Den Den Town

While our stay in Osaka, we visited a nice little area called Den Den town.  What I’ve noticed was how the consumer market was as far was shopping went.  Since I was there, very few places for shopping were inside a mall.  Every place we went to that had an inkling of shopping was outside somewhere or easily accessible.  Anyway, we more or less broke off into groups and wandered around.  What I enjoyed seeing was the electronics as well as the computers that they had.  The most interesting one that I found was the laptop with an LCD screen where the touch panel for the mouse was.  Now perhaps it’s because I’m kind if a big kid or my inner nerd was trying to come out, but I moved over to the area where all the toys were and I ran into a store that had a lot of figurines of characters from animes past and present.  These were things that I’ve seen in the back of gaming magazines years ago and is more or less hard to find in the states unless you were willing to pay a hefty price for them.  Den Den town and many other areas similar to Den Den town are something that wasn’t a culture shock, it was just an awesome thing to see.

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