Miyajima Oyster Festival

The weekend of February 11th was the Miyajima Oyster festival. Huge crowds of people made their way over to Miyajima Island to get a wide variety of oyster dishes from the street vendors.

We took a 10 minute ferry ride from the main land over to Miyajima Island. In the background you can see another ferry leaving the island to return people to the main land.

A view of the Torii Gate from the ferry boat.

Another view of the Torii gate - some of these pictures may look familiar as we also went to Miyajima last fall.

There was a samurai production going on up on a stage near the oyster vendors.

There was a band playing while the two samurai's took on the yellow dragon man. 

Oyster soup.

A close-up of the oyster.

We got a gift bag with a number of different sauces, dressings and rice dishes.

Street vendors preparing bags of fried oysters.

The long line of people waiting for fried oysters.

A close up of the fried oysters - 1 bag cost 200 Yen.

Kirk says "fried oysters are oishii (delicious)!"

 

This was the long line we waited in for grilled oysters.

One plate of grilled oysters had 2 shelled oysters and cost 200 Yen.

Once you pull open the shell to get at the oyster, you can eat it plain or add an oyster sauce to it. The festival had a number of tables set up where you could try different sauces.

Here is a view of Miyajimaguchi (mainland Miyajima) on our return ride from the island.

From the boat you can also see Hiroshima city off in the distance.