Happy Halloween from Kyoto! Probably not the post you expected from a city known for its gardens and UNESCO World Heritage sites, but we all posed in the 'photo spot' we passed on our way out of Kyoto Station. The Japanese are mad for Halloween!
But just as they have given Italian food a Japanese spin (eggplant & lotus root pizza), they have taken Halloween to some different places. Here are a few examples:
Halloween-themed pastries
A Halloween gingerbread house (not sure if the flavor is gingerbread, or just the concept).
Halloween tenugui (dyed cloth).
And my personal favorite, in the window of a traditional medicine provider, a model showing the meridian lines used in eastern medicine (if you enlarge the photo you can see them):
But the piece-de-resistance was the nightly light show on the stairs at the Kyoto train station. I've got it captured on video, but you'll have to wait - the mobile blogging app won't post video.
i'm going for the apple pie. it looked delicious!
ReplyDeleteHad not even noticed apple tart until your comment. The Japanese also love French food, and I saw French-style cafes in Kyoto & Osaka. Also transplanted French & Belgian patisseries & boulangeries in the basement food courts of nice department stores.
ReplyDeleteI think my favorite Halloween memory from our trip will forever be the Kyoto Station stairway light show, I hope you will post a cconnection to your video.
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