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If you want to pay $50 for a punnet of strawberries, $200 for a rock melon or $10 for a banana- well Japan is the place. There are premium fruit and vegetable stalls selling incredibly expensive fruit and veg, but they are the most perfect items you could ever imagine, the melons are perfectly round […] Read the rest of Expensive food 
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K Cars are tiny cars and delivery vans popular in Japan, most of them are smaller than our Ford KA and many of them are pretty cute. Although traffic is pretty light here compared to other places parking is difficult and many of the streets and lanes are pretty narrow so these cars make sense. […] Read the rest of K Cars
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It dosn’t matter what you are shopping for there is so much choice and you could spend all day comparing and getting confused just at the one store. These photos were taken at Toko Hands who sell household items and a lot of gifts, craft items and stationery. The departments are a little random and […] Read the rest of So much choice
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The Nissan Headquarters in on the walkway between our hotel and the main city center so we drop in for a look at their showroom. After the welcoming bows we explore some of their new products and a pretty impressive concept vehicle. We will see more next week when we visit the Tokyo Motor Show. Read the rest of Nissan HQ
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Truly magical and it just in a shopping mall.. open door lid opens, close door lid closes and flushes no need to touch anything unless you want the wash and blow dry. And as for the rest of it, certainly 5 star with planter boxes and tiles you could eat your dinner off- if you […] Read the rest of Shopping centre 5 star toilets
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A new shopping area opened in Yokohama Japan today and we were lucky enough to see the launch, and even got a free gift. Both these videos are well worth the watch. The mascots are trains. YouTube Direct YouTube Direct BTW the Gran is not a spelling mistake (our end anyway) they seem to use […] Read the rest of Gran Open! Gran Open!
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The airport was about a half hour taxi ride from hotel, and from the outside it was a pretty impressive airport, but like a lot of things we have seen in China things usually are not as beautiful up close, and Shanghai airport was no exception, very dated and only a Burger King and a […] Read the rest of Pew! Kim Jong Un didn’t nuke us
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We finish our trip to Shanghai dodging the mopeds and the copy watch salesman down along Nanjing road checking out the video walls and neon light shows. Before heading to the airport for the 1:00 am flight to Tokyo. Read the rest of Last night in Shanghai
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Not quite Chinese cuisine but this place is fun. Its a German restaurant that is located under the bund walkway. They have a real (and we think unused) Merc hanging off the wall. The food was good, so was the beer. Read the rest of German for lunch
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Thursday the last day in Shanghai so perfect excuse for a river cruise on the mighty Huangpu YouTube Direct Read the rest of River cruise
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Its our last day here today before heading over to Japan, Read the rest of A bit more of Shanghi
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The historical shopping district around our hotel has a large pond filled with hundreds of carp and goldfish one of the frew living things you see other than cats. There are nearly no birds no insects to be found YouTube Direct Read the rest of huge goldfish
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