Japanese Yukata Cruise

Yukata is a traditional Japanese clothing. The Yukata Cruise (or Noryousen in Japanese) goes on board everyday from Tokyo Bay, goes through and beyond Odaiba and ends back in Tokyo Bay; it goes on from July till September, and is only 1500Yen on working days (2500 yen on weekends) if you  wear a Yukata; this price includes an All You Can Drink package (Nomihodai) in which you can drink as much beer and Sours (Japanese cocktails) as you want, and you get to see traditional Japanese live performances! When I went there with my friends, the first thing I was surprised about was the amount of people; there were more than 1750 people (I asked!), most of them wearing Yukatas, and almost all having a great time, drinking, dancing, flirting, singing and what not! It was probably one of the best experiences in the past 4 years that I have been in Japan.

After drinking a Lot of beer, we all went to see the performances, and were simply amazed by the dancers, who were dancing in Yukatas and sometimes slippers but other times astonishingly high heels, while still finding a way to do some intensely technical and coordinated moves! After talking to one of the performers I got to know that they are a group of dancers who perform on this cruise every year and practice for about 5-6 months prior to the event, every single day, in order to get their moves up to the mark. Talk about perfection!

After the performance, some dance music played and people went berserk dancing, jumping, spilling drinks, shouting out into the sea... it was truly a wondrous sight seeing SOO many bright red faces which would be stressed out and working extremely hard during the day, but just letting everything out at night! Work hard, party harder!