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  • Ameyoko or Ameyocho is a busy shopping street dominated by small market-style stalls selling a wide variety of wares especially fish. Ameyoko runs parallel to the JR railway line with its large market under the railway tracks.
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  • Ameyoko or Ameyocho is a busy shopping street dominated by small market-style stalls selling a wide variety of wares especially fish. Ameyoko runs parallel to the JR railway line with its large market under the railway tracks.
    ameyoko-3.jpg
  • Ameyoko or Ameyocho is a busy shopping street dominated by small market-style stalls selling a wide variety of wares especially fish. Ameyoko runs parallel to the JR railway line with its large market under the railway tracks.
    ameyoko-2.jpg
  • Ameyoko or Ameyocho is a busy shopping street dominated by small market-style stalls selling a wide variety of wares especially fish. Ameyoko runs parallel to the JR railway line with its large market under the railway tracks.
    ameyoko-11.jpg
  • Kappabashi Shoppers - Kappabashi is a street in Tokyo which is almost entirely populated with shops supplying the restaurant trade. These shops sell everything from knives, restaurant decorations, plastic display food samples found in Japanese restaurants to display their menus. The street has also become an offbeat tourist destination thanks to the wacky displays and unique souvenir items found only in Japan.  The street's name is believed to come from the popular mythical creature, the Kappa, a Japanese water demon.
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  • Part of Palette Town, Venus Fort is a shopping mall in the style of an 18th century South European town. It features more than one hundred boutiques, shops, cafes and restaurants, targeting a mainly female audience. It is located on Odaiba Island - an islet in Tokyo Bay composed of landfill.
    venus-fort-5.jpg
  • Venus Fort is an Odaiba shopping mall built to look like a town "in 18th century Italy" according to its creators. With more than one hundred boutiques, shops, cafes and restaurants targeting a mainly female audience the ceiling lights are set to "dusk" most of the day.
    venus-fort-1.jpg
  • Part of Palette Town, Venus Fort is a shopping mall in the style of an 18th century South European town. It features more than one hundred boutiques, shops, cafes and restaurants, targeting a mainly female audience. It is located on Odaiba Island - an islet in Tokyo Bay composed of landfill.
    venus-fort-4.jpg
  • Part of Palette Town, Venus Fort is a shopping mall in the style of an 18th century South European town. It features more than one hundred boutiques, shops, cafes and restaurants, targeting a mainly female audience. It is located on Odaiba Island - an islet in Tokyo Bay composed of landfill.
    venus-fort-3.jpg
  • Part of Palette Town, Venus Fort is a shopping mall in the style of an 18th century South European town. It features more than one hundred boutiques, shops, cafes and restaurants, targeting a mainly female audience. It is located on Odaiba Island - an islet in Tokyo Bay composed of landfill.
    venus-fort-2.jpg
  • Part of Palette Town, Venus Fort is a shopping mall in the style of an 18th century South European town. It features more than one hundred boutiques, shops, cafes and restaurants, targeting a mainly female audience. It is located on Odaiba Island - an islet in Tokyo Bay composed of landfill.
    venus-fort-7.jpg
  • Ameyoko or Ameyocho is a busy shopping street dominated by small market-style stalls selling a wide variety of wares especially fish. Ameyoko runs parallel to the JR railway line with its large market under the railway tracks.
    ameyoko-9.jpg
  • Ameyoko or Ameyocho is a busy shopping street dominated by small market-style stalls selling a wide variety of wares especially fish. Ameyoko runs parallel to the JR railway line with its large market under the railway tracks.
    ameyoko-8.jpg
  • Ameyoko or Ameyocho is a busy shopping street dominated by small market-style stalls selling a wide variety of wares especially fish. Ameyoko runs parallel to the JR railway line with its large market under the railway tracks.
    ameyoko-6.jpg
  • UNIQLO is Japan's wildly popular clothing chain stores are quickly spreading around the world.  With new branches all over Japan and now in New York and Paris, the secret of UNIQLO's success is simple - high quality, simple and affordable.
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  • Ameyoko or Ameyocho is a busy shopping street dominated by small market-style stalls selling a wide variety of wares especially fish. Ameyoko runs parallel to the JR railway line with its large market under the railway tracks.
    ameyoko-7.jpg
  • Akihabara Electric Town, frequently shortened to Akiba, is a major shopping area in Tokyo for electronic, computer, anime and geek goods – known in Japan as “otaku”. The newest high-tech items are mostly to be found on the main street, with many kinds of used items found in the back streets and alleyways.  Parts for PC-building are readily available here as are tools, wires and various electronic items are found in the cramped passageways near the station. Akihabara gained some fame as it is also the center of animation culture in Japan – popular with the “otaku”.
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  • Downtown Shitamachi - Shibamata is famous as the home of Tora-san, the lead character in the movie franchise Otoko Wa Tsurai Yo "It's Tough Being a Man" about the adventures of Tora-san, a salesman who explores travels a modernizing Japan, forever falling in love with the wrong people. Tora-san was played by actor Atsumi Kiyoshi.  There is a statue of Tora-san in front of Shibamata Station, and the shopping street leading to Taishakuten Temple has an ample array of mochi shops, all claiming to be the one featured in the movies.
    shitamachi-2.jpg
  • Downtown Shitamachi - Shibamata is famous as the home of Tora-san, the lead character in the movie franchise Otoko Wa Tsurai Yo "It's Tough Being a Man" about the adventures of Tora-san, a salesman who explores travels a modernizing Japan, forever falling in love with the wrong people. Tora-san was played by actor Atsumi Kiyoshi.  There is a statue of Tora-san in front of Shibamata Station, and the shopping street leading to Taishakuten Temple has an ample array of mochi shops, all claiming to be the one featured in the movies.
    shitamachi-1.jpg
  • Downtown Shitamachi - Shibamata is famous as the home of Tora-san, the lead character in the movie franchise Otoko Wa Tsurai Yo "It's Tough Being a Man" about the adventures of Tora-san, a salesman who explores travels a modernizing Japan, forever falling in love with the wrong people. Tora-san was played by actor Atsumi Kiyoshi.  There is a statue of Tora-san in front of Shibamata Station, and the shopping street leading to Taishakuten Temple has an ample array of mochi shops, all claiming to be the one featured in the movies.
    shitamachi-3.jpg
  • Downtown Shitamachi - Shibamata is famous as the home of Tora-san, the lead character in the movie franchise Otoko Wa Tsurai Yo "It's Tough Being a Man" about the adventures of Tora-san, a salesman who explores travels a modernizing Japan, forever falling in love with the wrong people. Tora-san was played by actor Atsumi Kiyoshi.  There is a statue of Tora-san in front of Shibamata Station, and the shopping street leading to Taishakuten Temple has an ample array of mochi shops, all claiming to be the one featured in the movies.
    shitamachi-4.jpg
  • Osu Kannon Temple shopping district is one fo the trendiest areas in Nagoya - specializiing in second hand clothing and other odds-and-ends.
