Golden Week

Currently in Japan, we are on a 4 day vacation period called Golden Week. The holidays are Showa day in honor of the emperor , constitution memorial day, greenery day and children's day although it seems little distinction is made what the day is, it is just golden week. The main difference I have noticed is that the Japanese flag is being displayed in public, shops have golden week promotions, and the streets are generally busier. We tried to go today to a monkey park and there was a huge line up to even get into the parking lot. It is nice though to have golden week compared to Canada which has no real consecutive national holidays except during christmas time. In fact, I did the math and Japan has more national holidays than in Canada.