Coming Out Day

On 1/12 Japan had it's Coming Out Day Holiday. It is on the second Monday in January. Coming Out Day is a day when all of the young men and women who turned 20 (the age of majority here) dress in traditional Japanese apparel and walk around town. The holiday and dress is to recognize them as adults.

To our disappointment we walked around the Ginza District of Japan for about an hour and only saw a handful of 20 year olds dressed up. One of the reasons for the low turnout was that it did hail today, but it was a very light and almost more like snow than hail. Since they don’t usually see hail here, it was likely considered very bad weather. Here are a few pictures of the youths we did see.