    Osu-Kannon-Shopping-1.jpg
  • Osu Kannon Temple shopping district is one fo the trendiest areas in Nagoya - specializiing in second hand clothing and other odds-and-ends.
    Osu-Kannon-Shopping-2.jpg
  • Osu Kannon Temple shopping district is one fo the trendiest areas in Nagoya - specializiing in second hand clothing and other odds-and-ends.
    Osu-Kannon-Shopping-9.jpg
  • Osu Kannon Temple shopping district is one fo the trendiest areas in Nagoya - specializiing in second hand clothing and other odds-and-ends.
    Osu-Kannon-Shopping-8.jpg
  • Osu Kannon Temple shopping district is one fo the trendiest areas in Nagoya - specializiing in second hand clothing and other odds-and-ends.
    Osu-Kannon-Shopping-6.jpg
  • Odd Japanese Products: Soup Splash Guard - Japan has long been one step ahead of the rest of the world technologically. Most people, however, don’t recognize Japan for its innovations or creativity, let alone its knack for all out fantasy.   Some inventions are clever, a few are even brilliant ideas, while others are absurd but in an interesting way.  It has become such a “thing” that there is even a word for it: chindogu.  Mr Kenji Kawakami, an inventor and founder of tofugu.com.  Kawakami describes the products as un-useless, which is to say almost useful but at the same time, so outlandish that people would not want to be seen using them.  He also has a few rules for chindogu:  products may not only be funny but sort of useful and products must represent freedom, never taboo and not patented.  Finally, the products must not be for sale.  Well, a few of them have slipped through the cracks.  Anything to make a buck!   Even 100 Yen shop chain Daiso now has inflatable tits.  Another gold mine for shopping for un-useless products is Don Quijote or “donki” as it is known in Japan.  A few popular items: Lipstick guide stencils for klutses who can’t apply makeup without smudges; karaoke mufffled microphone so you can belt out that song without anyone hearing it;  nose enhancers, and even inflatable swan-shaped penis extenders!
    odd-products-12.jpg
  • Odd Japanese Products; Inflatable Swan Penis - Japan has long been one step ahead of the rest of the world technologically. Most people, however, don’t recognize Japan for its innovations or creativity, let alone its knack for all out fantasy.   Some inventions are clever, a few are even brilliant ideas, while others are absurd but in an interesting way.  It has become such a “thing” that there is even a word for it: chindogu.  Mr Kenji Kawakami, an inventor and founder of tofugu.com.  Kawakami describes the products as un-useless, which is to say almost useful but at the same time, so outlandish that people would not want to be seen using them.  He also has a few rules for chindogu:  products may not only be funny but sort of useful and products must represent freedom, never taboo and not patented.  Finally, the products must not be for sale.  Well, a few of them have slipped through the cracks.  Anything to make a buck!   Even 100 Yen shop chain Daiso now has inflatable tits.  Another gold mine for shopping for un-useless products is Don Quijote or “donki” as it is known in Japan.  A few popular items: Lipstick guide stencils for klutses who can’t apply makeup without smudges; karaoke mufffled microphone so you can belt out that song without anyone hearing it;  nose enhancers, and even inflatable swan-shaped penis extenders!
    odd-products-11.jpg
  • Odd Japanese Products; Inflatable Swan Penis - Japan has long been one step ahead of the rest of the world technologically. Most people, however, don’t recognize Japan for its innovations or creativity, let alone its knack for all out fantasy.   Some inventions are clever, a few are even brilliant ideas, while others are absurd but in an interesting way.  It has become such a “thing” that there is even a word for it: chindogu.  Mr Kenji Kawakami, an inventor and founder of tofugu.com.  Kawakami describes the products as un-useless, which is to say almost useful but at the same time, so outlandish that people would not want to be seen using them.  He also has a few rules for chindogu:  products may not only be funny but sort of useful and products must represent freedom, never taboo and not patented.  Finally, the products must not be for sale.  Well, a few of them have slipped through the cracks.  Anything to make a buck!   Even 100 Yen shop chain Daiso now has inflatable tits.  Another gold mine for shopping for un-useless products is Don Quijote or “donki” as it is known in Japan.  A few popular items: Lipstick guide stencils for klutses who can’t apply makeup without smudges; karaoke mufffled microphone so you can belt out that song without anyone hearing it;  nose enhancers, and even inflatable swan-shaped penis extenders!
    odd-products-10.jpg
  • Odd Japanese Products: Animal Hot Pad - Japan has long been one step ahead of the rest of the world technologically. Most people, however, don’t recognize Japan for its innovations or creativity, let alone its knack for all out fantasy.   Some inventions are clever, a few are even brilliant ideas, while others are absurd but in an interesting way.  It has become such a “thing” that there is even a word for it: chindogu.  Mr Kenji Kawakami, an inventor and founder of tofugu.com.  Kawakami describes the products as un-useless, which is to say almost useful but at the same time, so outlandish that people would not want to be seen using them.  He also has a few rules for chindogu:  products may not only be funny but sort of useful and products must represent freedom, never taboo and not patented.  Finally, the products must not be for sale.  Well, a few of them have slipped through the cracks.  Anything to make a buck!   Even 100 Yen shop chain Daiso now has inflatable tits.  Another gold mine for shopping for un-useless products is Don Quijote or “donki” as it is known in Japan.  A few popular items: Lipstick guide stencils for klutses who can’t apply makeup without smudges; karaoke mufffled microphone so you can belt out that song without anyone hearing it;  nose enhancers, and even inflatable swan-shaped penis extenders!
