Because it was going to be one of the last days that I would get to spend with my friend from school who was in town, we just walked all around the district near my school on Saturday. We didn’t visit anywhere that was particularly new (to me), but we did get to talk a lot and managed to see a couple exciting things, including a bride and groom having their wedding pictures taken outside of a local shrine and a maiko getting into a cab (in full dress) in Kamishichiken geisha district. We had lunch at a ‘Colorado Café’, where the service was slow but the sandwiches were cheap and tasty, and hit up Book Off (a used book, CD, DVD, and game store) and the 100yen shop. By the time I limped home I had some impressive blisters and wallet that was rather lighter than when I had left in the morning.
-The white hood worn over a Japanese bride’s hair is supposed to ‘hide her horns’ until after vows have been exchanged, which I think is just hilarious.
-Some of the people here are great at sales. I went into a used kimono shop and the woman there asked me if I’d ever been on television. It might also have been the sunglasses.
-Apparently traditional Japanese formal shoes that are worn with kimono are ‘one size fits all’, and don’t fit me at all.
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