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Omi Fair video taken on March 2, 2014 at Takashimaya Dept. Store in Nihonbashi, Tokyo. Funazushi, Omi beef, Biwa pearls, and more. We also saw Hiko-nyan.
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Way to Takashimaya Dept. Store in Nihonbashi subway station.
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Way to Takashimaya Dept. Store in Nihombashi subway station.
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Takashimaya Department Store in Nihombashi, Tokyo. Takashimaya got its name from Takashima, Shiga Prefecture.
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Takashimaya got its name from Takashima, Shiga Prefecture.
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1st floor of Takashimaya Dept. Store.
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Exhibit of Nagahama bonsai plum trees and folding screen from Hikone, 1st floor of Takashimaya Dept. Store during the Grand Omi Fair.
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Folding screen from Hikone (National Treasure).
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PR exhibit for the Grand Omi Fair on the 8th floor.
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Welcome to Akihabara! (Or Akiba for short.) Japan and Tokyo's largest cluster of electronics shops.
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1st floor of Takashimaya Dept. Store.
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Grand Omi Fair on 8th floor
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JR Akihabara Station
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Always a crowd in front of JR Akihabara Station
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Tourist corner with samurai armor of Hikone's Ii Clan.
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Here's one reason for the crowd...
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And another one. Young pretty/cute girls in costume pass out flyers, but end up being street models for amateur photographers who have no girlfriends to shoot.
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Funa-zushi 鮒寿し
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They are happy to pose...
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The maid costume is all the rage in Japan, for several years now.
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Rice storehouse
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Fish and shellfish from Lake Biwa
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Santa suit appears in Dec.
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Ibuki Ham
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Coming out of Akihabara Station
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Ibuki Ham
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Vegetable jam
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Main drag of Akihabara
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Omi beef, each pack here cost over 2,000 yen. 近江牛
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Train bridge
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Stamp of Approval from Shiga
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Train bridge
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Mochi making
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Train bridge to Akihabara Station
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Mochi
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Under the train bridge is "Radio Center," a cluster of many little stalls selling electronic parts.
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Adoberry sweets, from Adogawa, Takashima.
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Inside Radio Center, where many teens (and future electronics engineers) bought their parts to build their first radio or motor or whatever.
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Adoberry sweets, from Adogawa, Takashima.
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One stall in Radio Center.
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Other side of Akihabara Station
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Entrance to crafts booths. 工芸展
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Going down the main drag (Chuo-dori) of Akihabara.
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Omi crafts booths
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Large and small electronics shops line the main drag on both sides.
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Kimono in the middle costs 1,995,000 yen. However the most expensive thing I saw was a Buddhist altar selling for 40 million yen (lots of gold leaf).
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In autumn, we see fall leaves, a most appropriate sight in Akihabara because "Akihabara" means "Autumn leaves field."
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Making candles.
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Akihabara has undergone a few transformations over the decades. From general electronics, to computers, and now anime and video games.
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Akihabara is also undergoing a major physical transformation with the new Tsukuba Express train line, a revamped Akihabara Station, Yodobashi, and several skyscrapers.
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Akiba Square in the new Akihabara UDX (Crossfield) building next to Akihabara Station.
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Former site of Mitsubishi Bank to be transformed soon. This is also the intersection where Tomohiro Kato ran a truck through to hit and kill three pedestrians and went on a street rampage with a knife killing four others on June 8, 2008.
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Don Quixote in the huge building which used to be Minami Denki.
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Inside Don Quixote, Akihabara store
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More fall leaves in Akihabara
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On Sundays, the main drag is closed off to vehicular traffic, allowing us pedestrians to walk on the road.
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It's also when some street performers start to sing.
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Here's a cutie trying to gather attention.
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Another one is happy to sing while a horde of amateur photographers click away.
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They sing on the street to advertise something, usually a night club where they appear.
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The ever-popular maid outfit.
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Maids attract much attention so they are used as living billboards for stores and whatever needs to be advertised in Akihabara.
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Cosplayer teenager posing on the road.
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The problem is that the police patrol the main drag to expel these street performers. It is not allowed. It would be the Japanese police to try and kill Japan's street culture.
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Developed area next to Akihabara Station. Once upon a time, this used to be a wholesale area for fruit. Then an outdoor basketball/skateboard court.
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JR Akihabara Station's new Central entrance faces Yodobashi camera shop.
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JR Akihabara Station's new Central entrance (Yodobashi on the left)
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Inside JR Akihabara Station's new Central entrance. Very nice, very spacious.
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Bus stop near JR Akihabara Station's new Central entrance
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Yodobashi-Akiba, the largest store in Akihabara. Major camera, computer, and electronics store. A favorite store for photographers in Japan.
