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[solarbird]

More Namjatown stamps (16 of 52)

Lots more stamps from Namjatown! It's fun. ^_^


Communication Maid Cafe "Filles" (17 of 52)

Someone dressed like Yuki (in the staff photos) handed this to me in... Ikebukuro, probably? Akihabara! (blues_kun could read the Kanji, so this is the flyer for the Maid Cafe entrance I photographed in Akihabara, and is in the book out of order.) But while I generally kept these things in time order, I didn't always succeed, and I don't really remember and I can't read the kanji on the map. It's a flyer for a Maid Cafe called Filles. I didn't get a picture of the woman handing out the flyer, tho'. (Can anybody read the station name on the online map in the lower left hand corner?)

ETA: Next door - not in the Maid Cafe, a little bit further down - we got a tasty Hong Kong-import-style shaved ice cream snack. And in that same walk, Mariko saw a drink for sale that she'd been meaning to buy because her mom wanted to try it, and dived into the store that had it to buy one. I started to dive in after and noticed it was actually a sex toys store, and bounced out out again from surprise. A couple of minutes later she came out (having bought the drink) and said (more or less) OMG I'M SO EMBARRASSED WHY IS THAT STORE SELLING SODA?

Comments

[poodlgrl.livejournal.com]

Can you explain more to me of this stamping? I keep seeing this in your journal, and I realize I took a year or so off of life to recover. But I don't understand.

[solarbird]

Right! Okay, so, annathepiper and spazzkat and I were in Japan this summer, and I kept a little travel journal. On the left pages I wrote notes, on the right pages, I collected first stickers and little flyers and stuff, and then, when I figured out the stamp thing (they're all over the place), stamps as well. Stamps are all over Japan, at anything remotely touristy - so you can collect them and show you were there! Anna and I got really good at spotting them - particularly Anna. ^_^

[poodlgrl.livejournal.com]

Can you buy vintage ones? Because that would be really swell.

[solarbird]

Oh, the actual stamps aren't for sale. (Okay, maybe some of them are, but that's not the point. I did buy some very cute Totoro stamps at Moe.) They're left out with ink pads, so you can stamp the image into your travel book, or whatever.

[blues-kun.livejournal.com]

秋葉原駅
あきはばらえき

[solarbird]

ありがとございます！　That means I did get them in the book out of order, probably. (I remembered taking a picture of a Maid Cafe entrance in Akihabara but didn't remember whether it was the one in the flyer. I bet it was, now. It was on a corner of a narrow street intersecting a very large street and we got a tasty Hong Kong-import-style shaved ice cream snack nearby.)