Akihabara - Day 2

We had convenience-store breakfast this morning.  Christopher had a salmon onigiri and a roe sushi roll; I had a chicken/cheese/mayonnaise onigiri and inari-zushi.  My chicken onigiri was AMAZING.  Christopher was happy with his roe roll, but not wild about the salmon.  We chatted with family before setting off on foot for Akihabara and board-game shopping.

We stopped first at Yodobashi Akiba, a huge electronics/other store in Akihabara.  I bought stickers and a penguin 2013 planner for Christopher; he bought the other two volumes of the Final Fantasy 20th Edition books that I was missing from my collection.  Then we headed to a restaurant in the building for lunch.  I had a really nommy katsu-donburi bowl with cold soba noodles.  Christopher had a little bit of everything that the restaurant had to offer.

Then we went to the board game/toys floor.  We got the three Dominion games that they had, Shinkansen playing cards, and a Fistful of Penguins.  Not too bad, right?  This is like, we bought board games in Japan, but we controlled ourselves.  This trend was not to continue.

Christopher picked up a few electronic bits and a lens cap for his camera while I mailed postcards. Then I had an amazing chocolate croissant while he learned about our options for temporary Japanese cell phones.  But we didn't buy a cell phone or anything.

We marched off for other board game stores, directions courtesy of the fabulous +Adrienne Lipoma .  We visited Yellow Submarine and Role and Roll, both on Chuo-dori.

We now own every Dominion item available in Japanese, save promos and Seaside, which seems to be sold out everywhere.  We also own Help Me - the real Korean Engrish version, not the new and totally-not-as-cute version.  We also own a handful of Japanese games that we have no idea how to play.  It will be a project for me.  Pictures (and maybe BGG entries? only one of these games appears to be on the Geek) will follow.

Christopher is fussing with his laptop, and I'm sure we'll head out for dinner soon.