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Hokkaido Belly Button Festival

The city of Furano held its annual Heso Matsuri (“Belly Button Festival”) yesterday. Participants took to the streets with a variety of amusing faces painted on their bellies.

Here are a few belly button parades video clips that folks have uploaded to YouTube:

The second clip is the best. Gotta love those Dragonball bellies and the Barack Obama dude!

dragonball bellies

The Hokkaido Heso Matsuri is:

[hat tip to Ken Y-N]

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4 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - July 30, 2009 at 3:26 pm

Categories: Odd / Strange Tags: belly buttons, heso matsuri, japan, odd, strange

Rob A

I think more than “Great” or “Stupid” it falls somewhere closer to strange. Any info on the origins of the festival?
Nin

Whoa. I can’t believe how many people went for stupid. Isn’t a festival like that just too cool?
http://3615-mavie.blogspot.com/ Stéfan

I think the people who voted “stupid” have a ugly belly button, that’s why they don’t like this festival, which is nothing else than awesome.
http://caught-redhanded.com Ryan

This is pretty hilarious to be honest! Like @Rob A, I would really like to know what the origins of the matsuri are; do you have any info on that?

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