May 5, 2013
Chase's Golden Week blog post!
Chase here!
During the long break Binita and l went out and did various things; we went to Roppongi to see people in giraffe suits walking on stilts, to the local temple where an older man gave us a tour around the temple. We also went to the park near our house for the afternoon on a different day, It was really windy. On Sunday to Koenji to see various street performers, and went to a picnic at Yoyogi park with a large group of multinational families the day after.
When we went to Koenji there was a huge amount of people all wandering around looking for the hourly shows that were taking place in various areas around the station. Binita and I ended up finding a magician that was doing some really interesting tricks, from being able to swallow a whole blown up balloon, to getting a 50\ coin to magically cut through a 1000\ note without actually cutting the money.
While we were leaving we saw a strange bird like guy with large black wings making its way down into an alley with lots of people which ended up being a parade for interesting monsters, we saw an octopus man, and steam punk bird man, two large eyes wearing suits, and even a Kappa. So we ended up following them around for a while until we decided we wanted to leave.
It was a fun couple of days and we will be doing more interesting things in the next coming weeks.