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Best. Wristband. Evar. (20 of 52)

This is not from the Ikebukuro Animate store. I bought this in Akihabara, in a much smaller store filled with lots of robo models.


Finally, The Stamps (21 of 52)

Okay! Finally, we get to the stamps. We were in the tour bus on our way from Sunshine City (Ikeburuko, Tokyo) to Mt. Fuji and Lake Ashi (which I wrote down as Ashii, which I thought was how they said...) when we stopped at the Dangozaka Service Area on Chuo Expressway. (Annoyingly, I didn't take a picture of the service area. It was nice, it was large, it had a garden area, restrooms, a restaurant, small grocery, that sort of thing. This is the view from in front of the station, looking across the parking lot to the mountains.) Someone (I don't remember who) noticed this big round stamp with ink pad, like we'd seen at Namjatown, only much larger, and we made stamps. After that, annathepiper and I were on constant stamps vigil! And we saw them everywhere.

The blue stamps in the upper section came - I think - from Station 5 on Mt. Fuji. Thanks to the typhoon, we couldn't see much mountain, which was sad! But we did see the head of the walking trail, a small shrine area, the larger building of which had a really cool ceiling, and a bunch of other things at station five. (I have lots more photos but I'm only posting so many.) The Ultraman stamps came from the dock station (warning: large AVI) from which we cruised around the lake seeing the various sights. Also, Paul joined the pirates!

After the lake tour (in a typhoon, which made it all kinds of interesting), we took the Hakone cable cars up the hill (also in a typhoon), where we found (at the top) the cable-car stamp you see in red. At one point at the top, Anna and Paul briefly turned into a cartoon bear and schoolgirl.