Kimonos and other things

Even when I'm in Portugal I like to indulge myself in a few moment of People Watching. When I'm in the subway or alone in downtown. I observe the common person, tourists and those who like to be different. It's maily driven by curiosity and it's enhanced when I'm travelling, and it peaks when I'm travelling alone. So in Japan there was a lot of that. Either in the coffee shop, or when I was waiting in line for something or in the busiest places.

In Kyoto I got specially obsessed with people in Kimonos. There are many people (specially women) that still wear them. The complete set, because without the socks and the sandals... it wouldn't be right.

But Japan is much more than keeping the traditions. Specially in the largest cities, specially in Tokyo, you find fashion loving people. And the looks can range from very sexy and modern to sexy and childish. But they're always sexy.

Baboushkas

For me, one of the highest points of the trans-siberian were the stops at the platforms. Not because of the fresh air or the ability to move more freely (which felt really good as well), but for the platform vendors that we could find in almost every stop.
They would sell drinks, fruit, some kind of pastries, icecreams and other traditional food (like dried fish, which I had no nerves to try, I confess). Most of them were women, not that young, many of them with a traditional scarf around their faces.
But better than words, are the images, and sometimes I felt like a stalker, trying to get the best photos...
Here are a few:

To sell something the baboushkas were always moving from one place to the other

The used many different things, from wood baskets, to buckets, to this

In some stops they tried to sell things even to the ones that didn't leave the train

Dried fish, anyone?

This lady was not selling anything in this moment, but I just liked the image

In the last stop things were a bit more organized