Tokyo Dome City

Tokyo Dome City* 1-3-61 Koraku, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8562 Tokyo Dome City shelters more than 10 restaurants and souvenir shops inside and outside of the main building. 1 min. walk from any of the following: JR Chuo line Suidobashi station/Tokyo Subway/Marunouchi line or Nanboku line Korakuen Station/Tokyo Subway Mita line Suidobashi station Korakuen Amusement Park La Qua Amusement Park w/ Shops Shops & Restaurants in English

Daiso 100 Yen Plaza* Udagawacho 27-4, Shibuya-ku 03-5459-3601 Open daily 11am-11pm. Walk up Dogenzaka from Shibuya station, turn right at 109 and walk toward Tokyu Honten. 100 Yen Plaza is on your right. Shibuya Savvy tourists and long-time residents are heading to 100 Yen Plaza in Shibuya for all their souvenirs. On the 3rd floor of this ultra-cheap department store you can find wabi-sabi ceramics, ramen bowls, lacquerware miso-soup bowls, fancy chopsticks, traditional toys, good-luck cat figures, paper lanterns, even fake cherry blossoms. All the exotic things you need to buy for those obscure relatives or unexpected friends you run into on a trip home. Any day of the week, the store is full of Russian and Taiwanese tourists stocking up on the good stuff because it's so cheap. The 100 Yen Plaza is a bargain department store. There are five floors of goods, arranged like a classy Ginza department store: plastics on the 4th floor, gardening goods (flowerpots, lattice frames, even bags of soil!) on the 3rd, kitchenware on the 2nd, etc. And just like Isetan, the food floor is in the basement. The "plastic" floor has stationery and kitchenware in a rainbow of pastel shades and clear plastic. The huge stationery section has ring binders, folders, and multi-sleeve photo holders in all sizes from postcard to A4 - stuff that retails for 5 times the price in regular stores. They also have plastic kitchen containers and bento boxes in a range of acid colors. Other floors are similarly well stocked. The first floor carries party goods and games, accessories and cosmetics. Here's your chance to pick up party masks of disgraced presidents and horror film characters. Local teenage girls load up their shopping baskets with essential makeup products like fake tear drops, tattoo transfers and stick-on eyelashes in Yves Klein blue. Why pay many times the price for the same stuff in trendy stores - when you can find the real generic no-brand version at 100 Yen Plaza?

Animate* 3-2-1 Ikebukuro, Toshima-Ku Animate is located in Ikebukuro near the Sunshine 60 building Anime events @ Animate (Babelfish translation)  Web Store: http://www.animate-shopping.co.jp/