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shopping in Japan

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Today I was shopping for souvenirs in Shibuya for the gang back home, and wandered into a department store. If this one is any indication of how they are over here, I suspect that Japanese department stores are the most useful anywhere.

Not only was I able to find postcards & souvenirs for a fraction of tourist costs, but I was able to get my camera fixed. I discovered that my camera's batteries were dead and that the likely cause was that a tiny screw had falled out of the camera's base plate. I was able to get not only a new set of batteries but a new screw to hold the whole thing together again.

All told, I loaded down with trinkets and got the camera fixed for less than $CAD 100. The name of the store was "Tokyo Hands".