Halloween in the Capital
- âpitravel
- Oct 31, 2015
- 3 min read
4:30 p.m. local time we arrived !! Off the plane and quick passage through customs, everything happens very quickly. I take the bus to the center of Tokyo, my friend Paul is waiting for me at the '' Tokyo Station '' ... the central station which is actually gigantic, so I put 1 hour to find my friend, but I think it could have been worse .. We run to take a subway and then another to finally arrive at the apartment in the district of Ōmori. We do not linger as we are expected by Kaori and Paul's friends. Go to Shibuya, the most famous square in Tokyo. You can see it in the film Lost in Translation, and I confess that this intertwining of people is quite impressive! The light is green .. Go! It starts and you have to avoid by the left there! Jetlag and disorientation in the early hours of arrival, there's quite a lot to be dizzy!
We enter in a building that does not look anything special and go to a nice restaurant. First reflex, you take off your shoes and you put them in a small locker and then you find yourself in a small private room for dinner. We will be ten in the end. Many beers and raw fish, as well as other Japanese specialties. The evening keeps going in the neighborhood streets that are already well animated for the Halloween eve. Some people are dressed and the group of friends is into the mood to dress up. We easily finished at 3am, it's pretty easy to adapt yourself when you think it is 2pm;)
HALLOWEEN !
Nous entamons cette soirée par la fête d'anniversaire de Vrigil, nous passons une belle soirée franco-japonaise pour finir dans les rues bondées de monde déguisé du quartier de Shibuya. L'ambiance est là ! Mon ami Paul est juste incroyable, avec son déguisement de la mort, il ''attaque'' tout le monde avec une cuillère (en référence à un drôle de thriller), les gens sont surpris mais se prennent au jeux. La foule est serrée par moment et je vous avouerais que certains japonais ont les mains baladeuses dans ces moments (d'ailleurs il existe une rame de métro réservée aux femmes pour éviter ces désagréments..)
Sinon on essaye de rester en groupe, une photo par ci une photo par là. Certains déguisements sont hillarants, d'autres ont tenté le déguisement groupé alors on peut trouver autant des bandes de marios et luigis que un kiwi en morceaux !! Je crois aussi qu'il doit y avoir un concours caché pour le déguisement le plus court ou le plus sexy à vous de voir ;)
En tout cas ce fut toute une expérience !
HALLOWEEN! We begin this evening with the birthday celebration of Virgil we spend a nice evening Franco-Japanese to finish in the crowded streets of Shibuya. The atmosphere is there! My friend Paul is just amazing, with his costume of death, he '' attacks '' everyone with a spoon (referring to a funny thriller), people are surprised, but are getting into his game. The crowd is tight at times and I confess that some Japanese have wandering hands at these times (indeed there is a subway train reserved for women to avoid this ..) We try to stayed all together, a picture here and a picture there. Some costumes are hillarants, others tried the make groups of costumed people such as several mario and luigis marios or kiwi pieces !! I also believe that there must be a hidden competition for the shortest or most sexy costume ;) In any case it was quite an experience!
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