Girls Wearing Kimono in Kawagoe City

It is said that visitors who wear kimono or traditional Japanese clothes were eligible to get special discount at every food shop or souvenir shop in Kawagoe.

Otherwise, people rarely wear kimono except for days of special occasions, such as new years' holidays, wedding or graduation ceremonies.

Kiyono and Stephanie Wear Kimono

 I couldn't go with them because of my tennis practice but Kiyono, Stephanie and her friends went to kimono wearing lessons.

They seemed very happy in these pictures.

The clothes looked very nice with the background of the Japanese garden.

I heard that they, in their kimonos, participated in a traditional Japanese tea ceremony, eating sweets and drinking Japanese powder green tea.

It must have been a good Japanese memory.