Teenagers hanging out in Yoyogi Park near Harajuku Station in Tokyo.  On weekends, young people converge on Harajuku generally and the park in particular to display their latest personal styles, spanning  baby doll, Gothic, and punk.  Harajuku represents the cradle of bleeding edge style for teens in Japan.  On weekends, teens converge to the area to display their personal style and invent new words, styles, and crazes that get incorporated into Japanese and global pop culture.

When I visited Yoyogi Park in the late afternoon on a Sunday, teenagers were just sitting around the park chit-chatting while waiting for the bus.  Others were converging in from the shopping areas close-by.  There were also some Elvis impersonators slicked up and dancing to old tunes in the park - it looked like exercise actually because they were sweating profusely and it looked highly ritualistic.  Then again, it could have been from wearing leather jackets in 80% humidity on a muggy July afternoon.  Styles displayed were quite spectacular - but all the magazine photographers hanging around taking photos of primarily girls in baby doll or gothic outfits was a bit disconcerting.