    odd-products-04.jpg
  • Odd Japanese Products: Extreme Fire - Japan has long been one step ahead of the rest of the world technologically. Most people, however, don’t recognize Japan for its innovations or creativity, let alone its knack for all out fantasy.   Some inventions are clever, a few are even brilliant ideas, while others are absurd but in an interesting way.  It has become such a “thing” that there is even a word for it: chindogu.  Mr Kenji Kawakami, an inventor and founder of tofugu.com.  Kawakami describes the products as un-useless, which is to say almost useful but at the same time, so outlandish that people would not want to be seen using them.  He also has a few rules for chindogu:  products may not only be funny but sort of useful and products must represent freedom, never taboo and not patented.  Finally, the products must not be for sale.  Well, a few of them have slipped through the cracks.  Anything to make a buck!   Even 100 Yen shop chain Daiso now has inflatable tits.  Another gold mine for shopping for un-useless products is Don Quijote or “donki” as it is known in Japan.  A few popular items: Lipstick guide stencils for klutses who can’t apply makeup without smudges; karaoke mufffled microphone so you can belt out that song without anyone hearing it;  nose enhancers, and even inflatable swan-shaped penis extenders!
    odd-products-01.jpg
  • Odd Japanese Products: Cupman- Japan has long been one step ahead of the rest of the world technologically. Most people, however, don’t recognize Japan for its innovations or creativity, let alone its knack for all out fantasy.   Some inventions are clever, a few are even brilliant ideas, while others are absurd but in an interesting way.  It has become such a “thing” that there is even a word for it: chindogu.  Mr Kenji Kawakami, an inventor and founder of tofugu.com.  Kawakami describes the products as un-useless, which is to say almost useful but at the same time, so outlandish that people would not want to be seen using them.  He also has a few rules for chindogu:  products may not only be funny but sort of useful and products must represent freedom, never taboo and not patented.  Finally, the products must not be for sale.  Well, a few of them have slipped through the cracks.  Anything to make a buck!   Even 100 Yen shop chain Daiso now has inflatable tits.  Another gold mine for shopping for un-useless products is Don Quijote or “donki” as it is known in Japan.  A few popular items: Lipstick guide stencils for klutses who can’t apply makeup without smudges; karaoke mufffled microphone so you can belt out that song without anyone hearing it;  nose enhancers, and even inflatable swan-shaped penis extenders!
    odd-products-02.jpg
  • Odd Japanese Products; Inflatable Swan Penis - Japan has long been one step ahead of the rest of the world technologically. Most people, however, don’t recognize Japan for its innovations or creativity, let alone its knack for all out fantasy.   Some inventions are clever, a few are even brilliant ideas, while others are absurd but in an interesting way.  It has become such a “thing” that there is even a word for it: chindogu.  Mr Kenji Kawakami, an inventor and founder of tofugu.com.  Kawakami describes the products as un-useless, which is to say almost useful but at the same time, so outlandish that people would not want to be seen using them.  He also has a few rules for chindogu:  products may not only be funny but sort of useful and products must represent freedom, never taboo and not patented.  Finally, the products must not be for sale.  Well, a few of them have slipped through the cracks.  Anything to make a buck!   Even 100 Yen shop chain Daiso now has inflatable tits.  Another gold mine for shopping for un-useless products is Don Quijote or “donki” as it is known in Japan.  A few popular items: Lipstick guide stencils for klutses who can’t apply makeup without smudges; karaoke mufffled microphone so you can belt out that song without anyone hearing it;  nose enhancers, and even inflatable swan-shaped penis extenders!
    odd-products-09.jpg
  • Odd Japanese Products: Massage Roller Japan has long been one step ahead of the rest of the world technologically. Most people, however, don’t recognize Japan for its innovations or creativity, let alone its knack for all out fantasy.   Some inventions are clever, a few are even brilliant ideas, while others are absurd but in an interesting way.  It has become such a “thing” that there is even a word for it: chindogu.  Mr Kenji Kawakami, an inventor and founder of tofugu.com.  Kawakami describes the products as un-useless, which is to say almost useful but at the same time, so outlandish that people would not want to be seen using them.  He also has a few rules for chindogu:  products may not only be funny but sort of useful and products must represent freedom, never taboo and not patented.  Finally, the products must not be for sale.  Well, a few of them have slipped through the cracks.  Anything to make a buck!   Even 100 Yen shop chain Daiso now has inflatable tits.  Another gold mine for shopping for un-useless products is Don Quijote or “donki” as it is known in Japan.  A few popular items: Lipstick guide stencils for klutses who can’t apply makeup without smudges; karaoke mufffled microphone so you can belt out that song without anyone hearing it;  nose enhancers, and even inflatable swan-shaped penis extenders!
    odd-products-03.jpg
  • Japanese Action Heros at Toei Studio Park or Toei Uzumasa Eigamura is a film set and theme park in Kyoto.  Besides being where Japanese period movies are filmed known as jidaigeki’ or period dramas. The park also features ninja shows, oiron processions, seasonal events, dress-up-like-geisha studios, a haunted house and the ubiquitous shopping.  The park’s buildings are made up of Edo period traditional buildings including reproduction of Nihonbashi Bridge, and now defunct Yoshiwara Red Light District.  The structures are also used as backdrops for filming historical movies or television dramas. 
    toei-studio-park-action-hero-3.jpg
  • Japanese Action Heros at Toei Studio Park or Toei Uzumasa Eigamura is a film set and theme park in Kyoto.  Besides being where Japanese period movies are filmed known as jidaigeki’ or period dramas. The park also features ninja shows, oiron processions, seasonal events, dress-up-like-geisha studios, a haunted house and the ubiquitous shopping.  The park’s buildings are made up of Edo period traditional buildings including reproduction of Nihonbashi Bridge, and now defunct Yoshiwara Red Light District.  The structures are also used as backdrops for filming historical movies or television dramas. 
    toei-studio-park-action-hero-2.jpg
  • Japanese Action Heros at Toei Studio Park or Toei Uzumasa Eigamura is a film set and theme park in Kyoto.  Besides being where Japanese period movies are filmed known as jidaigeki’ or period dramas. The park also features ninja shows, oiron processions, seasonal events, dress-up-like-geisha studios, a haunted house and the ubiquitous shopping.  The park’s buildings are made up of Edo period traditional buildings including reproduction of Nihonbashi Bridge, and now defunct Yoshiwara Red Light District.  The structures are also used as backdrops for filming historical movies or television dramas. 
