Tokyo - Event

Hundreds of dealers take over Boroichi-dori Street during Tokyo's lively antique flea market, Setagaya Boro-ichi. A rummage could reward discerning shoppers with an antique kimono, hidden among colourful displays of art, bric-a-brac and food stalls selling fresh daikan-mochi rice cakes.

Many moons ago a rakuichi market for unlicensed merchants was established to add prosperity to this castle town. Four centuries on and the market is older than the antiques it sells and the excitement of thousands of feverish bargain-hunters is hard to beat.