When you live in a tourist town...

When you live in a tourist town, you barely bat an eyelid when a samurai walks down the road! Even if it is after said tourist town has closed down for the night! On a day that there is no festival or particular Edo period event on. 

This is the tourist area of Kawagoe, which I avoid at all costs during the day due to the crowds. But after 6 pm it empties out. It just so happens that the shop in this photo does open late. There are only a handful of shops on the main tourist thoroughfare that open after six. All the other shops around this one were already closed for the night.

And given the time of night and that this 'samurai' had a selfie stick in one hand I can only speculate that he wasn't coming or going to an event. I would guess that he was going to take advantage of an empty Kawagoe to get some photos. We see that a lot at night and early morning - people taking selfies along the tourist strip while there are no other tourists around!