There is a place in Namba (south central Osaka) I really wanted to go to called Tiger, which is a Danish store that sells all sorts of knick knacks. There are lots of branches in Europe but this is the first store in Japan (in Asia!). Like IKEA Japanese people love things from the Scandinavian region.
When it opened in Summer there were too many people who wanted to shop there and guess what? You had to queue up to get a ticket to get into the shop, you get your number at 1pm and you can only get in at 6pm - how crazy is that!! And even then you can only visit a part of the shop. They had to close the shop a few months after opening as they had sold everything in stock!!
We weren't sure if we could get in but we decided to give it a go. We thought 6 months from opening people shouldn't be still queueing up...
We took trains in, made really good connections and it took us less than an hour to get to the city!
And of course my boys loved the train ride with Mako :)
The Midosuji (main street) still had beautiful leaves that were changing colour. It was freezing cold tho!!!
Only 10min or so from the station we got there without getting lost. It opened at 11am and we were there 11:15 but there was already a big queue!!
But because we were there early enough we only had to wait about 10min or so - Phew! waiting outside in the cold with two toddlers could have been a big mission, you know...
Once we were in the shop there were too many people and you can only follow the crowd to look around the shop. We managed to find and buy quite a few things tho. We were quite happy until this moment. But what we didn't know was we had to queue up again to pay... The queue started at 1F where the cashier is but you needed to wait up on the 2F while you were told when to come down as too many people were trying to check out. We thought it would take forever so I took my boys out of the queue and waited where there were no crowds while Mako queued up for me with my shopping basket. In the end it took over one hour to get to the cashier :( It was so painful... fortunately Oliver went to sleep in the buggy and Luca was mostly calm.
This is what the crowd outside the shop looked like when we left.
Our buggy was very full with what we bought but we were very happy we went there and got some goodies :)
On the way home I promised Oliver he can have a special train ride - Repi:t that turned out to be the best ride home - happy smiling boys and comfortable seats for us :) We even had a coffee and a croissant each and got home in no time.
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