I had some time after eating, so I took a lap around Shizuoka Station.
Nihonichi
So there’s one here too… I was happy to see it, so I snapped a photo.
A flavored tea shop
They sold all kinds of teas… it looked like a great spot for souvenirs.
Butter no Itoko
So they’ve made it to Shizuoka too. They’re selling more varieties now, which was a nice surprise.
Yamasan Farm
It seems to be a strawberry specialist, and apparently a well-known one.
MUJI 500
It’s a daily-goods store focused on items under 500 yen. Looks like MUJI is going for something close to a 100-yen-shop concept. You only find special stores like this in fairly big cities.
Roughly the kind of stuff they carry
Lots of fashion items, it seemed…
Toeless toe socks, which I photographed because they were so odd
I took a photo because I wondered where on earth you’d use these… I looked it up, and apparently they’re handy when you’ve had a pedicure but still need to wear socks… So even these count as fashion items… The world of fashion runs deep.
Set meals
Lunch set meals at an izakaya; they looked pretty good, so I took a picture.
Café Yama to Umi to Taiyo
A cafe with a nice vibe, produced by MOS Burger… You can tell they spent a lot on the interior, but with seating this roomy I couldn’t help worrying whether the turnover would be okay.
A taishu sakaba (casual old-school drinking hall)
It was lunchtime, yet so many people were drinking. Turns out I didn’t really know Shizuoka.
Kimikura Japanese tea cafe
Shizuoka is famous for tea, so I guess that’s why places like this exist. This one is a tea specialist, and it was packed.
There’s lots of fun stuff in the basement of Shizuoka Station. It’s the kind of place where you could ride the shinkansen in just to look around the station and still have a good time… Grab some Shizuoka oden to go here, and I think you’d have a perfect day trip.
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