What is SEIYU?

We made our way to Machida. "Little Tokyo" is a very large, active shopping town. It is known for it's pedestrian zones, where the cars are not allowed and the shoppers go from high rise store to high rise store in search of new goodies.

Oh, there IT is!

Now, where shall we shop?

Well, wouldn't you know it?

Guess what we found?

SEIYU!

What is SEIYU?

Well, let's see if you can figure that one out.

Here are a few pictures.
(** I apologize, the program is not letting me control the placement of the pictures. Maybe it's a glitch? Forgive me.)

8 floors of goodness.

Just to let you know, the exchange rate for 

the Yen is currently about 100. 

So, 100 Yen = $1.

The yellow tags in the pictures show how many Yen the item is. 

Divide by 100 and you get the cost in Dollars. 

Ex: 227yen = $2.27

These are like Little Debbie Strawberry Shortcakes.

Dried, and shredded squid. 

Green Tea Oreos anyone? 

Shampoo comes in 'bladder bags' as you nurses call them.
Recycling is huge here.
You can buy the actual bottle,
but it is very expensive compared to the bag.
 ( It's almost 4x more!)

This is how they start teaching their kids English.
They put the English version of words on the cracker.
So smart. We really should do this in America!

Did you figure out what store we found?

We found everything from food and fun items to bikes and backpacks. 

Face masks a plenty and TVs of all sizes. 

Did those famous yellow tags clue you in?

Here's one last photo to let you in our new found treasure.

Yes, Walmart! Gotta love finding stores that give you just enough of "home" to make you feel good.

Thankful for the small things & the Big Stores,

~ Aggie Amy