Kyoto

[tikistitch]

So, here`s the deal: we're in Kyoto now, where the Internet Police only let us have 15 minutes online per day, and we can't upload photos yet, 'cause there's no WiFi for the Tiki-pooter.

AND, the UFO catcher machines in this country are rigged!!!!!

But, yesterday, guess what??

We had walked around the city viewing various shrines and temples all day. We'd walked approximately 842,000 miles. We would whine more, except we noticed that among the crowd at the hilltop temple complex we visited were many, many, many Japanese girls wearing stiletto heels.

The observant Mr. Tikistitch had noticed we were beginning to get cranky.

"Wanna go to the Stitch store?" he ventured?

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEe!!!!!!!!!!

The address we had indicated Takashimaya, which is a huuuuuuuuuuuumongous department store in downtown Kyoto. (It's still just a chibi store next to some of the monstrous markets Yoda-san dragged us through last Tuesday in Tokyo, but still.) Anyways, we couldn't grok that a Disney store would actually be inside another store, so we spent some minutes prowling around the J-shopper clogged streets. At length, Mr. Tiki posited that we go inside Takashimaya, and find our way to the toy department.

Well, guess what?

A J-STITCH STORE! Full of J STITCHES! Crammed to the ceiling!

....

(Sorry, our brain just melted.)

Oops, the Internet Police have arrived. Gotta go.....

Comments

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, department stores in East Asia are like collections of other stores, almost...

[sarahpolk.livejournal.com]

When I lived in Japan we used to call them "cradle to caskets" because the department stores really did sell everything.

[sarahpolk.livejournal.com]

The Takashimaya in Singapore was also like that, with its own Disney Store inside. Alas, NOT ONE STITCH.

[bittenbefore.livejournal.com]

woot u found stitch store!!
fabulous!

[dustbunnies.livejournal.com]

Oi, someone else mentioned that the UFO machines were fixed. Though claw machines here are fixed too. How do so many UFO plushies end up on ebay if its so hard? I had always asumed it would be easy, since there were so many. There goes my dreams. *sniff*

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

We're thinkin' maybe the sellers have a connection to the suppliers? I mean, ya gotta buy the plushies somewhere.

We got an amazing action photo last night of a guy fixing a UFO machine.

[blythou.livejournal.com]

A Stitch Store... Ahhhhhh... Talk about dying and waking up in heaven !

[onesoul.livejournal.com]

you guys are driving us nuts!!!! once you return... I demand photographic proof of everything you saw and did and all the fun you had there. I want pictures!!!!!!