JUMI on tour review: Japanmarket Leiden

OK, so today JUMI went to the Japanmarket in Leiden (the Netherlands), organized by the Sieboldhuis, Japanmuseum. And the market was exactly as we expected (we didn't had expectations at all, ahum...). First of all it was too crowded for a small market, so sometimes we were pushed away by other visitors. And about some of the visitors, hm. There's nothing wrong with cosplay (=people wearing costumes of their favorite animecharacter). But in my opinion, if you choose to wear cosplay stuff, do it the right way, adapting everything, including your make-up, in that particular style. Visitors also had the chance to take pictures together with 'cosplaygirls'.

Ugly wigs, guys wearing eyeliner, girls who are wearing costumes three sizes smaller...omg, some visitors...

There was also a Taiko performance (drums). We couldn't see anything because it was too crowded but it sounded OK. 

Of course there were stalls, selling art, kitchenwear, sake, origamistuff (that was cool) and food.

We tried little cute green tea cookies.

And we tried sushi at two stalls.

The sushi of the first stall was nice. Of course it wasn't extremely fresh. The sushi was already pre-packed. But it was OK to eat.
The sushi of another stall was...uhm....disgusting! The rice was too sticky and mushy, as if we were eating babyfoodrice or something. A dissappointment!



We relieved the sadness by buying a bottle of Inemankai (red rice sake, very very very jummy).
And with the bottle of sake in our hands, we ended our tour at the Japanmarket 2011 in Leiden.