueno Station
1. use Ginza Line to Asakusa (6 min.)


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Asakusa Samba Carnival

Check out the hot, sexy and unique Japanese Samba Carnival at Asakusa in summer.

Asakusa Samba Carnival is the one of the three major summer festival in Tokyo, and the biggest Samba Carnival in Japan. This festival take the all the heat and hotness of summer to make a great finale of the summer. It was started at 1981 by Asakusa people for its promotion.

The carnival holds in daytime at the last Saturday of August.There are over 20 dance teams will join and compete for the award. Those dance team bring different concepts every year to show unique dance, music and costume. Some teams even invite the real latin dancers from south American. The big size team have over 250 dancers in their parade.

There are 4 separate competitions in this carnival:
Communication League for local school,
Sponsored League for local companies,
S1 League for Major dance teams,
S2 League for Minor dance teams.

If the ranking was low the team will be demoted to lower league, and winner of the S2 league will be promote to S1 League.

Therefore, many dancers keep up not just their quality of dance and performance better, but also more unique and fanny.

You can buy special seat for view this carnival. They have also special stage show, and service area for taking pictures with the dancers.

Asakusa Samba Carnival is definitely the most exciting summer festival in Tokyo!


Official Web site: http://www.asakusa-samba.jp/