1/14-2/16/06: Taiki/Obihiro

So far, outside of touring around southern Japan, I've been generally just hanging out in Taiki and Obihiro (a larger city about an hour from Taiki taking the freeway with really slow speed limits). Here are some fun pictures and observations about both. [photo: Taiki across the street from apartment]




Food.

Fruits and veggies are much, much bigger in Japan. This is a normal green onion. They don't come any smaller than about 2.5 feet long.

But oddly enough, in Hokkaido, sushi is kind of hard to come by. We did find one Marine Boy in Obihiro that sold sushi on conveyor belts.

Also, some products were never meant to be.

Clothes.
There is a hot underwear line called Black Men.

Instead of The Godfather they have The Concrete.

Their jackets are dirty whores.

And I'm quite sure that no samurai ever said his soul was this brand of loincloth.

Stores/Toys/Tire Robots
This is a chain of stores called Hard-Off.

You can buy anything from Tofu Friends and Keychain Poop....

To Keychain underwear and panties.

Don't forget your nose pump.

I love the Tire Robot next to the freeway.

Sex Machines

Arcade Crane for Vibrators, or Time of an Adults.

But for more variety, there are just general sex toy vending machines. A lot of them.