April 01, 2006
April 1 was the day when Indian Embassy, here in Tokyo organizaed a function called SAKURA BAZAAR. I think their idea was to bring together all Indians in Tokyo together and make them to see the wonderful national flower of Japan - SAKURA- to its fullest bloom. The place where this was organized is called "Kudanshita". I and swapna reached that station 1 pm and the crowd was incredible. Majority was of japanese people who have come to see the the cherry blossom at a park just outside the station and others were mostly indians who were supposed to reach to embassy Sakura bazaar held at indian embassy.
As soon as we came out of the station, there was a small lake, fully surrounded by Sakura Flowers...and this scene was phenomenal. The road fully crowded...and all the sides of lake fully occupied by people from all over the places. The embassy was actually just 5 mins away from that station, but it took us around 30 mins to reach there b`coz of the crowd.
At last seeing the flowers on the road, we managed to reach at Embassy, where all the indian citizens in japan have gathered. The embassy was fully packed and the atmosphere was exactly similar to a "Shaadi" (marriage) thing in our India.The volunteer groups from south india, west india and ll over the indian places have organized the different stalls for Dosa/Idli,Chaat,Chhole-Batture, Wada, Sabudan Khichadi, Chai and what not. Apart from indians, the japanese friends also acoompanied them. The place was jam packed man, you could feel that you are in india. There were clothes stalls too, where indian women were helping out japanese counterpart for trying them indian dresses like Sari...
To summarize it was very much like an indian party and this function helped us to see the beautiful Sakura, the lovely food and lot of friends where you could meet at one single place.Looking forward to such more programs and also thinking of volunteering with a food stall with some intersting stuff.
If interseting in seeing some more flowers and a glimpse of indians here, have a look at the adjoining photo album named same as "Sakura Bazaar"
April 1 was the day when Indian Embassy, here in Tokyo organizaed a function called SAKURA BAZAAR. I think their idea was to bring together all Indians in Tokyo together and make them to see the wonderful national flower of Japan - SAKURA- to its fullest bloom. The place where this was organized is called "Kudanshita". I and swapna reached that station 1 pm and the crowd was incredible. Majority was of japanese people who have come to see the the cherry blossom at a park just outside the station and others were mostly indians who were supposed to reach to embassy Sakura bazaar held at indian embassy.
As soon as we came out of the station, there was a small lake, fully surrounded by Sakura Flowers...and this scene was phenomenal. The road fully crowded...and all the sides of lake fully occupied by people from all over the places. The embassy was actually just 5 mins away from that station, but it took us around 30 mins to reach there b`coz of the crowd.
At last seeing the flowers on the road, we managed to reach at Embassy, where all the indian citizens in japan have gathered. The embassy was fully packed and the atmosphere was exactly similar to a "Shaadi" (marriage) thing in our India.The volunteer groups from south india, west india and ll over the indian places have organized the different stalls for Dosa/Idli,Chaat,Chhole-Batture, Wada, Sabudan Khichadi, Chai and what not. Apart from indians, the japanese friends also acoompanied them. The place was jam packed man, you could feel that you are in india. There were clothes stalls too, where indian women were helping out japanese counterpart for trying them indian dresses like Sari...
To summarize it was very much like an indian party and this function helped us to see the beautiful Sakura, the lovely food and lot of friends where you could meet at one single place.Looking forward to such more programs and also thinking of volunteering with a food stall with some intersting stuff.
If interseting in seeing some more flowers and a glimpse of indians here, have a look at the adjoining photo album named same as "Sakura Bazaar"
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