On time!

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Gamecubes! Loads of them! Cheap as free! Keep in mind that 100 yen is roughly equivalent to about $1.20 Canadian at the time of my typing this.


This stand was outside a store in Osu, which is a giant shopping arcade in downtown Nagoya. Shopping arcades are brilliant - just long streets of shops that are totally pedestrian-only and covered by a glass (or thick plastic/plexi-glass) roof, usually about four or five stories up. Arcades are usually full of hustle and bustle, and it's a good place to find discount items - everything from clothes to gamecubes to little bits of PC that I can't identify. The whole shop was just a mecca of cheap used computer parts and I'm sure that if I was remotely interested in building my own Japanese computer I would have been in heaven. As it was, I bought a cat5 cable and skedaddled. Osu also has food stalls, grocery stores, shoe shops, figurine stores, music places, furniture stores, jewellery shops, tea shops, a bakery.... tons of awesome stuff. I do need to go there more often - it's a 15-minute hike from Sakae, though I could suck it up and pay the extra 200yen subway fare, but I tend to get happily lost in Osu, so it's best left for weekends when I don't have much else to do.