Happy New Year in Harajuku

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By Kjeld Duits, Tuesday January 10, 2012 - news

Last week-end, I got together with Kumamiki and friends to celebrate the New Year

We walked around Harajuku, had some purikura done, got some crêpe and visited 6% DOKIDOKI. Kumamiki wore a beautiful self-made kimono with a mushroom design obi.

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The whole gang managed to cram into the purikura booth

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Kumamiki literally runs into some friends

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Photographing a crêpe

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Junnyan getting ready to shoot a masterpiece

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A small girl on an outing with her father insisted that she’d be photographed with everybody. She so badly wanted to be photographed together that she was actually crying. We wiped her tears and shot her group shot and she was happy again.

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About the Author

Inspired by the stunningly creative street fashion that exploded on the streets of Tokyo and Osaka in the late 1990’s, photo-journalist Kjeld Duits launched JAPANESE STREETS in 2002. This makes JS one of the first fashion blogs on the net, and the very first to cover Japanese street fashion.