So Halloween was yesterday. I was in Ito at a speech contest (where a student from Yaizu Suisan took 2nd in the prefecture!) early in the morning, and was home just as the sun was setting. I took my usual route home from the station - that is the small side-street that runs parallel to the main drag. I can’t be bothered to ride next to big trucks and mopeds, not to mention the noise.
But, people are out trick-or-treating, sort of. There are kids in costumes, sure, and they appeared to be carrying bags of the evening’s spoils, but there was an odd element in the equation somewhere. It might have been the “halloween special” music playing on the street’s outdoor speakers (a halloween theme song, in English - of course - and it could’ve been written for the Macy’s parade). It might have been that the stores had made booths in the front and were selling, selling, candy. So those were mightily expensive bags of spoils.
I never stopped to investigate, as it was beginning to rain, so maybe the stores weren’t selling the candy, but they had the same set-up as at any festival (where you pay before you eat) that I’ve been to.