We do celebrate Halloween in Sweden, but not nearly to the extent that Japanese people do. Since the first day I arrived here in Tokyo I've spotted Halloween decorations pretty much everywhere, and most cafées had pumpkin flavored sweets and cakes. We don't eat pumpkin in Sweden so for me it's been quite a interesting experience trying out the Halloween specials. I must say that by now I've definately fallen for the taste of pumpkin though! I even ate a pumpkin pumpkin crêpe (pumpkin pie and pumpkin icescream in a crêpe) in Harajuku last week.
For Halloween me and my new friends from school decided that we wanted to do something special, and we figured that there probably isn't a more epic way to celebrate Halloween than at Tokyo Disneyland! So we bought ourselves "night" tickets meaning that we were allowed to enter the park between 6pm - 10pm. There was no use buying a full day tickets seeing as we had school during the day and the night tickets were a lot cheaper! We payed 3,900 yen each.
Disneyland was absolutely amazing even at night! I was a little worried that it would be too dark but it really wasn't and the darkness only contributed to the Halloween feeling. Everyone of us had dressed up for the occasion and I can't believe how many people that wanted to take our picture all the time.
I do highly recommend the night tickets for those of you that feel like even a short time at Disneyland is enough. Because we got almost 4 hours which was plenty of time. It wasn't enough time to go on rides, as the line to Space Mountain was 55 minutes, but we got to look around, buy candy and have a lot of fun. We even got there in time to watch the night parade and later we got to see the grand fireworks show before closing time. Epic.
The park itself was so beautiful and I loved the Halloween theme they had put up. Pumpkins everywhere! I definately would like to go there again during the Christmas holidays as it will most likely be magical at Disneyland with a snowy Christmas theme!
After our adventure at Disneyland some of us decided to continue the night in Shinjuku. First we went to a random bar, paid 800 yen to drink as much as we wanted for an hour, and I tried hot Sake (Nihonchu) for the first time! And then we continued on in order to find a nice bar Amanda had been to last week. We asked around but couldn't find it so eventually we just went into a random bar again whereas the bartenders were wearing Halloween costumes. It didn't take long to realize that we had walked into gay/transvestite bar and I'm glad we did because it was suuuch a cosy bar!! And the bartenders were lovely! They celebrated their bar's 10th year anniversary so we were able to drink how much we wanted until 5am, for 2500 yen each, and they also treated us to homemade japanese food that a lady in the neighbourhood came by with. I spent hours talking to the japanese people seated beside me, sometimes having to look up words together on their phones but it was great to be able to practice my Japanese like that. We ended the night at McDonalds. In Japan the trains stop running at around 12pm and they don't start again until around 5am. That's why most people here go to McDonalds to sober up or sleep it off until the trains starts running again. Drunk people were sleeping everywhere.
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