Sarah’s Blog Post 8: November 4, 2015
Halloween is a very popular holiday in the
United States. I was very interested to see how it is celebrated in Japan
because I have heard that it is not as big of a holiday here. However, as I
have been walking through all of the stores and streets around Kichijoji and
the rest of Tokyo, I noticed many Halloween decorations. I was looking forward
to the actual day. From what I have been told, Halloween has been getting much
more popular in Tokyo over the past few years.
This year, I went to Shibuya because I
heard that there would be many people. There were so many people that it was
very difficult to walk along the streets. My favorite thing about Halloween in
Shibuya was being able to see all of the creative costumes that people were
wearing. People in the United States also think of many creative costumes, but
it was fun to see the differences with popular costumes. I think that Japanese
people like to make scarier costumes than people in the United States. In the
United States it might be common to dress up as a police officer, but in Japan
it seemed common to make many costumes into zombie versions. So I saw many
zombie police officers in Shibuya.
