Coming-of-Age Day

Yesterday was the annual "Coming-of-Age Day" celebration in Japan, the day where 20-year-olds celebrate the commencement of adulthood. I met up with a friend in Shibuya for lunch and we were pleasantly surprised to see that they were having a kind of street fair for the national holiday. Here are a few pictures of what we saw:




Photos (click on individual images for larger view):

• Top left: creepy man on stilts. He was shouting at people from the stairwell and then just waving at them when they turned around to look.
  
• Top right: He walked on all fours! Looks kind of like a strange giraffe--extra long legs, but no long neck.
  
• Bottom left: Acrobats in the middle of one of the busiest streets in the world. I had to turn away several times during this guy's act, because I was sure he was about to fall over.
  
• Bottom right: just in case you've ever wondered what a Japanese man looks like when he thinks he's Scottish...