The Children decorate for Tanabata at Wakayama Station

7th of July is Tanabata in Japan. There is a custom that Japanese writes their wishes on a colorful piece of paper and attach it to a bamboo tree.

On the 3rd of July, at Wakayama Station there were about 30 nursery children nearby decorated their wishes of papers on the bamboo tree. On the papers it is written like [When I become adult I want to get a job which looks after animal] or [I will do my best to do a horizontal bar] etc. A girl said [ I enjoyed decorating]

The station master of the Kishi Station, the Nitama cat accompanied as well. He was looking at the children singing a song for Tanabata.

Wakayama Railway have put the bamboo decoration for Tanabata at three station until 7th of July and passengers who use those station will be able to display their wishes.

THE ACTUAL ARTICLE

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