Little Tokyo Ennichisai 2014!

Hello guys! welcome back!

Today i will tell you about my 'little' adventure in an event called Ennichisai. I am sure you all already know about it, especially if you are Japan Lovers here. But for those who do not know about it i will give you some clues. If on May 24-25th you by any chance passed over Blok M, South Jakarta area, and you found a sea of people there and you also saw many people wore costume, it was Ennichisai.

Little Tokyo Ennichisai is an annual Japanese art and culinary festival held at Blok M Jakarta since 2010. For more information you can visit their web here. I have been coming to Ennichisai since 2011, so this year was the fourth year i have visited it.

Actually i planned to come both to day 1 and day 2 but because of my  lovely  thesis, i could not make it to the first day. So i made an appointment with my soul mate since High School, Chae to come together and search for our favorite cosplayer whom we met in 2011. You can read about it here and here (sorry it was in Bahasa Indonesian). So i decided to meet at 3pm because we thought that the festival atmosphere would be greater in the evening and because i need to write my thesis first.

It was so crowded when i arrived there
i did not take this picture when i arrived but nothing really different

 I have some tips for you who want to come to Ennichisai next year:

1. Make sure to only bring stuffs you really need. It will be better if you do not bring any bag. If you park your car near the venue make sure to leave everything in the car and only bring some money (without your wallet), phone, and camera.
2. It will be more fun if you come there with your friends. More people you bring there, the more you can enjoy the event. Because if you come by you self you will be like a lost child there. 
3. Make a meeting point with your friends before you come to the event. Trust me phone will be useless. Every messages will be pending. The signal is the worst ever.
4. If you see a person and you think cool and maybe you want to have a picture with him/her just ask him/her directly as soon as possible. It will be hard to find a person again in that kind of place.

Okey, because i had not make any meeting point with Chae, it was really a pain in ass to meet her there. Like i told you in third point, phone is useless. My messages was not delivered, and even if you make any call you will not hear anything. So i finally found Chae at 4pm..... 4pm huh i need an hour to find her, at least i was still glad i could find her.

Camwhore with Chae
It almost 1 yeat since the last time i met her

There were two stages and a festival here. Why were there 2 stages? because one is traditional culture stage and the another is pop cultural stage. We tried to come near the stage and watch something but it was useless ahahhaah we could not see anything.

collaboration performance of Indonesian and Japanese culture

Me managed to come near the traditional culture stage once, but for the pop culture one, there was no hope for us, so we only walked around the festival and tried to find cool cosplayers. There were many food and merchandise stands there. People were having fun, many coplayers had photo shoot too! ahahahahha ah there was also Mikoshi for street parade!! What is Mikoshi? well search it for your own, i am sure there is one article about it in Wiki ahahha, i will only give you some picture of it.

Mikoshi Street Parade

Speaking of Japanese festival, there must be Japanese Food!

Takoyaki!!

And also cute mascot of some products!

With convenience store Lawson's mascot 

One of the best baby's diapers Mamy Poko's Mascot

And of course! cool cosplayers

Jack Frost!!! The favorite cosplayer of the day!
because he cosplayed as Jack Frost (he is my favorite character) and also a little cute lol

White Ranger and Amei
sstt, actually Amei is Silver Ranger in an undercover mission ahahha

Takeru-kun, Patamon, and Amei
aaak the Patamon is cute, isn't he?

Another Jack Frost and his magic staff!
He was so kind and let me steal his staff

Two Jack Frost in my hand!!!
There was a funny story about this picture ._.

Combination Jutsu with Naruto-kun!!!
Kagebushin no Jutsu!

Finally Chae took a picture with a cosplayer!
Chae and her idol since middle school! Sasuke-kun! 

Sasuke-kun was so cool~
We were cool couple lol (my expression was not cool tho)

Dunno the character name
but the coplayer was handsome :3

Meet them in the escalator when we search for dinner
dunno the characters name, but the cosplayers were so kind to me

What i learnt from my experience in 4 years of Ennichisai, never ever be shy to ask for the picture. So this year i did not hesitate at all, ahhahahah they even did not know who i was so nothing to be embarrassed about. Nah~ we met so many kind cosplayers that day. I mean they were really kind ahahhaha i even played pranks to some cosplayers.

I teased Takeru-kun so much ahahah
"Hi can i take some picture? with your Patamon?"

But unfortunately we ended up heart breaking because our cosplay idol (the one i mention in the beginning of the post) did not cosplay. AHAHAHHA thats too bad. But we were very happy, and as we thought the festival atmosphere in the evening was the best!

feel like the festival in Japan right?

I made this one as this blog header!! ehhehe love it!

Ennichisai was always fun! But too bad i did not meet many friends this year there. Last year i met so many high school friends there tho... maybe everyone is too busy with their thesis tee-hee. Anyway i will make sure to come again next year! see you