Squid vs. Robots Featured in Hakodate, Japan Tourism Videos

by Scott Beale on March 26, 2009 · 1 comment

Pink Tentacle has a great post about a fantastic series of Hakodate, Japan tourism videos that feature alien squid invading Hakodate by hijacking a giant mechanical squid fighting landmarks turned into giant robots that are called into action to defend the city.

Hakodate is known for it’s squid culture and every August they celebrate the squid with citizens doing the Ika-odori (Squid Dance) as part of the Hakodate Port Festival.

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1 willy March 28, 2009 at 7:40 am

the yokoso tourism campaign is pretty nice too, more for your average traveler
http://japansugoi.com/wordpress/yokoso-japan-campaign/

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