At 1st January the shopping activities in Tokyo increased up to extreme level because it is the day of fukubukuro shopping. Actually it is a New Year’s Day sale but due to its funny activities it translates into a rage of shopping. People rush to their favorite stores / shops to buy lucky bags. The things present in those lucky bags normally cost more than three times of their prices. Due to this feature of shopping at lower price people become mad and rush to the stores or shops offering such sales.
Buying lucky bags (fukubukuro) is just one side of the fun people enjoy from shopping these bags. There is another remarkable joy waiting for the people who are busy in buying lucky bags. It is resale of unwanted things. This very funny and people enjoy trading of goods they found in their bags and they do not ant them or they do not fit them. The floor of shop becomes a market place for trading unwanted items people got in their lucky bags.
People start shouting to sell their products in exchange of items other people got in their bags. In this way a happy and enjoyable environment spread all around. People start exchanging their goods with the goods of others. An old age idea of trading (barter) comes into life. This trading does not end in at the shopping place it spread in the whole city. Every where in the city people start trading their goods with the others.
This type of trading only happens in Japan and only on the first day of New Year. This gives a grate sense of enjoyment to the people and increase the celebration of New Year. Moreover the 4 to 5 holidays are celebrated in Japan in the first week of January and people went to meet their families. In these holidays lucky bag sale and after sale trading increase social activities in Japan and the people spend their holidays in more amusement and more happiness. In other words fukubukuro bag sale contain a very special place in the yearly events of Japan in general and Tokyo in especial.