    toei-studio-park-action-hero-4.jpg
  • Japanese Action Heros at Toei Studio Park or Toei Uzumasa Eigamura is a film set and theme park in Kyoto.  Besides being where Japanese period movies are filmed known as jidaigeki’ or period dramas. The park also features ninja shows, oiron processions, seasonal events, dress-up-like-geisha studios, a haunted house and the ubiquitous shopping.  The park’s buildings are made up of Edo period traditional buildings including reproduction of Nihonbashi Bridge, and now defunct Yoshiwara Red Light District.  The structures are also used as backdrops for filming historical movies or television dramas. 
    toei-studio-park-action-hero-5.jpg
  • Japanese Action Heros at Toei Studio Park or Toei Uzumasa Eigamura is a film set and theme park in Kyoto.  Besides being where Japanese period movies are filmed known as jidaigeki’ or period dramas. The park also features ninja shows, oiron processions, seasonal events, dress-up-like-geisha studios, a haunted house and the ubiquitous shopping.  The park’s buildings are made up of Edo period traditional buildings including reproduction of Nihonbashi Bridge, and now defunct Yoshiwara Red Light District.  The structures are also used as backdrops for filming historical movies or television dramas. 
    toei-studio-park-action-hero-1.jpg
  • Fake  Boobs - Japan has long been one step ahead of the rest of the world technologically. Most people, however, don’t recognize Japan for its innovations or creativity, let alone its knack for all out fantasy.   Some inventions are clever, a few are even brilliant ideas, while others are absurd but in an interesting way.  It has become such a “thing” that there is even a word for it: chindogu.  Mr Kenji Kawakami, an inventor and founder of tofugu.com.  Kawakami describes the products as un-useless, which is to say almost useful but at the same time, so outlandish that people would not want to be seen using them.  He also has a few rules for chindogu:  products may not only be funny but sort of useful and products must represent freedom, never taboo and not patented.  Finally, the products must not be for sale.  Well, a few of them have slipped through the cracks.  Anything to make a buck!   Even 100 Yen shop chain Daiso now has inflatable tits.  Another gold mine for shopping for un-useless products is Don Quijote or “donki” as it is known in Japan.  A few popular items: Lipstick guide stencils for klutses who can’t apply makeup without smudges; karaoke mufffled microphone so you can belt out that song without anyone hearing it;  nose enhancers, and even inflatable swan-shaped penis extenders!
    odd-products-08.jpg
  • Fake  Boobs - Japan has long been one step ahead of the rest of the world technologically. Most people, however, don’t recognize Japan for its innovations or creativity, let alone its knack for all out fantasy.   Some inventions are clever, a few are even brilliant ideas, while others are absurd but in an interesting way.  It has become such a “thing” that there is even a word for it: chindogu.  Mr Kenji Kawakami, an inventor and founder of tofugu.com.  Kawakami describes the products as un-useless, which is to say almost useful but at the same time, so outlandish that people would not want to be seen using them.  He also has a few rules for chindogu:  products may not only be funny but sort of useful and products must represent freedom, never taboo and not patented.  Finally, the products must not be for sale.  Well, a few of them have slipped through the cracks.  Anything to make a buck!   Even 100 Yen shop chain Daiso now has inflatable tits.  Another gold mine for shopping for un-useless products is Don Quijote or “donki” as it is known in Japan.  A few popular items: Lipstick guide stencils for klutses who can’t apply makeup without smudges; karaoke mufffled microphone so you can belt out that song without anyone hearing it;  nose enhancers, and even inflatable swan-shaped penis extenders!
    odd-products-06.jpg
  • Fake  Boobs - Japan has long been one step ahead of the rest of the world technologically. Most people, however, don’t recognize Japan for its innovations or creativity, let alone its knack for all out fantasy.   Some inventions are clever, a few are even brilliant ideas, while others are absurd but in an interesting way.  It has become such a “thing” that there is even a word for it: chindogu.  Mr Kenji Kawakami, an inventor and founder of tofugu.com.  Kawakami describes the products as un-useless, which is to say almost useful but at the same time, so outlandish that people would not want to be seen using them.  He also has a few rules for chindogu:  products may not only be funny but sort of useful and products must represent freedom, never taboo and not patented.  Finally, the products must not be for sale.  Well, a few of them have slipped through the cracks.  Anything to make a buck!   Even 100 Yen shop chain Daiso now has inflatable tits.  Another gold mine for shopping for un-useless products is Don Quijote or “donki” as it is known in Japan.  A few popular items: Lipstick guide stencils for klutses who can’t apply makeup without smudges; karaoke mufffled microphone so you can belt out that song without anyone hearing it;  nose enhancers, and even inflatable swan-shaped penis extenders!
    odd-products-07.jpg
  • Japan has long been one step ahead of the rest of the world technologically. Most people, however, don’t recognize Japan for its innovations or creativity, let alone its knack for all out fantasy.   Some inventions are clever, a few are even brilliant ideas, while others are absurd but in an interesting way.  It has become such a “thing” that there is even a word for it: chindogu.  Mr Kenji Kawakami, an inventor and founder of tofugu.com.  Kawakami describes the products as un-useless, which is to say almost useful but at the same time, so outlandish that people would not want to be seen using them.  He also has a few rules for chindogu:  products may not only be funny but sort of useful and products must represent freedom, never taboo and not patented.  Finally, the products must not be for sale.  Well, a few of them have slipped through the cracks.  Anything to make a buck!   Even 100 Yen shop chain Daiso now has inflatable tits.  Another gold mine for shopping for un-useless products is Don Quijote or “donki” as it is known in Japan.  A few popular items: Lipstick guide stencils for klutses who can’t apply makeup without smudges; karaoke mufffled microphone so you can belt out that song without anyone hearing it;  nose enhancers, and even inflatable swan-shaped penis extenders!
    odd-products-05.jpg
  • Amerikamura or American Village is usually referred to by locals in Osaka as "Ame-mura." It is a retail and entertainment area near Shinsaibashi in Minami district of Osaka, and caters to young Japanese consumers with countless clothing shops carrying the latest trendy goods.  Though Japanese high schools are notoriously strict in their dress codes, overlooked are accessories such as flashy charms to dangle from cellphones, exotic socks or mufflers and hats that can be put on before or after school.
