I was just bumbling around Harajuku on Saturday. I had never visited the shrine there in Yoyogi park so i decided to go have a look. Its such a beautiful park and the shrine is amazing. Its so quiet there. you dont feel like you are in Tokyo at all. I happened to be there while a wedding ceremony was being held. It was beautiful. I dont know much about the traditional Japanese wedding. The wedding party was marching around the grounds of the shrine and then the took photos on the side of the building and then finally disappeared into one of the restricted courtyards.
After that I bought a box of Pretz and a C.C.Lemon and sat down to watch the circus by the overpass by Harajuku station. This is where all the teenagers come in their crazy costumes and sit around and get their pictures taken. Saturday is not really the day for this. Sunday is when all the major cos players are out, but Saturday was interesting enough. I sat next to this man who did not face the crowds of people, but instead faced the street and put on a rockabilly lip singing performance. Even when a group of Scottish tourist decided to be his backup dancers and twirled onto his imaginary stage doing a Scottish folk dance, he still did not turn around to face the crowds of people now watching, but continued to sing (scream) into the street as cars merged onto the overpass. It was very strange.
There where quite a lot of performers and painters and this man dressed in a pink heart costume.
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