There are many shops, and buildings with awesome merchandise in the famous “Electric Town” that’s in Akihabara, Japan. My wife and I stopped for lunch at a small ramen shop. After our bellies were full we were ready to explore.
I made space in my backpack to buy as much as I could carry. I was looking for anything that catches my eye, but I was excited to get anime stuff. As we passed by every block, I noticed a lot of sexy anime figures, sexually implicit ads, massage services, and sex shops that had the “must be over 18 sign to enter”.
Naturally, I was curious, but I had my wife with me and she didn’t seem interested in going in, and I felt like a perv if I went in without her while she’d wait outside. “You can go in, I know you want to”. –She said. I casually told her “No I’m good”, like if it didn’t matter, but inside I was bummed out. As the day went on, I kept seeing those interesting adult stores, in which I could only imagine the wonders it would have.
Hours and many shops later my backpack was almost full of figurines, t-shirts, mangas, and anime movies. It was gonna be nighttime soon and the city’s neon lights were starting to stand out. We then made a stop on a building that had a little of everything, and It was about 7 or 8 floors tall.
They had a poster that shows what’s on each floor, and I was excited to see the over 18 sign on the very last one. I know my wife didn’t notice (Or hoped she didn’t) and told her I was gonna go ahead and keep moving up to the next floor. I was so excited that I wanted to run up the stairs but there were many people, so I kept my cool and even though I wanted to see the rest of the floors, I just kept going up. I was on a mission, and if I wanted to buy something, I knew that was my window of opportunity.
A bit winded but that didn’t matter because I was finally there. The entryway was covered by a red curtain with the must be over 18 sign to enter, this was it. I walked in, and I’m immediately greeted by nude girls on posters, adult toys, magazines, movies, banners, mouse pads with breast or butts sticking out for wrist comfort, and weird vending machines that sell signed polaroids of dressed women in a teasing manner, including her used panties (Not my cup of tea) in a sealed bag to conserve the smell.
Honestly, it was a bit overwhelming and as a foreigner I noticed an awkward look by the shopkeeper. Nevertheless, I was determined to bring something back with me. I started grabbing stuff and checking out the backside of the movies but It felt awkward to have others close to me. I admit that I kinda spied to see what they were into. A half an hour later I kept getting “where are you?” texts from my wife, I lost track of time so I had to hurry up and buy what I could.
As I exited through the curtain, my lovely purple haired wife was coming up the stairs right in front of me, and she went “Ahaa..” As embarrassed and red as I could get, all I could do was smile. Good thing to know is that she was totally cool with it, and she even wanted to check the place out. When she went in we could notice that everyone there was uncomfortable, they kept giving her looks and one person even left, but we paid no mind to that.
I showed my wife an adult goodies bag I wanted to get that was on sale. It was called a “Lucky Bag” and is a traditional sale concept throughout all stores in Japan, that has a special meaning but only if it’s purchased on the 1st of January. Such meaning defines your luck for the rest of the year. If when you open it, you get good stuff that’s worth more than what you paid for then you have good luck, if not, then.. well, you get the gist. If they don’t sell them all on that day, then they’ll just continue selling them throughout the year but it won’t have any special meaning.
So, this “Lucky Bag” was $35 and had all kinds of adult goodies in it. It’s all random so I was curious about what I would get. After a long day of shopping around and exploring the streets, we got back to our small studio apartment rental. I was exhausted, I dropped my 30lb backpack with the 2 large shopping bags. I took my shoes off excitedly to open my lucky bag but my wife said, let’s eat first, take a shower and then open it after. Like a kid, wanting to open a present before christmas, I was impatient but complied.
After a nice hot shower and a delicious dinner (While watching Japanese programming that we didn’t understand) I grabbed my lucky bag and teared it open, and the first thing I pulled out was a 4 inch dildo. Yeah, not what I was expecting, so the next thing I took out was a much bigger dildo. I dropped it on the bed and my wife was laughing. Ok I thought, well there’s gotta be something in there that I like, so I flipped it over and as everything fell out, my face turned from a grin to grinch mode.
My wife was laughing hysterically, I could not believe the amount of dildos and vibrators that poured out. That’s it? That’s all? There were different sizes and colors of mechanical vibrators and dildos. Literally nothing I could use, (Or nothing I’d want to use) so I handed it over to my wife and said enjoy.
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