Kabuki-za and Tscuba-san
When to my first live Kabuki performance yesterday! It's golden week here so everyone has holidays. All holiday things are swamped, and the normal areas of Tokyo are like a ghost town. Strange. Anyways, that means that there was standing room only in the forth balcony cheap seats. Interesting experience, nevertheless. No cameras allowed, but here is the site of the offical theater, and there is a cute flash presentation explaining kabuki at http://www.shochiku.co.jp/play/kabukiza/theater/index.html
Sorry this isn't an actual link or something more convenient!
On Wednesday we went with a couple to Tscuba-san, a beautiful double-peaked mountain north of Tokyo. A large portion of Tokyo decided to go with us. It was a mite crowded! But we did some climbing, walking, eating, climbing, waiting in lines, road a cable car and a gondola, and were filmed eating soba (a type of noodles) by a film crew! I hope I slurped appropriately! This same crew caught us later and asked the women to pose for pictures, infront of all the crowds! I think it was because we were the only gaijen (foreigners) there. I mean, they were struck by my beauty . . . uh, yeah.
And Spring Grand Sumo Tournament on Tuesday! That's bound to be an eyefull . . .