Flea Market

I walked into the Yokohama Arena and found the flea market taking place today. I ended up spending a lot money, but only 300 yen on used stuff- one shirt, one scarf, and one umbrella.

I did not understand the event at first because merchants I encountered at first were all selling new stuff, and I did not realize I had bought second-hand shirt and scarf until much later when I began to see tons of places selling `100 yen-only` for shirts, pants, jackets, shoes, etc. This made me realize that Japanese are instead in a bad recession. But then I also remember reading the article in my Japanese textbook that says flea markets are getting more popular in Japan because Japanese are becoming more environmentally-conscious and they also like cheaper but good-quality goods.

Two complaints- the smell of second-hand goods was not that great and that most places have so much clothes piled on top of each other in big piles that it was difficult to select goods.