Coming-of-Age Day ceremony held early for Hato Bus employees

How does this:

 It is celebrated by those who turned 20 during the previous year or will do so before March 31 this year.

inform this:

No male bus guides or female drivers? Quite telling.

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Beautiful picture. The ladies are all lovely! I hope they enjoy their coming of age.

A strange custom. But definitely a different, especially for guides.

+Schopenhauer

It's different.

This is a traditional "ceremonial" coming-of-age ritual where people who just turned 20 celebrate (and swear in to become the members of the society, in some cases.)

But in the eyes of the law, 18 year-olds are considered and treated as adults, and now are given the voting rights in Japan.

I hope they had fun and it is very interesting to see the different styles of the furisode kimono.

No male bus guides or female drivers? Quite telling.

Because..........

 It is celebrated by those who turned 20 during the previous year or will do so before March 31 this year.

Completely shameless company free advertising! Now everyone knows this company only has girls who have just come of age working as tour guides on their buses.

I thought the government lowered the coming of age to 18 and gave voting rights to them already. Is this different?

Kimono worn by girls on this day cost their parents a huge money.

Only if you buy them brand new. You can rent kimono in many places or buy used. Then there's always the option of having a hand-me-down from one's mother, grandmothers or aunts. (A good reason not to flog off your kimono and keep it for the next generation.)

Kimono worn by girls on this day cost their parents a huge money. In Nagoya, they have a saying if a house has three daughters, the house go broke.

Sweet.

Did they only hire women? That is weird. 22 people and not one of them male. So much for diversity.

Perhaps not the norm, yet, but there are male tour bus guides in Japan. And plenty female tour bus (and city bus) drivers.

The 22 women, who are bus guides, come come from Tokyo, Hokkaido, Yamagata and Kagoshima prefectures

No male bus guides or female drivers? Quite telling.