This weekend I encountered another level of Japanese change room etiquette and a socially acceptable way of covering your face rolled into one.
Category: Tokyo
Please use your piston outside
It’s official: please use your piston outside. The Tokyo Metro’s own manners campaign currently has distinctively rude connotations!
At the May Sumo tournament
On the opening day of the May Sumo tournament earlier this month, and I was at Kokugikan in Ryogoku to enjoy the action. I had some friends of a friend visiting Japan, with a brief to take them somewhere good. I worked out how to buy tickets online, got some seats a few days in advance, and… Continue reading At the May Sumo tournament
Tsutsuji
Here’s a post that my mum will like. Now that the sakura have finished (at least in Tokyo), the next springtime floral onslaught is tsutsuji – azaleas.
Hanami – hanafubuki spells the end for 2009
I learned this week that there is a special word for the flurry of petals raining down in the breeze – 花吹雪 (hanafubuki) – which is a beautiful sight of tiny pink flakes floating down from above. My Japanese friends especially love hanafubuki, but part of me felt that this is like celebrating the demise… Continue reading Hanami – hanafubuki spells the end for 2009
Lunchtime hanami
Plastic sheet out in Hibiya Park, shoes off, eating bento with colleagues, sakura petals raining down on us.
Canola in Hibiya Park
I’m uploading too many lunchtime photos from Hibiya Park but today the canola is out, providing a yellow contrast to the sakura.
More Meguro River hanami
I’m walking home from my language class so that I can walk along the Meguro River, and all the way under the sakura canopy – around 2 or 3 kilometres.
Hanami fever hits Tokyo
This is what *EVERYONE* in Tokyo (or so it seems) has been doing today and yesterday – enjoying “hanami” (viewing the cherry blossoms). This is Kinuta Park in Setagaya-ku (around 4 or 5 stations west of Shibuya on the Den-en Toshi Line) mid-Saturday afternoon.
Sakura season in Nakameguro
I was at Nakameguro last night, with a few thousand of my newest Tokyo friends, to enjoy the sakura along the Meguro River now at full bloom.