Spent a great day in Harajuku neighborhood today. Overcast but not raining until tonight. The crowds were definitely out and the fun in the park was limitless. Harajuku is known for it's outlandish Sunday's in the Yoyogi Park and the neighborhood surrounding. The surrounding area is high end shopping, Madison Avenuesque and the crowds are young and way out of this world in their dress and style. Below are just the tip of the iceberg of things going on in Yoyogi park.
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| Hypnosis |
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| Baby skateboarding |
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| Cos-play Lollie Girls |
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| Lute concert |
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| Drums more your style? |
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| Street performers perfecting their routine. |
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| Flag football with adults wearing the flags and really young kids chasing them to pull the flags. hilarious the kaos. Who knows the real winner the team or the parents having worn their children out. |
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| Double dutch jump roping. There was a group of about 30 high school girls on one rope...Again too enthralled to take the picture. |
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| Singers |
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| Tightrope walkers |
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| Dog dress up is the rage. |
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| Harajuku cos-play lolli girl |
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| Frisbee in the fore ground and there are literally 20 groups of about 12-15 guys/gals learning a dance routine. They repeat it over and over and over until it is perfected and then they video tape it...bizarre, but fun to watch. |
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| Yes, the face mask is still in Vogue! |
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| Harajuku Ave....a sea of madness. All along this street are mainly girls clothing, jewelry, shoes but the crowds are thick and the fun of people watching is fantastic. |
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| Mom is into it..kid not so much, Loli always ready for the photo op! |
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| Dancing "Elvis's"...weird to hear the music that you know but to see a group of 6 Japanese guys and girl with their hair slicked back ....a swishing and a swaying to the oldies. There were two groups that when 1 stopped the other cranked up their speaker and kept right on grooving. |
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| Harps anyone? |
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| How about a little Salsa dancing. They had a bench with a bunch of wine bottles...the more they drank the better they felt they were. Some were awesome, some not so much. But a fun time had by one and all. |
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| Weird game of catch where you wore this bib like contraption around your neck and put your hands thru the other 2 ends so that the mitt was a triangle and your bounced the ball back and forth without using your hands. |
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| Dog Dressup. So cool |
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| I just don't know what to say about him. There was like this huge game of hide and seek. each team wore colored arm bands, his is pinned to his suit, and they run all over this however many acre park looking for the other team. They chase them down and like take them prisoner. They use cell phones to text pictures of themselves wherever they are hiding and try to be the last one captured. It was so funny to see people just walking and then go to a dead sprint to chase the other teams. |
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| Something traditional |
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| Goth |
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| Or something Cutesy |
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| Too many Starbucks coffee drinks. This guy was sitting in the window making incredible balloon animals |
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| Just weird store mannequin break dancing to bring in the crowds |
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| Finally captured the infamous Harry Potter glasses with out the lenses. Guys and Girls and sometimes they roam in packs with the eye ware that makes them look... well weird. |
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| The subway ride home, all the school girls look alike, and this one is wearing the gigantic headset connect to a teenie, tiny MP3 player. What a great day! |
