[spectre]

I'll be in japan very soon, but I don't really know what sorts of cool things to get, and I don't want to waste this opportunity so...any ideas? Things you've been meaning to import, new gizmos you've read about...or whatever.

thanks.

[Kiai]

Definitely, definitely, definitely go with food. Try a few places right around the area you end up in, little soba shops, beef bowls, or curry houses. If there's a coco ichibanya's stop there. Okonamiyaki is excellent as well. Make sure you find yourself in a sushi bar with a rotating conveyer belt. Visit a bar with at least one alchoholic drink and get merry until the japanese man next to you tries to grope your breasts. Explore, and don't be afraid to take pictures with people you think are kawaii. Cute rules here!

Visit at least one naughty store. Visit a one hundred yen store and buy something totally oddball. Go to a department store and buy a cell phone that plays movies, mp3's, and uplinks with a vending machine. Oh yeah, you have to buy something weird out of a vending machine. Vending machine culture in japan means you can get almost anything. Get a picture of you in front of a historic place, interesting landmark, or just plain weird/funny object/store/wherever.

Explore, explore, explore! Buy a traditional japanese fan and take part in a kabuki theatre reproduction. Find the most colourful kimono and try it on, but don't buy it. Walk up to a random person listening to an ipod/iriver/media player, and exchange headphones. The japanese always love hearing something quirky, so what you hear from them should always be interesting. Ask a person for directions in english and try to sort out in sign language where and what you want to do.

Wear the most revealing clothes you have and make a total stranger buy something for you (73|-| £\/!|_), Don't bother buying games or media, they won't work on your equipment due to region codes. Get a vodaphone. Buy porn. Go to a lawsons/7 eleven/family mart and buy a sandwich. Climb mount fuji. DOT DOT DOT... DOT DOT DOT... DOT DOT DOT... DOT DOT DOT... You can think of a whole bunch of stuff. Explore and feel free to experiment.

[Scar da Kookee]

Oh yeah, you have to buy something weird out of a vending machine. Vending machine culture in japan means you can get almost anything.

i hear that. I heard you can even buy beer from a vending machine

[Maverick]

you can buy panties from a vending machine

[Hawkeye]

Toilet paper (in front of public lavatory)

or

Water from hot springs

or

Blood type-based condoms

just a few things you can buy from a Japanese Vending machine, however I hear the Beer vending machine are being phased out....

[Chimasterwang]

Some things you can get from vending machines XD
Fishing line, hooks, and bait
Live lobsters
Rhinoceros beetles (sold as children’s pets)
Kerosene
Dry ice
Fried squid
Farm-fresh eggs
Farm-fresh vegetables

Also buy a post card and send it to Lynk =P

[tai]

vending machines of japan:
http://www.photomann.com/japan/machines/

i'd definitly use this time to grab some whacky stuff, anime merchandise, one of the Razor Ramen Hard Gay toys, and mabye the Hard Gay Cookbook.
i hear you can get horse-sized condoms there too....

[spectre]

horse-sized condoms

Definite purchase.

Good tips, keep it coming!

[Analog]

I tried to find BGC 2040 LD #13 in Akihabara, but didn't meet with success. I saw a few stores with more anime figurines than I could count. In general, if you can get it outside of Japan easily, don't buy it there... it'll be twice as expensive as any other place in the world just about.

If I had more time though I would have bought a ticket on the bullet train and rode it all over Japan

[Hawkeye]

Some things you can get from vending machines XD
Fishing line, hooks, and bait
Live lobsters
Rhinoceros beetles (sold as children?s pets)
Kerosene
Dry ice
Fried squid
Farm-fresh eggs
Farm-fresh vegetables

Also buy a post card and send it to Lynk =P

Hey you coped it form Wikipedia..... Opp's so did I XP

Learn to uses chopsticks and go to a proper noodlebar...

[darktruth]

Hmm...what about a ramune bottle? Unless you've already tried it, the funny thing is how a lot of people who've never had it have trouble trying to open the bottle.

[Chimasterwang]

See if you can get any type of food with a strange and unusual filling XD

[spectre]

are those the bottles with the little glass balls that you press into the bottle and it sits there and stuff? Pretty neat

[Hawkeye]

You know I was reading yesterday newspaper and their a new type of vending machine in Japan..... It coin opertated but after you made your selection it's handed to you by a cute girl inside the machine..... That right a cute girl inside the machine?

[Lynk Former]

XD Bless those Japanese

[Hawkeye]

Yes but to wonder if you can get the Cute girl as your vending buy? XP

[Lynk Former]

I didn't think of that, but then again I don't need to pay for such things XD

[Black Howling]

lets just say the japanese and there vending machines sheer genuis XD

[Hawkeye]

I await the day that you can buy an SU-33 from a Vending machine.... XD