Kasasagi Morning Market (based on Yobiko Morning Market) - Sunday morning street market, combined with a little spring festival sponsored by a local shrine and the Hasetsu business owners' association
- Cherry blossom decorations all over the damned place
- Usual market stalls selling fresh fish and other products, including tofu, miso paste, fruits/veg, and household goods
- Street food vendors selling treats: -- Grilled squid on a stick -- Sakura mochi (pink-tinted sweet rice cakes filled with red bean paste wrapped in salted/pickled cherry leaves) -- Manjuu (steamed buns with sweet red bean paste) -- Cheap greasy yakisoba -- Kara-age (fried chicken bites) -- Takoyaki (fried octopus dumplings) -- Black sesame soft-serve ice cream (yes this is a thing and it's delicious, it tastes toasted and nutty) -- Taiyaki (fish-shaped waffle cakes filled with red bean paste)
- Plenty of people with sandwich signs promoting businesses, handing out tissue packets and flyers with logos on them or discount coupons. Businesses might include local hotels/ryokan with banquet rooms (like Yu-topia), martial arts or sports facilities (like the Ice Castle), car and bicycle repair shops, travel/tourism companies offering tour packages to Hawaii or Australia.
- A local politician or two, a mayor or prefectural representative or the like, working the crowd
- A tombola type game of chance, where you turn a handle on a wooden box and a red or white ball comes out. White balls get something cheap like a sticker or a paper fan; the red ball wins a free all-you-can-eat squid dinner at a local seafood restaurant.
- Middle and high school girls in white and red shrine maiden outfits walking around, encouraging people to visit the shrine and buy good-luck charms
- Small stage with local performers from the nearby middle and high schools (a wind quintet, a women's choir, a traditional dance group, an enthusiastic after-school club band with too many guitar players)
- For the kiddies, a guest on-stage appearance by the beloved Red Racer from the ongoing sentai series Galactic Driver Zuttoranger (i.e., a poorly paid actor in red spandex and a face-obscuring helmet, whose gymnastic/fighting moves are not the best) who fights a rubber-costumed monster from the evil Galactic Formula Z Empire. (Yuuri would not be expected to know what exactly is going on, but he can guess the plot based on the overdubbed vocals coming through the sound system and how a nice young lady is standing by with a microphone, encouraging the kids to cheer for the hero.)
What a Great Idea, Yuuri! Let's Go to the Spring Festival!
- Cherry blossom decorations all over the damned place
- Usual market stalls selling fresh fish and other products, including tofu, miso paste, fruits/veg, and household goods
- Street food vendors selling treats:
-- Grilled squid on a stick
-- Sakura mochi (pink-tinted sweet rice cakes filled with red bean paste wrapped in salted/pickled cherry leaves)
-- Manjuu (steamed buns with sweet red bean paste)
-- Cheap greasy yakisoba
-- Kara-age (fried chicken bites)
-- Takoyaki (fried octopus dumplings)
-- Black sesame soft-serve ice cream (yes this is a thing and it's delicious, it tastes toasted and nutty)
-- Taiyaki (fish-shaped waffle cakes filled with red bean paste)
- Plenty of people with sandwich signs promoting businesses, handing out tissue packets and flyers with logos on them or discount coupons. Businesses might include local hotels/ryokan with banquet rooms (like Yu-topia), martial arts or sports facilities (like the Ice Castle), car and bicycle repair shops, travel/tourism companies offering tour packages to Hawaii or Australia.
- A local politician or two, a mayor or prefectural representative or the like, working the crowd
- A tombola type game of chance, where you turn a handle on a wooden box and a red or white ball comes out. White balls get something cheap like a sticker or a paper fan; the red ball wins a free all-you-can-eat squid dinner at a local seafood restaurant.
- Middle and high school girls in white and red shrine maiden outfits walking around, encouraging people to visit the shrine and buy good-luck charms
- Small stage with local performers from the nearby middle and high schools (a wind quintet, a women's choir, a traditional dance group, an enthusiastic after-school club band with too many guitar players)
- For the kiddies, a guest on-stage appearance by the beloved Red Racer from the ongoing sentai series Galactic Driver Zuttoranger (i.e., a poorly paid actor in red spandex and a face-obscuring helmet, whose gymnastic/fighting moves are not the best) who fights a rubber-costumed monster from the evil Galactic Formula Z Empire. (Yuuri would not be expected to know what exactly is going on, but he can guess the plot based on the overdubbed vocals coming through the sound system and how a nice young lady is standing by with a microphone, encouraging the kids to cheer for the hero.)
- Other chaos as necessary