Rain in Sunshine City

It was a rainy day, a very rainy day, I expected 30+ °C and sun, but got rain and ~23°C.

Cold and WET WET WET are some good descriptions for this day. I had to buy an umbrella, otherwise I would have gone crazy.

I had planned Ikebukuro and 3 Book Offs (the Book Offs were canceled, but the one in Sunshine City)

My treasures at Book Off were Monster Hunter DOS, Seiken Densetsu 4 and Pokémon sapphire - less than 1.000 Yen for all the goods, I also discovered this, but the price was way to high.

Then I went to the newe Pokémon Center Mega Tokyo after searching a bit, it's than it was in Hamamatsuch, just enjoy the pictures

The cashiers had numbers and Pokémon - pleae pay at Torchic..

This entry is over now, see you tomorrow in Nakano, espeially Nakano broadway.

MANDARAKE - Rulers of Time on Japan-Sunday

It's Japan-Sunday, so today I present to you a great shop in Japan, it's MANDARAKE!!!

Mandarake is a shop for preowned articles of any otaku kind, they offer anime, manga, games, CDs, DVDs, figurines, artbooks, dojinshis.

The first shop opened in 1980 in Nakano (Tokyo), there are other shops in Tokyo: Akihabara, Shibuya & Ikebukuro.

In Nakano Broadway there are several stores

Akihabara - HUGE Building

Throughout Japan there's one in Osaka, Fukuoka and other cities.

Manga

To give you preview how it looks inside and what they offer, here are some pictures:

Count Chocola next to Betty Boop

Hard to understand the different sections

Also many strange and also fascinating articles

 

If you're on a trip to Japan, especially Tokyo, you deffinitely have to visit one of the Mandarake Stores, I normally find something everytime, Monster Hunter and Dragon Quest figurines, some old retro games and guide books and video game artbooks are my favorite.

Closer look at the MANDARAKE - Shop: http://www.mandarake.co.jp/

I hope you can make comparable experiences and find the right goods for yourself.

They also offer many old STAR WARS articles - 2010 I saw a Light Saber replica signed by Samual L. Jackson for 80,000 Yen (600+ $)

That's it for Japan-Sunday, see you soon.