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Crosswalk to Yodobashi
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Street singer in front of JR Akihabara Station's new Central entrance
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Street singer in front of JR Akihabara Station's new Central entrance. A cute face and miniskirt really help to gather a crowd.
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Her setup is simple. A portable and battery-powered amplifier connected to a microphone. The amp is on a luggage cart. When the police comes, she can pack up and leave within 5 sec.
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These girls usually have a lookout man who watches out for the cops. As soon as he sees one coming, he runs up to her and gives the "Outta here" signal. They're gone before the police can even see them. It's a constant cat and mouse game
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She says that it was her first "Street live performance" (rojo raibu).
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Street performer
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Street performer near Yodobashi-Akiba, the largest store in Akihabara.
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A miniskirted pair
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Sign says "No street performances allowed."
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Yodobashi-Akiba, the largest store in Akihabara. Major camera, computer, and electronics store.
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Yodobashi-Akiba at night
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Shibuya Station
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Tengokoro, for local gifts and products. てんごころ http://www.tengokoro.com/
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Inside Tengokoro.
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Strawberry daifuku is a specialty of Kita-Ibaraki. Made with locally-grown strawberries. Ibaraki is also a major producer of melons in Japan.
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An-chan on a cup of sake.
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Karinto manju.
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Karinto manju from Kita-Ibaraki.
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Pottery by our teacher, Kikuchi Hidetoshi and wife Mie.
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Kikuchi Hidetoshi and wife Mie.
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At Tengokoro, you can make your own dorayaki with azuki bean paste. The shallow ladle contains the perfect amount of batter to make one pancake.
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Dorayaki is like a small pancake sandwich with azuki bean paste in between. Wait until the batter bubbles and flip it over. Perfect each time. The dorayaki batter is very different from pancake batter.
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The final step is to spread some azuki bean paste on one side and compress it into a sandwich. Way more delicious than any dorayaki you buy in a store.
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Our dorayaki teacher and Tengokoro store manager.
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Kurayoshi's Shirakabe White-Wall Warehouses are in a National Important Traditional Townscape Preservation District (重要伝統的建造物群保存地区) named Utsubuki-Tamagawa (打吹玉川).This used to be a castle town until 1615. It was a commercial district up to the 1920s. About 100 traditional buildings with white walls (kura storehouses) and red roof tiles remain. The Tottori earthquake in Oct. 2016 damaged a few white walls. A short bus ride from JR Kurayoshi Station.
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Map of Shirakabe Warehouse district in Kurayoshi. The district is compact, easy to walk around.
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Road where I got off the bus.
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The main kura storehouses here. 赤瓦二号館
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The main Shirakabe kura storehouses in Kurayoshi, Tottori. 赤瓦二号館
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The main Shirakabe kura storehouse in Kurayoshi, Tottori. 赤瓦二号館
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The main Shirakabe kura warehouse in Kurayoshi, Tottori. 赤瓦二号館
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The main Shirakabe kura warehouse in Kurayoshi, Tottori. 赤瓦二号館
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The main Shirakabe kura warehouse in Kurayoshi, Tottori. 赤瓦二号館
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Old Nagahama Heiwado store being torn down in Jan. 2016.
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Old Nagahama Heiwado store being torn down in Jan. 2016.
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A low-rise shopping-restaurant complex called Ekimachi Terrace Nagahama will be built on the old Heiwado site. It later opened on July 29, 2017.
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The inside of the taiko drums is covered with gold leaf for better sound.
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Tokyo Station's old Yaesu Entrance (Daimaru Dept. Store) and new North Tower.
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Tokyo Station Yaesu Entrance (Daimaru Dept. Store) and North Tower 東京駅八重洲
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Tokyo Station Yaesu Entrance (Daimaru Dept. Store) and North Tower
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Built in the mid-1950s, Tokyo Station Yaesu Entrance (Daimaru Dept. Store) 東京駅八重洲中央口
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Tokyo Station Yaesu Entrance (Daimaru Dept. Store)
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Tokyo Station Yaesu Entrance
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Tokyo Station Yaesu Entrance (Daimaru Dept. Store) and South Tower
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Tokyo Station Yaesu Entrance
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Future plans for Yaesu side
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Top floor of Daimaru Dept. Store
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Yaesu Daimaru Dept. Store
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Yaesu Daimaru Dept. Store, to be torn down. 大丸デパート
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The famous Dobuita Street with military shops, bars, etc. "Dobu" means sewer, and "ita" is plank. They once had wooden planks covering a sewer gutter running down the street.
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Dobuita Street wasn't so impressive. Looks very well cleaned up though. I figure most people instead go to Yokohama for night life.
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The street was likely more raunchy and infamous during the 1960s.
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Yokosuka jackets
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Profanity is bad for the children...
 
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