Tori no Ichi it's an annual fair organized by the way of days of rooster in Chinese calendar. The biggest one happens at Asakusa. Smallest ones like the one we've been to are held in different shrines around the city. The main speciality is rake - ornament ment to bring your business luck.

-...the biggest one?

-I tell you, hand made!

what a toad...

sore, sore, sore!!!

-have you seen the sponsors this year?

nothing more warming than atsukan!

in Stockholm...

Sent by Ewa & Magnus. またよろしくね!!

Few shots without a word.

Annual student festival at Saitama will not delight you from the outside. Chaotic stalls with freezing representatives of different clubs, selling snacks and drinks like "banana pancake with tequila" or "chicken yakitori and amaretto". But when you get inside, your jaw will drop for sure. Whole three floor building fitted with maze of clubs and taprooms. Downstairs full of rock venues. 8 classrooms, different rasp in each one. On the stairs you pass by violin players, getting ready for the concert in symphonic hall . Then you check out the drama club, where a guy dressed in kimono speaks to the empty audience. Next you visit modern jazz club, where the band forms up dynamically. Somebody from audience stands up and play, the drummer returns behind the bar and the waitress take off her apron and starts to sing. At the very end you got to the nightclub where hard house, beautiful female DJ and jumping their traditional dances students from Nepal, hit your head very positively.