Do you Know "Golden Week" ?

" Golden Week " is a Japanglish word. At first, the owners of film theaters started using this word after the National Holidays Law was brought into effect in 1948. The numbers of people who went to see the movies was increasing during the week, so the owner started calling the week " Golden week", which meant " supremely wonderful week." Sincethen, this word has been popular.

Golden week is a long holiday week which starts on April 29, " Green Day", and ends on May 5, " Children's Day." During Golden Week, Green Day, Constitution Day ( May 3), and Children's Day are national holdays.　 Once holidays were studded during this week, so Golden Week was alsocalled " Tobi-ishi Renkyu ", which means "stepping-stone holidays". Butrecently this expression hasn't been used. Golden Week is an ideal tourist's season, so many people travel abroador around Japan.