Tokyo does a good job at summer. The city has fireworks festivals, cheap watermelon, and you can wear yukata to lots of fun outdoor events. It’s enough to distract me from the heat and humidity, even if I don’t forget. I bought my yukata years and years ago from Uniqlo, when they were still selling 4,000 yen yukata, but they’ve stopped, and it’s about time to update my wardrobe anyway, so I’m out shopping for a new one. I browsed the Matsuya department store the other day just for fun – but at 30,000 average for just the yukata (never mind the obi), maaaaybe not right now. Marui (the one whose sign looks like “0101”) has yukata as well, at a more reasonable but still pricey 15,000. The up side, however, is that they sell yukata with pre-tied obis! No more standing in front of the mirror for an hour trying to get it to look right. The clip-on of Japanese summer wear is here to save me.
Do you have a yukata for the summer season?