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  • Amerikamura or American Village is usually referred to by locals in Osaka as "Ame-mura." It is a retail and entertainment area near Shinsaibashi in Minami district of Osaka, and caters to young Japanese consumers with countless clothing shops carrying the latest trendy goods.  Though Japanese high schools are notoriously strict in their dress codes, overlooked are accessories such as flashy charms to dangle from cellphones, exotic socks or mufflers and hats that can be put on before or after school.
    america-mura-2.jpg
  • Kappabashi Ceramics Shop - Kappabashi, an area of Asakusa Tokyo, has long been a popular shopping area for people in restaurant businesses.
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  • On the 21st of each month, a famous flea market is held on the grounds of Toji Temple Market. This market is also called Kobo-san, in honor of Kobo Daishi, who died on March 21st. The flea market features a variety of antiques, art, clothes, pottery, some food, and typical second-hand flea market goods. By far the largest market is held on December 21st, as it is the last of the year.
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  • On the 21st day of each month, the normally tranquil grounds of Kyoto's Toji Temple erupt in a burst of color unlike anything else in Japan. There's anything from hand crafts, discounted shampoo,religious paraphernalia, used kimonos and antiques. This is the place to go wild since it offers the largest variety of quality and prices that you're likely to see in one place...
    toji-market-2.jpg
  • On the 21st day of each month, the normally tranquil grounds of Kyoto's Toji Temple erupt in a burst of color unlike anything else in Japan. There's anything from hand crafts, discounted shampoo,religious paraphernalia, used kimonos and antiques. This is the place to go wild since it offers the largest variety of quality and prices that you're likely to see in one place...
    toji-market-4.jpg
  • On the 21st day of each month, the normally tranquil grounds of Kyoto's Toji Temple erupt in a burst of color unlike anything else in Japan. There's anything from hand crafts, discounted shampoo,religious paraphernalia, used kimonos and antiques. This is the place to go wild since it offers the largest variety of quality and prices that you're likely to see in one place...
    toji-market-5.jpg
  • Used Kimono at Kitano Tenmangu Market- On the 25th of every month, the shrine hosts a flea market. Together with the similar market at Toji Temple, they inspired the Kyoto proverb, "Fair weather at Toji Market means rainy weather at Tenjin market," referring to Kyoto's fickle weather.
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  • Ladies in kimono at Kitano Tenmangu Shrine Market - On the 25th of every month, the shrine hosts a flea market. Together with the similar market at Toji Temple, they inspired the Kyoto proverb, "Fair weather at Toji Market means rainy weather at Tenjin market," referring to Kyoto's fickle weather.
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  • On the 21st day of each month, the normally tranquil grounds of Kyoto's Toji Temple erupt in a burst of color unlike anything else in Japan. There's anything from hand crafts, discounted shampoo,religious paraphernalia, used kimonos and antiques. This is the place to go wild since it offers the largest variety of quality and prices that you're likely to see in one place...
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  • Nishiki Market Pickle Shop - Nishiki Market is a narrow shopping street made up of more than one hundred vendors.  Various kinds of fresh foods including many Kyoto specialties such as pickles and Japanese sweets, as well as fresh seafood and vegetables are sold.  Known as "Kyoto's Kitchen" Nishiki Market's history goes back several centuries and many stores have been operated by the same families for generations.
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  • Various types of tofu on display at Nishiki Market, a narrow shopping street, lined with more than one hundred shops. Various kinds of fresh foods including many Kyoto specialties such as pickles, Japanese sweets,  sushi, and fresh seafood and vegetables are sold.  Known as "Kyoto's Kitchen" Nishiki Market has a history of several centuries and many stores have been operated by the same families for generations.
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  • Nishiki Market Arcade is a narrow shopping street, lined with more than one hundred shops. Various kinds of fresh foods including many Kyoto specialties such as pickles, Japanese sweets,  sushi, and fresh seafood and vegetables are sold.  Known as "Kyoto's Kitchen" Nishiki Market has a history of several centuries and many stores have been operated by the same families for generations.
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  • Nishiki Market is a narrow shopping street, lined with more than one hundred shops. Various kinds of fresh foods including many Kyoto specialties such as pickles, Japanese sweets,  sushi, and fresh seafood and vegetables are sold.  Known as "Kyoto's Kitchen" Nishiki Market has a history of several centuries and many stores have been operated by the same families for generations.
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  • Yoshiwara Red Light District at Toei Studio Park or Toei Uzumasa Eigamura is a film set and theme park in Kyoto.  Besides being where Japanese period movies are filmed known as jidaigeki’ or period dramas. The park also features ninja shows, oiron processions, seasonal events, dress-up-like-geisha studios, a haunted house and the ubiquitous shopping.  The park’s buildings are made up of Edo period traditional buildings including reproduction of Nihonbashi Bridge, and now defunct Yoshiwara Red Light District.  The structures are also used as backdrops for filming historical movies or television dramas. 
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  • Ninjas at Toei Studio Park or Toei Uzumasa Eigamura is a film set and theme park in Kyoto.  Besides being where Japanese period movies are filmed known as jidaigeki’ or period dramas. The park also features ninja shows, oiron processions, seasonal events, dress-up-like-geisha studios, a haunted house and the ubiquitous shopping.  The park’s buildings are made up of Edo period traditional buildings including reproduction of Nihonbashi Bridge, and now defunct Yoshiwara Red Light District.  The structures are also used as backdrops for filming historical movies or television dramas. 
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  • Ninjas at Toei Studio Park or Toei Uzumasa Eigamura is a film set and theme park in Kyoto.  Besides being where Japanese period movies are filmed known as jidaigeki’ or period dramas. The park also features ninja shows, oiron processions, seasonal events, dress-up-like-geisha studios, a haunted house and the ubiquitous shopping.  The park’s buildings are made up of Edo period traditional buildings including reproduction of Nihonbashi Bridge, and now defunct Yoshiwara Red Light District.  The structures are also used as backdrops for filming historical movies or television dramas. 
