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| random store before
heading out to akihabara. |
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| shinjuku in the
daytime. |
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| underground shopping mall! |
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| however, as with
most shopping malls in tokyo, 99.9998743% of the stores are devoted to
serving the vast fashion needs of japanese girls! no exception here! |
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| sign. |
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| fruit is
INSANELY expensive here compared to the us. a dozen
oranges? that will be $60, please. |
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| how about a
single watermelon? $48! |
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| individually
wrapped musk melon? breaking the bank at $144 usd!
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| jr yamanote
line sign. |
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| a non-busy
train station. |
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| more of that. |
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| exit to akihabara! |
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| one of many enormous
electronics stores in akihabara. |
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| overall, however,
i found tvs, dvd players, mp3 players, digital cameras, etc. to
be very comparable in terms of selection (with prices
slightly higher here) compared to what's
accessible from, say, . . . ahem . . . my favorite
store on earth, amazon.com. :P |
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| inside one of the
aforementioned gargantuan electronics stores. |
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| laboring up the
stairs. heat, humidity, new shoes, stairs, ... arrrg! :P |
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| manga. whoa. |
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| whew! elevator
time! |
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| descending the
stairs in one of the sega gamecenters in akihabara. |
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| for the us traveler,
perhaps the best things to buy in akihabara are the
wacky electronics items you can't easily obtain in the us. one
not so wacky subset of that are cool clocks! example: these
huge totoro wall clocks. :D
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| same clock store
with super-sized american tourist blocking my view. |
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| another sega building. |
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| etc. |
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| ARRGGGG!! these
games are a killer. i blew 700 yen trying to win a pack of
totoro trading cards at a machine just like this in kabukicho.
not even close! :P |
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| another of these
cash-guzzling machines! note: i have never seen anyone
win anything out of one of these boxes. |
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| heading out of
akihabara. this is the view from the train station. |
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| exiting. |
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