100yen shop

This is TV ad of TYLENO in Canad. look there is Haruhi on the wall!

This is the site of a Japanese artist living in NY. She creates miniature paper towns and people. Here is the town of Tokyo, Osaka. Kawaii!!

I must tell you, Seattle and Vancouver's bathroom situation was little bit better than California. But still I gave up using it when I visited a Greek restaurant in Vancouver. Since the food was great, I was sorry I couldn't enjoy drink (cause I didn't want to go to the bathroom). ｡｡In Japan, many nice restaurants have the washlet type that Madonna said she missed a lot before. This is the latest toilet of TOTO. It has no tank, the cover opens and closes automatically with a sensor, various types of water stream on the washlet, etc. I love it.

I was very surprised to see a BIG 100yen shop DAISO in Richmond in Vancouver. I can tell you that the shop has almost same line up as Daiso in Japan. But the price is a little bit higher (actually some of stuff was not $1). I visited a 99cents shop in Seattle, though things were not so good for me. Of course Japanese 100yen shops have a lot of trash, though they also have very nice and reasonable items. This blog picks such nice items that she found in 100yen shops. ｡｡And also the 100yen shop itself evolves. Natural kitchen is a 100yen shop that has a nice natural mood and sells cute products. Here are some photos of the shop. Looks nice, right? And also we have ! 300yen shops and 1000yen shops. I didn't try the 1000yen shop yet but it looks pretty good.

Comments

[gabuchan]

Jeff,
a good site to check for all stuff fun. if you read japanese check out hiroburo.com good site.

[abraxis]

We have a Daiso right outside San Francisco. Since it's a big store (and part of a chain), we can't have it in San Francisco.

But we can visit Daiso while we go to le Tar-get!

[Peter]

Japanese toilets are simply the best in the world, when I was in Japan the other week I was admiring them yet again, the rest of the world should adopt this incredibly civilised toilet. I love that jet of water, it always seems to hit the right spot and you can adjust the strength of the water flow, would be great to have them in the UK!

[Jeff]

How do you find stuff like that papercraft site?? That's great.

When I lived in Queens in NYC, we had a Japanese 100 yen store near us (I can't remember the name, but it was a chain from Japan). It was amazing compared to American 99 cent stores. We bought a lot of stuff there. I won't even go into most 99 cent stores, they're too low class.