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  • Chestnuts at Nishiki Market - the narrow shopping street made up of more than one hundred vendors.  Various kinds of fresh foods including many Kyoto specialties such as pickles and Japanese sweets, as well as fresh seafood and vegetables are sold.  Known as "Kyoto's Kitchen" Nishiki Market's history goes back several centuries and many stores have been operated by the same families for generations.
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  • Yoshiwara Red Light District at Toei Studio Park or Toei Uzumasa Eigamura is a film set and theme park in Kyoto.  Besides being where Japanese period movies are filmed known as jidaigeki’ or period dramas. The park also features ninja shows, oiron processions, seasonal events, dress-up-like-geisha studios, a haunted house and the ubiquitous shopping.  The park’s buildings are made up of Edo period traditional buildings including reproduction of Nihonbashi Bridge, and now defunct Yoshiwara Red Light District.  The structures are also used as backdrops for filming historical movies or television dramas. 
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  • Ninja Show at Toei Studio Park or Toei Uzumasa Eigamura is a film set and theme park in Kyoto.  Besides being where Japanese period movies are filmed known as jidaigeki’ or period dramas. The park also features ninja shows, oiron processions, seasonal events, dress-up-like-geisha studios, a haunted house and the ubiquitous shopping.  The park’s buildings are made up of Edo period traditional buildings including reproduction of Nihonbashi Bridge, and now defunct Yoshiwara Red Light District.  The structures are also used as backdrops for filming historical movies or television dramas. 
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  • Yoshiwara Red Light District at Toei Studio Park or Toei Uzumasa Eigamura is a film set and theme park in Kyoto.  Besides being where Japanese period movies are filmed known as jidaigeki’ or period dramas. The park also features ninja shows, oiron processions, seasonal events, dress-up-like-geisha studios, a haunted house and the ubiquitous shopping.  The park’s buildings are made up of Edo period traditional buildings including reproduction of Nihonbashi Bridge, and now defunct Yoshiwara Red Light District.  The structures are also used as backdrops for filming historical movies or television dramas. 
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  • Ninja Theater  at Toei Studio Park or Toei Uzumasa Eigamura is a film set and theme park in Kyoto.  Besides being where Japanese period movies are filmed known as jidaigeki’ or period dramas. The park also features ninja shows, oiron processions, seasonal events, dress-up-like-geisha studios, a haunted house and the ubiquitous shopping.  The park’s buildings are made up of Edo period traditional buildings including reproduction of Nihonbashi Bridge, and now defunct Yoshiwara Red Light District.  The structures are also used as backdrops for filming historical movies or television dramas. 
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  • Ninja Show at Toei Studio Park or Toei Uzumasa Eigamura is a film set and theme park in Kyoto.  Besides being where Japanese period movies are filmed known as jidaigeki’ or period dramas. The park also features ninja shows, oiron processions, seasonal events, dress-up-like-geisha studios, a haunted house and the ubiquitous shopping.  The park’s buildings are made up of Edo period traditional buildings including reproduction of Nihonbashi Bridge, and now defunct Yoshiwara Red Light District.  The structures are also used as backdrops for filming historical movies or television dramas. 
    toei-studio-park-ninja-show-1.jpg
  • Ninjas at Toei Studio Park or Toei Uzumasa Eigamura is a film set and theme park in Kyoto.  Besides being where Japanese period movies are filmed known as jidaigeki’ or period dramas. The park also features ninja shows, oiron processions, seasonal events, dress-up-like-geisha studios, a haunted house and the ubiquitous shopping.  The park’s buildings are made up of Edo period traditional buildings including reproduction of Nihonbashi Bridge, and now defunct Yoshiwara Red Light District.  The structures are also used as backdrops for filming historical movies or television dramas. 
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  • Ninjas at Toei Studio Park or Toei Uzumasa Eigamura is a film set and theme park in Kyoto.  Besides being where Japanese period movies are filmed known as jidaigeki’ or period dramas. The park also features ninja shows, oiron processions, seasonal events, dress-up-like-geisha studios, a haunted house and the ubiquitous shopping.  The park’s buildings are made up of Edo period traditional buildings including reproduction of Nihonbashi Bridge, and now defunct Yoshiwara Red Light District.  The structures are also used as backdrops for filming historical movies or television dramas. 
    toei-studio-park-ninja-1.jpg
  • Diety of Good Fortune at Toei Studio Park or Toei Uzumasa Eigamura is a film set and theme park in Kyoto.  Besides being where Japanese period movies are filmed known as jidaigeki’ or period dramas. The park also features ninja shows, oiron processions, seasonal events, dress-up-like-geisha studios, a haunted house and the ubiquitous shopping.  The park’s buildings are made up of Edo period traditional buildings including reproduction of Nihonbashi Bridge, and now defunct Yoshiwara Red Light District.  The structures are also used as backdrops for filming historical movies or television dramas. 
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  • Jidaigeki Behind the Scenes at Toei Studio Park or Toei Uzumasa Eigamura is a film set and theme park in Kyoto.  Besides being where Japanese period movies are filmed known as jidaigeki’ or period dramas. The park also features ninja shows, oiron processions, seasonal events, dress-up-like-geisha studios, a haunted house and the ubiquitous shopping.  The park’s buildings are made up of Edo period traditional buildings including reproduction of Nihonbashi Bridge, and now defunct Yoshiwara Red Light District.  The structures are also used as backdrops for filming historical movies or television dramas. 
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  • Jidaigeki Behind the Scenes at Toei Studio Park or Toei Uzumasa Eigamura is a film set and theme park in Kyoto.  Besides being where Japanese period movies are filmed known as jidaigeki’ or period dramas. The park also features ninja shows, oiron processions, seasonal events, dress-up-like-geisha studios, a haunted house and the ubiquitous shopping.  The park’s buildings are made up of Edo period traditional buildings including reproduction of Nihonbashi Bridge, and now defunct Yoshiwara Red Light District.  The structures are also used as backdrops for filming historical movies or television dramas. 
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  • Anime Characters at Toei Studio Parkor Toei Uzumasa Eigamura is a film set and theme park in Kyoto.  Besides being where Japanese period movies are filmed known as jidaigeki’ or period dramas. The park also features ninja shows, oiron processions, seasonal events, dress-up-like-geisha studios, a haunted house and the ubiquitous shopping.  The park’s buildings are made up of Edo period traditional buildings including reproduction of Nihonbashi Bridge, and now defunct Yoshiwara Red Light District.  The structures are also used as backdrops for filming historical movies or television dramas. 
