Annual Asakusa Hagoita Market
Annual event at the end of the year
December 17, 2016, Tokyo, Japan - Hundreds of colorful hagoitas or battledores, bearing raised cloth images of popular celebrities, are sold during an Some 330,000 visitors are expected to turn out for the three-day Some 330,000 visitors are expected to turn out for the three-day annual fair to buy or just to browse thousands of hagoitas sold by vendors along the mall of Asakusa's iconic Sensoji Temple. Natsuki Sakai/AFLO) AYF-mis-