fish stores and vending machines

There's this nuts fish store near my house that I often go to and buy little red shrimps at for my little square aquarium, which is in a corner of my little shoebox sized apartment. This fish store is nuts. They sell all kinds of fish. It's like sea life park in there. They had napoleons today for 300 bucks. They sell arrowannas for 3 grand. They have piranhas for 20 bucks each. Those would be kinda cool to have. They have huge catfishes, small catfishes, weird looking catfishes and all kinds of other fish that I have never seen in my life. They even have fresh water stingrays, which I didn't even know existed.

On my way there, I found a condom vending machine tucked away on an obscure corner. Who would buy condoms from a vending machine anyway? I wonder how long those have been in there. Japan will sell you anything from a vending machine, seriously.

Here in Japan they're big on recycling stuff; even though they package things with three different plastic bags. I kid you not. You buy a bag of donuts or chocolate from the store, and they will be in the regular wrapper. You open the bag, and then each individual chocolate or donut will be in another bag. In that bag will be a plastic tray to hold the chocolate or donut. With all this plastic being used, to keep themselves from guilt, Japan makes you separate all your rubbish into different categories. For example: burnable, non-burnable, plastic, plastic bottles, metal, and glass. Each of these bags of rubbish go out on different days of the week. The best is the cans week cause then you can see who drinks the most beer on your block. You see everyone gotta throw their rubbish in one big collective pile at the corner of your block for the rubbish man. No trash cans outside your house, you take it to the corner, and put it under some kind of netting or in a cage to keep the crows out of it.

strange drink in Japan #239299282392389

I bought this today at the kombini (convenience store). It's labeled guts, and I didn't even know that there was a market for gut flavored. . .anything. I guess there is a slight crying out by the peoples for something like that. To be honest I thought it tasted more like pineapple and honey. Not really my thing seeing that I ate pineapples everyday every hour for two summers at Maui Pine, but whatever.