On August 2, the event "Yukata de Ginbura 2015", which aims to encourage Ginza visitors in midsummer in yukata and kimono to cool with a variety of Japanese hospitality, will be held from Ginza Street 1-chome to 8-chome Held using a pedestrian paradise.
"Yukata de Ginbura" was started nine years ago as part of the commemorative start of Japan's first pedestrian paradise on Ginza Street in August 1970, and the "Holiday Promenade" held every August.
In the watering event "Ginza Sennin Ryofu Plan" (15: 00-15: 45), which can be said to be the main event, asphalt on the street is cooled when visitors and people in the city spray water all at once with a loud shout. Cool wind blows through the pedestrian paradise.
In addition, for visitors in yukata or kimono, "Ginza raffle", which sells well-established products in Ginza, by lottery from among the correct answerers of the quiz "riddle solving tour" related to Ginza, "Ginza-style painting experience", East Japan Reconstruction Support Project from Ginza 2015 "Yappa Ginza dabe" (Yabeen tea shop in Shiogama) wadaiko, "Goldfish shop selling goldfish shop selling goldfish shop"
And there are many icicicles and ice statues "Ice Festival" arranged in eight places on Ginza Street.
The highest temperature in Tokyo on this day was 35.1 ° C, which was a hot day for three consecutive days, and it was crowded with many Yukata visitors who enjoyed the coolness of a moment while walking around the pedestrian paradise.