Traditional Awa-odori (Tokushima Prefecture origin), samba, and other dances and songs were played at Kyodo, an Odakyu-line station in Tokyo. (map)
More and more such festivals have been held in urban Japan after the 1980s. They should be understood as modernized version of traditional Japanese bon-matsuri (mid summer festival to console the spirits of their ancestors, to confirm the unity of traditional community, and to have temporal relaxation from hard works in hot summer).
Kids, young men and women and middle-age people joined Kyodo Festival. Audiences were dressed in traditional Japanese yukata.
No "Natsu-matsuri" (summer festival) information is found on Wikipedia in English. It is surprising.
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