Game Centers
Japan has an equivalent to Canada's Arcades, and that is geemusen (short for geemu sentaa, which is Engrish for Game Center) These places sport much more than just arcade games- they ALWAYS have a variety of "crane games" (you know, control the grabby-thing to pick up a prize), and often have purikura (short for purinto kurabu, Engrish for Print Club), which are booths where you can climb in and take a series of photos of yourself (and friends!), then draw on them, or stamp cute flowers/hearts/stars on them as you see fit, then have them printed out in a variety of sizes. All for 3 bucks. Girls love these things. You have _NO_ idea.
Tokyo Tower et al
May 10th 2007 Want an ego boost? Be me, the other day, walking in Shinjuku. I was just walking along, wearing some of my new clothes and sporting some fancy hairdo I'd made up for the day, and I walked by an entire class of high school students. As was fairly typical fashion even for us in high school, all the guys were in 1 group, and all the girls were in another. The girls' group was in the front, and as so
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