Turns out Japan is a big fan of Oktoberfest. There’s a huge Oktoberfest every year in Yokohama, which reflects the city’s history of being the first point of entry for German beer into the country. Wilf really wants to go one year but we’ve never quite lined it up.
And guess what – never mind the October in Oktoberfest! In Tokyo any month is Oktoberfest worthy. And so we found ourselves at Hibiya Park the other night, joining in the beer drinking.
And in we go!
The beer was good – all German. In the background you can see a young man – a sleight of hand magician. We couldn’t understand what he was saying, but the crowd loved him and he was very entertaining.
And the food –
I went for the small plate of sausages. Could have a plate with 12, which seemed excessive. They were keeping pretty tightly to the theme – the only non-German food I saw on a menu was nachos.
After the magician was finished a band started up. They began with a series of German drinking songs to get people warmed up. The night was young, so it wasn’t too busy and people weren’t too far into the beer. But we could see where this was going!
After getting everyone warmed up with drinking songs they moved on to ‘Dancing Queen’, ‘Sweet Caroline’ and ‘La Bamba’ to really get things going.
We didn’t stay late as we still had a long train journey across town, but it was fun!
And this is probably my last post for this trip. We head home tomorrow. We’ve had a great time and seen and done so much! And eaten so much! We have wandered through many interesting neighbourhoods and then come back to our neighbourhood to discover something else that is new to us.
Like this – two random samba dancers coming down the street last Friday:
They had a drummer with them and we never did find out what that was about! So -you never know what you are going to see. Just gotta keep looking around!
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