A picture is worth more than a thousand words?? It depends!! ;-)

"The day after". This picture was taken on March 11th, right after our graduation. We were celebrating Harumi, Rob´s and Francesco´s birthday.




The day after my own graduation, on my way to returning the Kimono and Hakama, I quite a few girls walking around on their "graduation" costume. I asked them politely (in my best Japanese! ;-)) to pose for the picture.
March is the "graduation month" for the Japanese Universities. On April 1st (this is to say, tomorrow!), their student life is over and most of them join the company they will work... in general... for the rest of their life!
In Japan, the fiscal year starts on April 1st and ends on March 31st. March is quite a busy month for most employees and actually is the month where the rate of suicides goes up.



This is the picture of one Kimono shop in the Shinjuku Station (mine!). The fabric and most of the designs of the kimonos are beautiful.. but they are not cheap at all!




Bike parking... mine is the first one! :-)
All the bikes are organized with the handle on the same direction.... I´ve never spoken about it but there are quite some "interesting" and "surprising" jobs (specially for some retired men) that consist on organizing this way the bycicles.



Instituto Cervantes in Tokyo (quite new, by the way. It opened a few months before I landed in Tokyo!)






I made several good pictures on the day that the young Japanese celebrate their "coming of age" day in January but for some reason they did not come out. This is one publicity about it!





This is of an exhibition about Samurais