3 Ways to spend Golden Week in Japan if you hate Crowd
And is it really Japanese people’s favorite time of the year?
I am not Japanese and I do not reside in Japan either. However, in my eight years of having conversations with my Japanese students, they have been telling me that Golden Week is one of the holidays they look forward to most because it is one of the longest holidays for them.
Golden Week is a sequence of Japan’s national holidays that happen from around the last week of April to the first week of May. This time of the year is their opportunity to unwind and travel for many days especially for company workers and businessmen. This year’s golden week started on Thursday, 29th of April up to the 5th or 6th of May. It was supposedly the perfect week for them to escape if the third State of Emergency has not been declared in Tokyo, Osaka, Hyogo, and Kyoto prefectures. Apparently, there is a fourth wave of coronavirus in Japan right now that resulted in the declaration. Still, they can spend a week-long holiday and as for me? It is the busiest week for teaching!
There are 4 national holidays within the Golden Week.
- April 29 is Showa Day or the birthday of former Emperor Showa.
- May 3 is Constitution Day when the new postwar constitution was executed in…
