Tokyo B-Boy Park festival 2010

Are you looking for the skateboarding, break-dancing, graffiti and urban street fashion community in Japan? A few weeks ago, the annual B-Boy Park festival was held at Yoyogi Park in the Shibuya area of Tokyo.

The B-Boy Park festival started way back in 1997 as a way to bring together Tokyo’s B-Boys and B-Girls for a celebration of music, break-dancing, DJs, graffiti, skating, MCing, fashion, and everything else related to the Japanese B-Boy scene.

Over that weekend, there break-dancing competitions, MC battles, live street art demonstrations, and on the main stage, several well-known acts performed – including one of Japan’s longest running hip hop acts, Rhymester. In addition to the onstage events, there were also booths from several Japanese indie hip hop music labels and fashion brands – and, of course, lots of food and beer for everyone.

Hailed as “Tokyo’s Biggest Block Party” there was a healthy crowd of all different ages and styles and the fashion sense ranged from hip hop to Tokyo street style.