So when I went to Japan over a year ago, I was lucky to be able to stay at Tokyo for a day and since we weren't in a rush or anything to go to Osaka, we decided to go to Akihabara. I was thinking of Akihabara to be this otaku land but it's pretty normal. At the same time, we didn't look at a lot of the stores there.
Anyways, I was able to go to the Hello Project Store there. It was like this huge dream of mine to go to the H!P store for a few years. And I finally got to go. But since I was with my very impatient brother, I didn't have the most nicest time there. As soon as I got there, I kind of figured that something bad might happen. Just from the beginning, I was having a hard time finding the form where you write the numbers of the pictures. Also I didn't realize that there was a form in English which I regret not taking that instead. Because I was with people, I felt the need to pick the pictures I want in 5 minutes. So I tried to pick them out as fast as I can. Then when I chose my pictures and lined up to pay, I was told by the cashier that there was a error and to check to see if the picture wasn't sold out or anything. So I did and yes indeed it was sold out. A lot of things were sold out when I went there. But I was sure that I checked to see if things were sold out but I guess I didn't check enough. So I had to line up again, and it was pretty awful. The guys in front of me had probably over $100 worth of pictures and everything so it took forever for the cashiers to type the numbers and give them a receipt. It took probably over an half an hour just for that, and after I paid, I had to wait for an hour to just get 4 photos. I was pretty dang frustrated about it. Also I only bought 4 photos but the total price was 3,000 yen. I guess it was because I bought some pictures that weren't out till the next day or something but I never picked it up and I honestly didn't care because I just wanted to leave. A interesting thing I realized there was that I was the only girl shopping at the H!P store. It was awkward. So I don't want anyone to think the store is crappy. This is just my personal experience and I never really had good experiences at Idol shops(I wonder why I still want to go to them). The store itself was pretty big and it had so many things so if anyone is going there, buy things to your hearts content and don't be cheap like me. Also make sure to triple check if a good is sold out. You will know if there's a thing on the picture. I will continue with my idol shop experience by talking about the Johnny's store and how crowded it was.
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