watashi to tokyo

Japanese hand crafts monopoly and Kaiyodo figures

Limited Monopoly "ZIPUNG" is Japanese Traditional Art Craft Edition MONOPOLY incorporates plenty of artwork and history, capturing the charm of traditional Japanese crafts while keeping the fun of monopoly intact. You need to travel all across Japan and collect same color Japanese crafts, then build workshops or department stores.

By the way, if you want to buy real craft work of Japan in Tokyo, the best and convenient place would be Japanese traditional crafts Aoyama Square. It is only gallery & shop where Officially designated Traditional craft products of various places throughout whole country gather in Japan. The hand crafts are very beautiful but of course very expensive.

Talking about traditional hand crafts toys, Japanese figure maker Kaiyodo makes traditional toy crafts series collaborating with Nakagawa Masashichi Shoten. Nakagawa Masashichi Shoten is the hand crafts maker established in 1716. Even they are such old maker, their products have contemporary high design. Automatically Kaiyodo's toy figures are highly accurate and repetitive manufacturing of traditional toys. You can buy those at Haneda airport, Tokyo Sky tree Town in Tokyo area, Tokyo Mid town or of course Nakagawa Masaichi Shoten head shop.

 

The collection of weird Japanese games

This is the collection of weird Japanese games. How many games do you know?

1. Hatoful Boyfriend :PC/Mac /2011.
Hatoful Boyfriend is an interactive text-based visual novel with the player's decisions determining which of the game's multiple endings. You are a girl and boys are all birds.

2. Mister Mosquito : Playstation 2 /2001.
You are an mosquito and need to get blood with escaping from humans in the house.

3. Muscle March : Wii/2009.
Shiny Macho guys like an American boxer, a British female bodybuilder, a top hat wearing Spaniard, a Norwegian polar bear etc need to catch a thief who stole protein.

4. Seaman : Dreamcast-PS2/1999
A virtual pet video game. Communicate with a fish with human face.

5.Katamari Damacy : PS2/2004
I loooooooooooove this game, I wrote about this often before, this game is most popular and famous  funny strange game.

6. Catherine : PS3/Xbox 360 /2011
Virtual dating game with Catherine.  She is unique and fun girl.  There are some erotic part too.

7. School Days : PC/DVDプレーヤー/PS2/PSP /2005
At first sight, regular dating game with cute girls, however the ending is shocking.

8. Cho Chabudai Gaeshi : arcade /2010
In very old days, a male‐dominated society, some bossy father was described to do like this when he angry much.

9. I'm Sorry :arcade /1985
Do you know model is Japanese ex president Kakuei Tanaka maybe.

10. Japan World Cup3 :Browser game /2012
I love this too! Super weird horse race game.

11. Cubivore: Survival of the Fittest : Game cube /2002

Cubic animal survival game. You need to be top of animal world by fighting.

12. Tonno :Mac game /1994
This is not simple wired game, it's like very interesting psychological test. I think this was not localized into English.

13. Incredible Crisis : PS /1999
Four family memembers who forget grandma's birthday try to go home in time for her birthday party. Fun action game.

14. Toilet kids : PC engine /1992
This game was said the king of kusoge, check it out the legend.

15. The Houchi Play :Xbox360 /2012
Okay, INDIE GAMER CHICK say "Japan, what the fuck? Seriously, this is why you can’t have nice things. Well, that and the constant Godzilla attacks."

Very unique recruiting tryouts for surgical students.

Very very interseting! KURASHIKI CENTRAL HOSPITAL presents recruiting tryouts for surgical students.

Beautiful Mt.Fuji and best spot for photos.

phantastic420 has beautiful Mt.Fuji pictures on his Instantgram. Especially people love this one and get hot in the world.

This photo would be taken at one of best spot to see Mt.Fuji and flowers "Yamanakako Hananomiyako Park". You can see such beautiful Fuji in four seasons here.

 

 

In Japan, not only home address, we put name plate called Hyosatsu. at a front door or gate. In recent years, there are various type of design in Hyosatsu.

Mino Craft is a maker of name plate in Gifu and their products are a little bit unique. This is manga Hyosatsu. Hyosatsu has manga panel like design. And they will release "Holy sword" Hyosatsu next. Looks like a brave live in the house.

Speaking of Manga panel, did I write about Manga camera before? 　It is an iPhone app which works as filter to change your photos into manga panel like. It's very popular and fun app. Here is a information video.

cost of rent in Tokoy

I read this news ”After Going Viral, Outer Sunset 'Pod Guy' Selling Custom Pods”. The rent cost of LA seems more expensive than Tokyo. I am not sure though. For example, this room is in Kanda area, very center of Tokyo cost 69000yen ($710 or so?). The room has 9.56m size, then it has water place, toilet and small shower at least.　If you don’t mind super old apartment, there are less than $300 places in center of Tokoy too.　Personally dining out and lunch cost in Tokyo are cheaper than big cities in the U.S. Although cost of foods in the U.S super market are cheaper than Tokyo. Hmm Tokyo is reasonable place to live now I guess.

Husky Girls

A bit old one. But nice one. Husky Girls（Funny Japanese Ajinomoto Stadium ad）

Paint! Gundam model in skin color

ガンプラ "Gunpla" is a portmanteau of "Gundam plastic model". It is established as the hobby of assembling and painting them. Since Gundam is so big in this country, well high quality models are on sale at high cost.

For example, this Gundam was made a bid at about \920,000 ($9,200). Here is that builder's webside"Mesarion" and even I who has no interests to Gunpla can tell he did very delicate hand works.

By the way, I prefer to this one, "Paint Gundam in nude color".  Legs are sexy and Gundam get to be very cute.

A popular TV ad of Amazon Japan

A popular TV ad of Amazon Japan. People say this is cute, but as a big fan of dog, personally can't agree :-p

Sorry Freddie Mercury!

S.H.Figure is Japanese toy maker BANDAI's high quality figure series. They use the latest technologies to achieve unprecedented sculpting, posability, and coloring. Last month, they has released Freddie Mercury wearing costume of Live at Wembley '86.

Freddie is very real so that people make him use as TOY. Oh well literally it is Toy, but I feel bad a bid coz I like him very much.