Samhain and Halloween

Halloween in Japan

Over the past ten years, Japan has shown more interest in Halloween, with all the scenery, visuals and costumes that you'll see in the video below.

Trick or treating isn't big in Japan, but the appeal of Halloween in Japan is the fun and costumes, so the holiday ends up being mostly for adults who want to dress-up. Costume parties become a focus for many establishments or in private homes.

Halloween Activities in Japan 

Halloween celebrations are often held in September and October. Tokyo, Osaka, and Kanagawa are the most popular destinations for costumed fun, but more cities across the country are embracing the holiday each year.

Events usually take place in shopping malls and amusement parks and include street parties, parades, flash mobs, zombie runs, and costume parties at bars. However, the Japanese celebrate their spooky season in August, which is when they usually enjoy telling ghost stories and visiting haunted attractions.

Theme parks around Japan bring in some of the biggest crowds for Halloween thanks to their many diverse events:

• Tokyo Disneyland: Events include a massive parade with more than 100 floats and performers, haunted attractions and performances, and dance parties with ghosts and goblins. At sundown, the parks' many characters transform into ghostly versions of themselves to haunt the streets.
• Universal Studios Japan: Halloween Horror Nights features haunted houses and other scary activities, including a special holiday-themed movie ride. Like at Disneyland, characters at Universal will transform at sundown.
• Shibuya Hikarie Retail Complex: The International Costume Contest invites guests to compete in a variety of categories including scariest costume and best cosplay. 

• Sanrio Puroland: The costumed characters at this indoor theme park known for its Hello Kitty-themed area will transform into spooky ghosts and goblins at night. You can also expect to find themed parties and celebrations throughout the month.

Halloween is Almost Here

 

We’ve been getting ready for Halloween since the beginning of the year because we love the atmosphere, excitement and emotions created by this special holiday.

We honor Samhain for the special Pagan day that it is.

Having said that, we also love the season of Halloween.

For all the people who love cheesy horror movies, fake cobwebs, and the endless supply of cupcakes, we are among and with you.

Halloween, with all its tacky, silly goulishness, is the best holiday. We salute the people who love it, we have a commonality with you.

Halloween is the only Holiday where grown adults can be silly and get away with it.

To enjoy Halloween all you need is bad wig, fake blood on a T-shirt and you're all set.

It's a holiday that is actually fun for kids and adults, at the same time, imagine that.

Other holidays are fun for kids and adults as well, but the money, the cost of some of these holidays put people in debt all year round.

Because of the expense the stress levels go through the roof.

On the other hand, carving a pumpkin, bobbing for apples, going a hayride or experiencing a corn maze are inexpensive Halloween ways to have, a lot of fun.

 

All Hallows’ Eve by Inkubus Sukkubus

Lyrics

Now the mist is on the land

Before the hoards of the dead we stand

Against the cold of the western wind

Against the demons of the night

Let us Drink another drink

As we stand here at the brink

Let us dance, and let us feast

Every man, woman and beast

On All Hallows Eve once again

On the First day of the year

Let us she'd another tear

Let us all count the cost

And recall what we have lost

Let us kiss and have some fun

For we know what's done is done

And those who went before,

Are lost forever more

On All Hallows Eve once again

On All Hallows Eve with the dead

Young girls dream of your true love

For he will soon be in your blood

May you see him in the fire

May you have your hearts desire

Young men be brave for the year ahead

Before the end you may well be dead

Enjoys yourself while you are young

And think not of what's to come

On All Hallows Eve once again

On All Hallows Eve with the dead

Underneath the moon and stars

Now the sun is in line with mars

We can lose into the night

We can have both dark and light

On All Hallows Eve once again

On All Hallows Eve with the dead