As I was looking at the date, I realized that the second Monday of January was Japanese "coming of age day". It is the day to celebrate people who turned 20 years old. There are different minimum ages for different things, like voting, drinking, driving, marriage and so on, but they consider 20 years old to be an "adult" in general sense. Each city sponsors events and invite new 20 year-olds to attend. Many girls wear traditional Kimono. This is probably the only time for most of the people to actually wear kimono in these days. I never wore it because I didn't find value in doing so at the time, but it is nice to look at them during this season. It is a great photo opportunities for any foreign visitors, too because you can see many young girls in kimono everywhere. If you ever visited Japan, you will noticed that most of the people don't wear kimono. Only people who do are professional geisha or very old people. So this is the once a year opportunity to take photos of young people who are not professional geisha, in kimono.
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