This week is Golden Week! Which is basically a week at the end of April and beginning of May each year that has about 4 different public holidays. There is Showa Day (April 29), Constitutional Memorial Day (May 3), Greenery Day (May 4), and Children's Day (May 6th). Although many people travel overseas or farther away from the city this week there are also tons of festivities for the rest of Tokyo's population.
One of these festivities was a 'Bikkuri Matsuri' which roughly translates into a Surprise Festival. It was in Koenji, which is about 40 minutes away from where I live. It was a fun festival! There was face painting and street performers, two things rarely seen in Tokyo.
We got our faces painted with some flowers! Fun for the festive atmosphere, definitely got more stares than usual on the train ride back home though.
A ribbon dancing acrobat!
Chalk art! Betcha can't guess what this dude was drawing!
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