28th Fireworks and Japanese clothes!

With no real plan for this day we wanted to just chill out around town and maybe catch a film, so we got the car and drove over to a nearby shopping center, had a wander around and some window shopping in this giant place before finding the cinema, we watched the new fast and furious film (huge in japan) and then going out went to a nearby pizza place for some pasta and free unlimited pizza side, random but tasty!

After the pizza we went home and it turned out that Mina's brothers friend had tickets for an annual fireworks display nearby that night, VIP tickets! He offered them to us but in the end managed to get another 2 tickets as well so we could watch together!

We decided to wear the Japanese tradition clothes to go and watch, just for fun, and it seems that is pretty common in Japan, people can often be seen hanging out, shopping or walking around wearing the traditional Kimono and other clothes, it is a nice feeling and makes it feel very Japanese. 

Mina is good at doing the traditional Japanese clothes, and actually has a qualification in fitting and helping people wear a Kimono, but doing mens traditional clothes turns out to be completely different, luckily with youtube on her phone and her brother as a model she did his first, and then mine, it was very funny, it did however take an hour to do us two, then 10 minutes to do her own!

I was wearing the traditional Yukata, the summer Kimono, but didn't look hugely Japanese, it was however good fun and we were in the second row of the uppermost balcony of the yacht club watching the huge display over the harbor and drinking beers, very fun! We must have been a good picture with mina, her brother and I all in the traditional Japanese dress, (and a few others were too, although no other foreigners) in this small town drinking asahi and taking pictures, unforgettable!