Two nice japanese with the traditional yukata (summer kimono) posing for the gaijin photographer.
It’s really common in summer to see women wearing these beautiful dresses, especially during the weekends. Also men wear their yukatas in the weekends, but in a quite lower number.
In the same market as in a previous post, I also found a stand where they sell since 1988…
One of the fears I had at the beginning was the infography in the metro. Someone told me everything was written with Japanese characters…
Fortunately, the situation has changed, and now you can always read names of stations you can understand…
I love the flash on the labels… ;(
After that, we went to a karaoke, Japan’s national entertainment. This was quite fun, but I will elaborate more on the karaoke concept some other time, because the idea we have in Europe of a karaoke is quite different from the japanese style.
After karaoke (around 4.00 am), my party colleagues went to a disco, but I preferred waiting for the first train (5.00) to go home. So, what could I do? I went to a place called Don Quijote (I might be wrong with the spelling, but it’s how it sounds, and it is a well known brand in Tokyo), which is a sort of department store where you can find almost everything at a good price, and bought a futon for my forecast guests. Yes, after 4.00 am.
I think we can include without problems Tokyo in the list of cities in the world who do not sleep, together with New York and Benidorm. 😛 Tell me in which other place you can buy a mattress at 4.30 am without moving from the pub area.
By the way, just imagine me carrying the mattrasse back home in the metro… I was even photographed…
