This is a pretty late post for what was on Saturday. On friday I went hunting for a place to buy a yukata, sash and shoes. For those who don't know a yukata is a traditional Japanese summer outfit that is similar to a kimono but much simpler and cheaper. It's really thin which is great and being made out of cotton also helps keep you cool. Nowadays they are normally worn if you are spectating a festival, part of an obon dance etc basically for an organised occasion. I really like em but anyway the store I found was a short walk from Ginza station and probably had the cheapest yukatas around and amazingly in my size. Alot of places, at least for untailored yukata dont stock above size L so I was heaps happy to find this shop, it's called Hayashi Kimono.
I bought a yukata and kimono, I'll upload pictures later so you can see...
The fireworks festival was...packed as but not unbearable like Sydney NYE. In Sydney literally everyone is cramming to get to the front or whatever so it gets really congested. It's quite surprising because there was only two firework boats on the sumidagawa river whereas I think Sydney runs 3ish along the harbour plus the bridge but at least this time everyone was more spread out. We left as a group from our dorm and after complicated directions came to the place our nice dorm reps had prepared i.e. layed out some sheets on the road so we could sit. The fireworks started at sundown and went for about 1.5 hours I taped more than half but I don't how I can get them on here..
After the fireworks we made our way back, the group went to dinner in Shibuya but I met up with some friends who had come from Yamanashi. I just like to say Starbucks Matcha Frappuccino is sooo tasty. Matcha is the strongest flavour of green tea, it comes in a powder and is used traditionally in tea ceremonies. In modern times they have made all kind of things Matcha flavour like ice cream, sweets etc
So far so good, I still haven't started Karate up again after my break should get to that soon, I'm also researching climbing Mt Fuji so that'll be fun when I do it :D
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