The Human Tsunami

As we were following the clues for the scavenger hunt, we found ourselves in an area of Tokyo called Shibuya. Immediately we knew something was going on. There was an electrifying buzz of human activity around the place. People were waiting anxiously for something, but what?! I could hardly stand the suspense when it happened. The flood gates opened, the dam broke, the human tsunami hit. Hundreds, maybe even thousands of people all of a sudden poured in toward the ten of us, cameras and camera phones in hand, running and screaming like someone were giving away free sushi! It all happed so fast, I couldn’t even turn the camera on! Apparently there is some popular Japanese TV show called Kisarazu Cat’s Eye and the five very handsome young male stars were making an appearance in Shibuya near Tower Records. It was hysteria! Girls screaming and crying. Suddenly the proper and reserved Japanese (mostly women) morphed into a vicious, uninhibited mob! The whole thing lasted about 2 minutes. The five guys walked down the stairs and into a waiting van, and off they went. So there I was in the midst of this momentous moment in Japanese history, and not even a picture to show for it! But I do have a shot of the famous intersection outside Shibuya station where thousands of people cross the streat each time the light changes.