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What cool stuff should I get my sister to bring me back from Japan?

Yukata are nice as a kind of 'dressing gown':

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_float_ said:
Yukata are nice as a kind of 'dressing gown':

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Heh... my first two days in Japan I stayed at a hotel where complimentary yukata were provided (as do most). Obviously, having just graduated I did the honourable student thing and nicked it.

Two weeks later in my new home in a very very rural small village the neighbour calls and I answer the door in my yukata. She immediately recognises it as a stolen hotel item.... :o - word goes out that the town gaijin is a cleptomaniac. Over the years, I too, realised that the yukata in hotels are all basically the same colour and style. One of many fuck ups - including accidentally asking (whilst trying out my Japanese and getting it horribly horribly wrong) my school principal if he had masturbated that weekend... :o:D
 
gaijingirl said:
Heh... my first two days in Japan I stayed at a hotel where complimentary yukata were provided (as do most). Obviously, having just graduated I did the honourable student thing and nicked it.

Two weeks later in my new home in a very very rural small village the neighbour calls and I answer the door in my yukata. She immediately recognises it as a stolen hotel item.... :o - word goes out that the town gaijin is a cleptomaniac. Over the years, I too, realised that the yukata in hotels are all basically the same colour and style. One of many fuck ups - including accidentally asking (whilst trying out my Japanese and getting it horribly horribly wrong) my school principal if he had masturbated that weekend... :o:D
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:D

When speaking French, I once told my friend's dad that I had trouble reversing out of a parking space because there were a load of children masturbating in the car park :o

Some great ideas here people, cheers! I am assuming my sister knows about Shinjuku as she has been to Tokyo before and is staying with an old school friend too this time (who is Japanese). I have seen those koi fish before gg but I think Elliot would love one.

And heh at the crap English t-shirts. That would be good
 
Shippou-Chan said:
great balls of fire

i first memorised the hirigana for ta by thinking of TAnuki the top stroke is the hat and the two lower strokes are the protuding ballsack
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I'm currently teaching my beginners class (aged 12 or so) hiragana - they're very enthusiastic and I always get them to tell me what they think the hiragana characters look like- I often get "A" is a fish on a stick, for example. "TA" is the one character that really looks anything vaguely like the sound it represents in English... ie..


た


Only you - truely, only you could come up with a tanuki's balls...
 
trashpony said:
The actual boxes rather than the food you mean? That would be good :)

Is a 100 yen shop like a pound shop? :D
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Yes but with good stuff. 100 yen is more like 50p (or it used to be until rather recently) I stock up on all the silly little things I need back in the UK, plus you can get tones of very Japanese bits and bobs for gifts for only 50p each. Bowls, hashi, fans, bento boxes, soyu dishes. There is also tones of wacky stuff but if you want to do the wacky thing properly go to Tokyo Hands costume and party department.
 
A Totoro plushie :D (dunno if you've ever seen My Neighbour Totoro?) - make sure it's a Ghibli certified one though, cause there are loads of cheap knockoffs out there :(.

If it were me, I'd say manga drawing supplies, but unless you do any kind of artwork like that, they'd be pretty useless to you :P but the Bento box idea is good. See if she can bring you back some Pocky (chocolate dipped wafer sticks) and Ramune (lemonade that tastes like bubblegum - it's nice though - and comes in the most amazing bottle). Yum!
 
More or less anything from Kiddyland in Shibuya (staked with Hello Kitty, Sanrio, Studio Ghibili etc etc) - I became a bit obsessed with Nyanko characters (little cats that disguise themselves as food and other household items).

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Near to Kiddyland there's a good shop which sells lots of traditional Japanese style items - totally geared up for tourists looking for yukata etc, but we picked up lots of good stuff here - a nice sake set for instance is a fairly transportable gift. I've got a huge wedding kimono we bought there for £40, which sadly turned out to be too big to display anywhere in our flat, so is languishing in the loft.

Tokyu Hands (sp?) seconded or thirded for odd little gadgety things.
 
Shippou-Chan said:
tie back the sleeves
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quite spookily enough, I was wondering how one did that, just the other day, fond as I am of kimono (tho not wearing any at the moment) and not really enjoying soggy sleeves (handwashing, nothing exotic), so many thanks shippers old bean :D
 
 
The doll I was on about was made of plastic not wood, they just used to be in the big supermarkets in Korea and Japan, it was a little dude with a rocking head, no idea what they were called, might have just been the cheap version of kokeshis
 
I sent her a few suggestions yesterday and she hasn't replied. She didn't actually offer to bring me anything it must be said :o

I want loads of that stuff. That knitted cat food stuff looks ace beeboo.
They already brought back a load of ghibli cuddlies last time they went - my brother in law is a bit obsessed with studio ghibli.

I really need to go to Japan don't I?
 
Yes you do. I really need to go back to Japan. When I went I was cash-strapped so I was really holding back on frivolous spending. I would go NUTS now :D
 
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