Our teacher took us on a trip to the Hakata Folk Museum where we got to see different displays of Hakata throughout the years.

It was interesting to see the displays of miniature towns and scenes.

There was so much detail in every one of them and you could tell how much effort was put into each.

We also got to watch a video about the Hakata Yamakasa festival.

It showed us how they build the shrines each year and all of the hard work that everyone puts in to making them.

The festival looks very difficult and requires a lot of commitment, but everyone works together to make it possible which I think says a lot about Japan in general.

After visiting the museum we walked to the Kushida Shrine.

The shrine is very beautiful and after visiting the museum I think we all appreciated it a little bit more.