Gaijin • Tokyo • Undergound

On my way to the Super market down the street from my is a relativly new bar called Take Five. Recently they started to display a menu outside to entice you to, take five... a few time passing by i never payed any mind to it until i noticed the engRish. I thought PRISE was preeseh, then relized DUH im in japan, it engRish, for a PRICE list... then notice the strange alcohol name BARBON. Was it sweedish? Ah ok BURBON... sometimes i forget when reading romaji to read it in katakana sounds.

So being in Tokyo, you can find a lot of things from back in America when you are missing a little of home. Ine thing i miss a lot are peanut butter items. Japan isnt big on Peanut Butter, they like PEANUT CREAM... this product is neither delicious or appealing to look at. Over the last year i have noticed super markets starting to carry peanut butter, but a tiny jar can cost you 400-600 yen! As for peanut butter candy, Reeses peanut butter cups or, reeces peices and butter finger are not available easily.
Usually you need a military friend who has access to a US base to go shop at the US market. But its a hassle. Much to my surprise i found in Nishi-Ogikubo a small import shop that carried japanese packaged Butter Fingers! The package has 15 minis for 250 yen. Of course i snagged a bag.

I live in the Ogikubo area in Tokyo and on my day off i wanted to go explore. I decided to wander the back streets to find new things and eventually ended up in Nishi-Ogikubo area, about 20 minutes later. I found a small shop that sold mostly mini tran sets and model cars. There was a small area for figures and one that stood out was this horrible Pepsi man figure! I remember someone had the video game for it and it was utter crap, but the figure, especially the image of the head takes the cake. The head looks like a blow up doll except made out of metal. Seriously who came up with the idea!

Here is a Yui figure from the K-ON!! series which i wasnt so familiar with when i won this figure. I thought it was just cute and the UFO catchers were on a special that day of only 100 yen a play rather than the 200 yen. Luckily i won this on the 1st try! key was hitting it on the corner and down it fell. The winning of this figure has now led me into a K-ON!! otaku frenzy. I have become obsessed with this series and want to get al the figures for them.

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