This year is our very first time attending Takko Town Beef and Garlic Festival. The journey was so far! Around 2 hours of driving and since everyone was heading the same way, we were stuck in the midst of the mountain road, I had lost count of how long we waited. Not to mention upon our turn to enter the car park, we were directed to park at the peak of the mountain (nowhere near the festival) and to take bus to the festival instead. Not to mention the bus driver taking his own sweet time oblivious to the full packed of passengers waiting for him inside. The last family (American family with 2-3 kids and whole brunch of stuff) looked pissed when they realised the bus was packed and we eventually drove off without them.
We reached the event place around 12pm i think but some of the stalls already sold out their food (the festival was supposed to end at 3pm), the main event of grilling the whole cow was also sold out (I only saw the bones left) and there was nothing left for me to take pictures lol! At this time, there were long queue of cars waiting just to enter the parking lot. We ate variety of beef from the stalls and its was interesting to see large scale of people grilling the food with the pits. You have to buy the tickets (2000 yen) in advance which included a raffle ticket, a souvenir bag, mixed vegetables, garlic meat sauce, Takko garlic, a package of beef, chopsticks, and a small paper plate.
We left a hour later and walked to bus stop only to realised the bus just left and we waited 20 minutes for it. There's another bus went a different route and it came every 5-10 minutes. At this point, S's anger was accelerating rapidly from the moment the staff told him the next arrival bus will be 20-30 minutes later and the other bus kept making frequent stops in front of us lol.
S commented that the festival was poorly organised (1 entry to the carkpark, there were another limited edition cars show near the Beef & Garlic festival hence 2 different of events but only 1 entrance.), our carpark at the peak could not be helped since no more lots but the frequency of the bus was too slow. They also underestimated the number of people turning up for the festival, some of stalls that sold beef were sold out and its was only 12pm. The festival supposed to last til 3pm....
This should be our first and last time to attend the festival lol!
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| while waiting in the long queue, even the lamp post resemble like garlic! |
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| finally we reached! |
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| Miso tofu, too hungry just buy whatever had no queue |
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| Beef beef beef |
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| 400 yen per stick |
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| Never seen the original plant of garlic! |
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| beef again.... what you expected from Beef festival! |
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| So cool, you have to buy the bbq ticket (2000yen?) in advance in order to use the pit |
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| 400 yen scallops! Kristi are you drooling?! |
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| Either its garlic or beef pizza, forgot about it |
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| Garlic contest for the best garlic |
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| Our carpark was on the peak of the mountain |
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