Sideshow Marge

The fashion shop in Tenmonkan that had a picture of Bart crashing into the window changed it right after I ran the photo on my blog. Now, we have an odd version of Marge.

The flier is an ad for Demon Sword stickers and stuff, some of which is already sold out.

Waterpipe Caps

Pareidolia is the brain's tendency to see shapes or faces where they aren't.
What comes to mind here?

Anzen Dekiru

Found this rather curiously-worded set of signs outside a restaurant in the collection of shops near Amu Plaza.
"Can be safe shop." (Can translate to: "You can feel safe here.")
"Kagoshima black pork. Please try it."

Doraemon Chocolate Egg Toy

It's been quite a while since I last saw the chocolate egg toys at Donkey, and I've been thinking about them recently.



This afternoon (I'm writing this on March 30th) I noticed a full display stand of boxes of Doraemon eggs advertising the latest movie, The New Dinosaur. They're close to 200 yen ($1.80 USD) with tax, which is more than I normally want to pay for these things (even though I like the little amount of chocolate you get with them, and I wanted the toy for the blog), but I was hoping that I'd get lucky with a toy that I liked on the first try. And I did. It's about 1.25" tall, but nicely detailed (better than the Dydo DBZ Goku).



That tail disturbs me, though.

Vent Vert Chicken Day

"Chicken" is "niwatori" in Japanese.
"28" can be read as "ni" plus "wa." With some handwaving, we get the 28th as "kowatori" day.

Reimeikan Gate Mar. 26

Getting closer to the official opening of the gate, on a rainy, gloomy day.







I'm pretty sure now that this little hut is going to be a shrine housing of some kind.

Satsuma Gunyon

I was on the street car the other day, and I noticed that the ad sheets inside were for a weird thing called "Satsuma Gunyon" (Satsuma is the old name for Kagoshima). It's tied into something I've been seeing all over the place lately, which is "Magma City," with the volcano represented by red and blue ribbons.



This sign says that this is a "Satsu Magu" (Satsuma Magma) train. It goes on to state that the city had a contest to create a mascot and character names, which were created by school children.

"Aigato na." (Kagoshima dialect for "Thanks.")