This past weekend offered a couple of interesting activities. First on Saturday there was the annual "Thai Festival", a show case of Thai culture & food, which i visited with Opal from my class who is from Thailand and hence was able to provide excellent guidance when it came to picking from the many delicious foods and snacks being offered. Unfortunately Saturday was also miserably cold and rainy which put a bit of a damper on the tropical festivities (- note however that this may have been a good thing in the end - apparently last year's Thai Festival was "unbearably crowded", now it was just "crowded"). The weekend highlight however was supposed to be Sunday's "Kanda Matsuri" a festival/parade in honor of the Kanda Shrine, located not far from Akihabara (electric town').
I never found out exactly what the purpose of the parade was other than carrying around some of the sacred shrine objects (such as the one seen here, while passing Akihabara's 7 storey SEGA "Gemusentaa" - arcade) and making lots of noise. But it was interesting, crowded and as you can see for some reason the men did not wear pants... I'll be fair, they did wear loin-cloths, but there was still a quite surprising amount of manly flesh on display by Tokyo standards, in some cases a bit too much maybe ;)
This past weekend offered a couple of interesting activities. First on Saturday there was the annual "Thai Festival", a show case of Thai culture & food, which i visited with Opal from my class who is from Thailand and hence was able to provide excellent guidance when it came to picking from the many delicious foods and snacks being offered. Unfortunately Saturday was also miserably cold and rainy which put a bit of a damper on the tropical festivities (- note however that this may have been a good thing in the end - apparently last year's Thai Festival was "unbearably crowded", now it was just "crowded"). The weekend highlight however was supposed to be Sunday's "Kanda Matsuri" a festival/parade in honor of the Kanda Shrine, located not far from Akihabara (electric town'). 
I never found out exactly what the purpose of the parade was other than carrying around some of the sacred shrine objects (such as the one seen here, while passing Akihabara's 7 storey SEGA "Gemusentaa" - arcade) and making lots of noise. But it was interesting, crowded and as you can see for some reason the men did not wear pants... I'll be fair, they did wear loin-cloths, but there was still a quite surprising amount of manly flesh on display by Tokyo standards, in some cases a bit too much maybe ;)
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Could be a belated echo of No Pants Day.
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