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Japanese Anime Stores 2

  • 2010年11月15日
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Today the story goes on.
First of all the map which shows a part of Tenjin:

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(red: store; purple: café)
(www.google.com/maps)

After I got away from the dosser I searched for the café named Yasuragi. One of my problems was that I thought it would be a shop..While writing this entry I recognised that it is a café...Only girls are allowed to go in it.
Yasuragi is kinda hidden. You really have to look and somehow know where it is otherwise you'll get a problem.

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Have you found it? To get to the café you have to go up the stairs on the right side of this building. A sign can be seen at the wall left to the stairs:

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It is even written in Romanji :D Therefore it was a bit easier to get to know that this is the right place :)
The whole trip I was kinda afraid of finding only kanji...^^ But no problem with that :D

I went up the stairs mistrustfully. It looked really strainge. More like a building which will be breakaway in a few weeks, days or month. The whole house was very dark..

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This is the first floor. The "shop" wasn't there. Therefore I wanted to get to the next one. Then I feeled confirmed when I saw that a door was locked with a board out of wood.

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Somehow I expected a dosser living in here...I was prepared for nearly everything :S
Just this next floor I thought. If it wouldn't be here I really wanted to leave this place.
But then I saw it:

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The café is on the left side of the corridor. When I thought it was gooing to be better I couldn't enter the café...
Isn't it strange that a door is locked and you can see many shoes through the glass of the door :S
And the way it was closed seemed even more strange to me....

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By knowing too many scary scenes I imaged bad things which could had happened...I looked once again in to search for someone. Even really close to the glass of the door I couldn't see anyone just the shoes :S
Then I decided to leave this place. Should be better!
Just for a few minutes I understood that it is a café and therefore I hadn't to visit it :D

Finished with that I headed back to where I thought ToranoAna would be. I wasn't shure about it. And with all the building workers around I didn't want to fail...

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It is located above Hotto Motto and this blue-yellow internet café which is called Cybac I think. You can see that sign for ToranoAna which says "3F".
So I tried to find a store once again. Just entered the building I wasn't shure where to go next. Therefore I looked at the floorguide.

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There was just one picture od books...Again confused I walked around a bit...After a few minutes had passed I turned around and I got clear that I was inside of the right building :D

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By taking the elevator I got to the store. Of course it wasn't allowed to take pictures...
But this very blurred one from the entrance I could pick.

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At this shop you can buy CDs, DVDs, some games and of course manga.
So I took my route through the shop. First of all I saw many CDs, after that some DVDs and games but that I got confused :S
Without a warning I got to the special mangas which are only for adults. It must had looked really strange. A girl in that section :S By beeing a foreigner it could be maybe not so wrong...A few month ago the same thing happened in a bool off. The men standing there looked at me in a strange and angry way :S
The only thing I was thinking was that they sould be ashamed ^^ Just looking in such books in the middle of normal book shop! Also they shouldn't watch at me in that way because I'm a girl and therefore it is nor so unnormal to see such covers as for men. But that's Japan. Here it is normal to read the book through inside of a shop! Try that in Europ and will have some problems with the shopowner...
So for Japan it is also normal for the men to look in such books inside of a normal shop.

After two month you get used to it. Therefore I was a bit ashamed. I looked confused around and tried to find a safe way on...

At every corner I wasn't shure what there might be. Wherefore I walked slowly and very unshurely..After I found the normal books I lokked for I calmed down and searched for some which I might like :)
But of course it wasn't so easy....a few sections further I was again in a special section which contains the books for adults and I think everyone knows which kind of books these are now.
Turning around I left the shop behind...Nearly entered the elevator I saw some GatchGatch machines :D
After a second try I got a little and very cute baby Chopper :D This one out of the first try I gave to Julia a friend of mine who's making as well an internship right now.

I really could had expected such situation with the special adults books. In the information Ryu-san gave me stood that this shop is for "deep Otaku" (people who are really into manga and anime) and you have to be over 18 to enter this store.
But at that point I really thought that this description whould be for Yasuragi.. :S ^^

I just looked this store up in the internet. Even to enter the online shop you have to say that you are over 18 years old..

The hopefully last part of the story will be written tomorrow :D
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