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  • Anime Characters at Toei Studio Parkor Toei Uzumasa Eigamura is a film set and theme park in Kyoto.  Besides being where Japanese period movies are filmed known as jidaigeki’ or period dramas. The park also features ninja shows, oiron processions, seasonal events, dress-up-like-geisha studios, a haunted house and the ubiquitous shopping.  The park’s buildings are made up of Edo period traditional buildings including reproduction of Nihonbashi Bridge, and now defunct Yoshiwara Red Light District.  The structures are also used as backdrops for filming historical movies or television dramas. 
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  • Anime Characters at Toei Studio Parkor Toei Uzumasa Eigamura is a film set and theme park in Kyoto.  Besides being where Japanese period movies are filmed known as jidaigeki’ or period dramas. The park also features ninja shows, oiron processions, seasonal events, dress-up-like-geisha studios, a haunted house and the ubiquitous shopping.  The park’s buildings are made up of Edo period traditional buildings including reproduction of Nihonbashi Bridge, and now defunct Yoshiwara Red Light District.  The structures are also used as backdrops for filming historical movies or television dramas. 
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  • Anime Characters at Toei Studio Parkor Toei Uzumasa Eigamura is a film set and theme park in Kyoto.  Besides being where Japanese period movies are filmed known as jidaigeki’ or period dramas. The park also features ninja shows, oiron processions, seasonal events, dress-up-like-geisha studios, a haunted house and the ubiquitous shopping.  The park’s buildings are made up of Edo period traditional buildings including reproduction of Nihonbashi Bridge, and now defunct Yoshiwara Red Light District.  The structures are also used as backdrops for filming historical movies or television dramas. 
    toei-studio-park-anime-3.jpg
  • Anime Characters at Toei Studio Parkor Toei Uzumasa Eigamura is a film set and theme park in Kyoto.  Besides being where Japanese period movies are filmed known as jidaigeki’ or period dramas. The park also features ninja shows, oiron processions, seasonal events, dress-up-like-geisha studios, a haunted house and the ubiquitous shopping.  The park’s buildings are made up of Edo period traditional buildings including reproduction of Nihonbashi Bridge, and now defunct Yoshiwara Red Light District.  The structures are also used as backdrops for filming historical movies or television dramas. 
    toei-studio-park-anime-2.jpg
  • Anime Characters at Toei Studio Parkor Toei Uzumasa Eigamura is a film set and theme park in Kyoto.  Besides being where Japanese period movies are filmed known as jidaigeki’ or period dramas. The park also features ninja shows, oiron processions, seasonal events, dress-up-like-geisha studios, a haunted house and the ubiquitous shopping.  The park’s buildings are made up of Edo period traditional buildings including reproduction of Nihonbashi Bridge, and now defunct Yoshiwara Red Light District.  The structures are also used as backdrops for filming historical movies or television dramas. 
    toei-studio-park-anime-1.jpg
  • Nishiki Market is a narrow shopping street made up of more than one hundred vendors.  Various kinds of fresh foods including many Kyoto specialties such as pickles and Japanese sweets, as well as fresh seafood and vegetables are sold.  Known as "Kyoto's Kitchen" Nishiki Market's history goes back several centuries and many stores have been operated by the same families for generations.
    nishiki-3.jpg
  • Yoshiwara Red Light District at Toei Studio Park or Toei Uzumasa Eigamura is a film set and theme park in Kyoto.  Besides being where Japanese period movies are filmed known as jidaigeki’ or period dramas. The park also features ninja shows, oiron processions, seasonal events, dress-up-like-geisha studios, a haunted house and the ubiquitous shopping.  The park’s buildings are made up of Edo period traditional buildings including reproduction of Nihonbashi Bridge, and now defunct Yoshiwara Red Light District.  The structures are also used as backdrops for filming historical movies or television dramas. 
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  • Yoshiwara Red Light District at Toei Studio Park or Toei Uzumasa Eigamura is a film set and theme park in Kyoto.  Besides being where Japanese period movies are filmed known as jidaigeki’ or period dramas. The park also features ninja shows, oiron processions, seasonal events, dress-up-like-geisha studios, a haunted house and the ubiquitous shopping.  The park’s buildings are made up of Edo period traditional buildings including reproduction of Nihonbashi Bridge, and now defunct Yoshiwara Red Light District.  The structures are also used as backdrops for filming historical movies or television dramas. 
    toei-studios-park-yoshiwara-04.jpg
  • Yoshiwara Red Light District at Toei Studio Park or Toei Uzumasa Eigamura is a film set and theme park in Kyoto.  Besides being where Japanese period movies are filmed known as jidaigeki’ or period dramas. The park also features ninja shows, oiron processions, seasonal events, dress-up-like-geisha studios, a haunted house and the ubiquitous shopping.  The park’s buildings are made up of Edo period traditional buildings including reproduction of Nihonbashi Bridge, and now defunct Yoshiwara Red Light District.  The structures are also used as backdrops for filming historical movies or television dramas. 
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  • Ninjas at Toei Studio Park or Toei Uzumasa Eigamura is a film set and theme park in Kyoto.  Besides being where Japanese period movies are filmed known as jidaigeki’ or period dramas. The park also features ninja shows, oiron processions, seasonal events, dress-up-like-geisha studios, a haunted house and the ubiquitous shopping.  The park’s buildings are made up of Edo period traditional buildings including reproduction of Nihonbashi Bridge, and now defunct Yoshiwara Red Light District.  The structures are also used as backdrops for filming historical movies or television dramas. 
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  • The entrance to Roppongi Hills, Tokyo's newest entertainment and shopping complex. The escalator leads down to even more shops and the Tokyo Subway.
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  • Yoshiwara Red Light District at Toei Studio Park or Toei Uzumasa Eigamura is a film set and theme park in Kyoto.  Besides being where Japanese period movies are filmed known as jidaigeki’ or period dramas. The park also features ninja shows, oiron processions, seasonal events, dress-up-like-geisha studios, a haunted house and the ubiquitous shopping.  The park’s buildings are made up of Edo period traditional buildings including reproduction of Nihonbashi Bridge, and now defunct Yoshiwara Red Light District.  The structures are also used as backdrops for filming historical movies or television dramas. 
