Halloween Train

Halloween isn't really a Japanese holiday. However, Japanese people love celebrations, especially seasonal celebrations. So, there is a lot of halloween decorations up everywhere, but nobody really celebrates halloween with a party, costumes, and candy. Fukui, however, has an awesome international club that throws the most ridiculous halloween party ever. Basically they rent an entire train for the night and we have a halloween party with 200 people on a train. Every stop we pick up new people. When we get to the end of the tracks there is a large party, food, drinks, and a Japanese KISS cover band.

yep.

Afterwards we all pile back onto the train and ride it back to Fukui city.

 Originally, I was supposed to be something but it fell apart at the last second. So I had to make a costume in just a few hours. I defaulted to my trustiest and most used costume, a strawberry. All night I was called "Ichigo-chan!" (Strawberry in Japanese). Enjoy photos and video of the train and take in the awesomeness.

Me and my neighbor Linda. She is "Wally" or "Waldo" depending on where you are from!

A stop motion video of the night made by a local Fukuian. pretty awesome!

All of the people getting off the train in mikuni.

craziness.