A big crowd had gathered around Gardens today, January 25.
(Info provided by Kagayaki 509-go @ Nishitsu SP)
Just before 6 p.m. This was at Hinata Ryokuchi in front of Gardens, the park with the police box. It looks like people had gathered for a Sanseito election speech.
There were a lot of police officers there.
This is what it looked like on the Gardens side.
Lots of people were also watching from the deck at Gardens.
It seems there were both people opposing and supporting them mixed together, but most of the crowd was apparently made up of supporters.
We heard that some of the people opposing them were playing music from the Electrical Parade and “Hotaru no Hikari.”
According to Kagayaki @ Nishitsu Supporter, the overall crowd looked to be about 200 people, with around 30 or so opposing them.
This spot is a standard place for election speeches and often draws quite a crowd, but gatherings of this size usually happen when a well-known figure shows up.
Police officers were also inside the area, seemingly keeping things safe. There were apparently about 10 of them.
They were even checking bags, so security was pretty tight.
Toward Gate-kan. The sidewalk was also quite packed.
There were also some disputes with the police, so things seemed pretty turbulent.
This is the second floor area of Gardens. Compared with when Saito-san came before, it feels like there were fewer people.
Apparently, several Sanseito candidates gave speeches.
Oh. I’ve seen this person before!
That’s party leader Sohei Kamiya. So that’s why so many people came.
It looks like Hyogo prefectural assembly member Makoto Masuyama was there too.
It’ll be interesting to see whether the leaders of each party will come here for speeches in the upcoming House of Representatives election.
They apparently wrapped things up with “1, 2, Sanseito!” Maybe that’s their usual chant.
So that’s our report on the huge crowd that gathered at Nishinomiya-kitaguchi.
※Kagayaki 509-go @ Nishitsu SP, thank you for the information!!
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