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  • Diety of Good Fortune at Toei Studio Park or Toei Uzumasa Eigamura is a film set and theme park in Kyoto.  Besides being where Japanese period movies are filmed known as jidaigeki’ or period dramas. The park also features ninja shows, oiron processions, seasonal events, dress-up-like-geisha studios, a haunted house and the ubiquitous shopping.  The park’s buildings are made up of Edo period traditional buildings including reproduction of Nihonbashi Bridge, and now defunct Yoshiwara Red Light District.  The structures are also used as backdrops for filming historical movies or television dramas. 
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  • Takeshita Street in Harajuku, is a pedestrian shopping street that caters to young Japanese,  selling mostly clothes and fashion accessories.
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  • Ameyoko or Ameyocho is a busy shopping street dominated by small market-style stalls selling a wide variety of wares especially fish. Ameyoko runs parallel to the JR railway line with its large market under the railway tracks.
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  • Amerikamura or American Village is usually referred to by locals in Osaka as "Ame-mura." It is a retail and entertainment area near Shinsaibashi in Minami district of Osaka, and caters to young Japanese consumers with countless clothing shops carrying the latest trendy goods.  Though Japanese high schools are notoriously strict in their dress codes, overlooked are accessories such as flashy charms to dangle from cellphones, exotic socks or mufflers and hats that can be put on before or after school.
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  • Skyights over Nishiki Market -   a narrow shopping street made up of more than one hundred vendors.  Various kinds of fresh foods including many Kyoto specialties such as pickles and Japanese sweets, as well as fresh seafood and vegetables are sold.  Known as "Kyoto's Kitchen" Nishiki Market's history goes back several centuries and many stores have been operated by the same families for generations.
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  • Shikina-en offers a rare chance to escape the crowds, shopping and concrete of Okinawa's largest city.  Shikinaen Garden and Palace were constructed at the end of the 18th century as a second home for the royal family of Okinawa and to entertain VIP guests.  Designed as a strolling garden, it is meant to be walked around rather than viewed from one particular point. The garden incorporates both Japanese and Chinese aspects of gardening combined with tropical plants, which makes it uniquely Okinawan.
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  • Shikina-en offers a rare chance to escape the crowds, shopping and concrete of Okinawa's largest city.  Shikinaen Garden and Palace were constructed at the end of the 18th century as a second home for the royal family of Okinawa and to entertain VIP guests.  Designed as a strolling garden, it is meant to be walked around rather than viewed from one particular point. The garden incorporates both Japanese and Chinese aspects of gardening combined with tropical plants, which makes it uniquely Okinawan.
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  • Shikina-en offers a rare chance to escape the crowds, shopping and concrete of Okinawa's largest city.  Shikinaen Garden and Palace were constructed at the end of the 18th century as a second home for the royal family of Okinawa and to entertain VIP guests.  Designed as a strolling garden, it is meant to be walked around rather than viewed from one particular point. The garden incorporates both Japanese and Chinese aspects of gardening combined with tropical plants, which makes it uniquely Okinawan.
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  • Shikina-en offers a rare chance to escape the crowds, shopping and concrete of Okinawa's largest city.  Shikinaen Garden and Palace were constructed at the end of the 18th century as a second home for the royal family of Okinawa and to entertain VIP guests.  Designed as a strolling garden, it is meant to be walked around rather than viewed from one particular point. The garden incorporates both Japanese and Chinese aspects of gardening combined with tropical plants, which makes it uniquely Okinawan.
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  • Tsukemono Pickles at Nishiki Market  - a narrow shopping street made up of more than one hundred vendors.  Various kinds of fresh foods including many Kyoto specialties such as pickles and Japanese sweets, as well as fresh seafood and vegetables are sold.  Known as "Kyoto's Kitchen" Nishiki Market's history goes back several centuries and many stores have been operated by the same families for generations.
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  • Yes, Christmas is celebrated in Japan but usually only as an excuse to have a party, a large dinner (almost never turkey) and  gift giving.  In short, it is the festive mood that attracts the Japanese who are oblivous to its original religious significance.  On the other hand there is no pretense about it in Japan - it is simply a commercial venture of gift shopping, admiring decorations and dinner party time.
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  • Shikina-en offers a rare chance to escape the crowds, shopping and concrete of Okinawa's largest city.  Shikinaen Garden and Palace were constructed at the end of the 18th century as a second home for the royal family of Okinawa and to entertain VIP guests.  Designed as a strolling garden, it is meant to be walked around rather than viewed from one particular point. The garden incorporates both Japanese and Chinese aspects of gardening combined with tropical plants, which makes it uniquely Okinawan.
    shikina-en-11.jpg
  • Shikina-en offers a rare chance to escape the crowds, shopping and concrete of Okinawa's largest city.  Shikinaen Garden and Palace were constructed at the end of the 18th century as a second home for the royal family of Okinawa and to entertain VIP guests.  Designed as a strolling garden, it is meant to be walked around rather than viewed from one particular point. The garden incorporates both Japanese and Chinese aspects of gardening combined with tropical plants, which makes it uniquely Okinawan.
    shikina-en-6.jpg
  • Shikina-en offers a rare chance to escape the crowds, shopping and concrete of Okinawa's largest city.  Shikinaen Garden and Palace were constructed at the end of the 18th century as a second home for the royal family of Okinawa and to entertain VIP guests.  Designed as a strolling garden, it is meant to be walked around rather than viewed from one particular point. The garden incorporates both Japanese and Chinese aspects of gardening combined with tropical plants, which makes it uniquely Okinawan.
    shikina-en-1.jpg
  • Shikina-en offers a rare chance to escape the crowds, shopping and concrete of Okinawa's largest city.  Shikinaen Garden and Palace were constructed at the end of the 18th century as a second home for the royal family of Okinawa and to entertain VIP guests.  Designed as a strolling garden, it is meant to be walked around rather than viewed from one particular point. The garden incorporates both Japanese and Chinese aspects of gardening combined with tropical plants, which makes it uniquely Okinawan.
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  • Second hand Kimonos on sale.  Second-hand Kimonos are a popular item among foreign tourists and younger Japanese.
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