投稿の詳細: 年末の東京　Tokyo at year end

年末の東京は存外静かで
あったというべきか。
賑やかな場所もあり、
そうでない場所もあった。
新宿、銀座と少し歩いたが
デパ地下の目当ての店に
向かう人々の列が
目を引いた。かつては
入場制限したブランド店への
行列かと思ったが様子が違うので
列の先頭を探っていったら
焼き菓子の店だったり、
卵焼きの店だったりしていた。

その有名ブランド店へは
何の問題もなく入場でき、
店員を相手に品定めしている
客のすぐ横で商品の価格札を
読んだりすることができた。

東京は変わっていた。
人出は多くても静かで、
聞きなれない言葉を話す
東洋人の姿は多かったが、
一時の喧騒さがなく、
落ち着きを感じさせる街になっていた。
それに、商品の価格も
ひところよりは手にしやすい
範囲になってきたような。

銀座は久しぶりだった。
ブランド店のビルが増えたという
ので、久しぶりに歩いて
見る気になったのだ。
何か違ってきたのだろうか。

昔私が住んでいたころは、
と今思い返すと、
出歩くために出歩いていた
事が多かったような気がする。
今は、きっとそういう人たちは
他の街に行ってしまったような。
楽しい街が他にうつったのか、
楽しい場所が分散したのか。

何かを動かすようなエネルギー
を感じるのは相変わらずなのだが、
それが発散するというよりは、
どこかに流れて行く先、
向かう先があるような、
うねりや流れの様なものに
なって来たように理由もなく
感じていた。

いよいよ年末ですね。
皆さん、良いお年を。

Shall I put it as rather
quiet at the year end Tokyo?
Some places were very busy but
other places were not really.
When I walked around a bit at
Shinjuku and Ginza area, I found
crowds of people making up lines
towards certain shops.
I wonder if these lines were
towards the famous branded
goods shops but I felt different.
So I walked along the lines to find
out where the people headed for.
They were either confectionary shop
or baked egg roll shop, etc.

In the famous branded shops selling
leather bags or garments, I had no problem
to enter and walk around inside watching
price tags standing by a cutomers who were
talking to the sales ladies whic one pick.
These shops were so busy and used to have guards to control
the number of people entering into the shops.

Tokyo has shown changes.
With the many people walking around
in the famous shopping streets,
and even though there were many strangers
talking in unfamiliar langauges, the
streets were no more noisy as disturbing.
They were quieter or rather more sophisticated
and the goods were priced friendlier.

It's been long time since I had last
visited Ginza. As I heard there were new
buildings by famous branded companies, I
wanted to look around to see how they had
changed.

I remembered when I was living in Tokyo
around ten years ago, I thought there had
been many people who came out these
place only to just come out and be there.
Now, these people have gone to other
area or interesting places have changed
its places to somewhere eles.
As for me, I just quit Tokyo and deceide
to live in country side.

Saying so though, I feel great energy
in Tokyo as berore. I felt the diversion
of energy or like an eruption but now the enegry
became a kind of flow or wave with certain
direction. This is what I felt this time
without reasons.