TOKYO - Visitors can experience Japanese culture by donning traditional attire during Tokyo Edo Week, an event to be held from Sept. 22 to 25 at Ueno Park in Taito Ward, Tokyo.
The event is aimed at demonstrating Japanese culture to the world in preparation for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. Organizers are calling on visitors to wear traditional Japanese attire, and a rental booth for kimono and yukata will be set up at the venue.
Various events including a kimono fashion show will be made all the more lively by visitors also dressing up in traditional garments. There will also be a stall demonstrating traditional arts and crafts, and a booth where guests can taste sake, soba noodles and donburi rice bowls.
The event’s executive committee is expecting about 400,000 visitors over the four days. “We want visitors to spread the Japanese culture that originated in the Edo period via social networking services,” an official of the organizing committee said.
The Yomiuri Shimbun will cohost the event. Admission is free.
