Best things about Japan so far ~Zoe and Michelle~

7 Eleven (& Lawson and FamilyMart). You can buy tickets, get breakfast, lunch and dinner, beer, etc.

On day 2 in Japan we were feeling a little tired and wanted dinner in. We had heard that you could get all your meals from the convenience stores. In Hiroshima, we had all three within very short walking distance so we went to all three and grabbed a variety of options. Thomas's favourite was famichicki from FamilyMart. Zoe's was the ice cream and Travis has become a noodle bowl connoisseur.

We have used the atm at 7eleven and got money out at 2% which has been our best rate world wide. We even paid for our tickets to universal studios at the cashier. 

Gacha - gacha machines are vending machines containing blind boxes, usually for toys. There are stores that house hundreds of machines.

Our first gacha was a stuffie of mom's favourite:

The most unusual was a machine in the middle of a bike path on a tiny island. They are everywhere!

Or is it the x rated ones

The toilets are amazing with warm seats and even in remote parks, they are remarkably clean. 

As well, there are vending machines with hot and cold bottled drinks on the side of random streets. We can't have nice things like this at home.

Hotels have everything like razors, toothbrushes, shampoo and conditioner and even pajamas

Sanrio Stores are everywhere

Malls are also everywhere - with some of our favourite stores being Don Quixote, Hands and Bic Cameras for toys, kit-kats, face and hair care. 

~Zoe & Michelle