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As long as I'm missing PAX in Seattle, I might as well shop there in Japan.	The famed super-expensive watermelons, next to my ridiculously small shopping cart.	Each vegetable is individually wrapped. Who needs a sneeze guard? $3 carrots get the royal treatment.
A school of gross-looking fish!	Women everywhere wear these gloves despite it being swelteringly hot, because they don't want to tan. If being pale is cool, then consider me Miles Davis.	A fanboy's dream: Pocky in every flavor of the rainbow.
I think Crunky should be the new rapper-endorsed food snack.	Sometimes it's fun to decipher katakana and realize the word is actually in English. Bakedo-Potato flavor, anyone?	I just bought these Chotos because I wanted to see what "Bourbon Bitter Choco Rusk" tasted like. Actually, pretty much like it sounds.
Blendy! It's such an adorable Joss Whedon term, isn't it? I like my coffee blendy!	Kind of hard to see, but many food displays have tiny DVD players with them, showing short, elaborate commercials about the product. Yeah, if these were in LA, they'd be stolen in 0.05 seconds.	Something neat I passed on the way to getting lost.
I stopped here once for a drink when I was sweating, but judging from the cartoon girl posing seductively on the sign, I'm fairly certain this is a House of Ill Repute.	The Japanese are so polite, even their signs have people bowing on them!	I tell all my friends to turn at the turtle with the construction cone on his back. (If you see the chicken helping his egg across the street, you've gone too far. Not making this up.)
When I only knew half the Japanese alphabet, I could only tell that this said "Chizu." Now I know that the rest says "Hamu-catsu" (Ham cuts?), and I am very relieved to know I haven't been eating cheesy tentacles or something.	Who doesn't want a notebook with a Lovely Party dog or Rascal the racoon?	Happy Call Sound Telephone List!
I buy a lot of candy just because it looks interesting. This was kind of a marshmallow with a burst of some fruit inside.	I don't think I need to justify this awesome purchase. Will Engrish ever cease to be funny?	This is my bike. I put a kitty sticker on it because virtually every bike in Japan looks exactly like this.
The lights of southern Kofu.	I don't know what this place is, but I want to go there. I think.	Denizu! With nothing even remotely resembling food I know and love!
At first I thought it was weird to have sinks in the middle of restaurants, but I find myself using them all the time. Handlebars are dirty!	Desserts are pretty good in Japan. They sometimes have cornflakes thrown in with the ice cream, but it actually goes quite well.	I got all this at the hundred-yen store for under 10 bucks!
I got all this at the discount Westerner store for under 30 bucks!	A successful day of shopping.