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| - This small, yet well-stocked market is great! As soon as you walk in, the owners readily greet you in Japanese, English, or both. That is a really nice habit other places need to get in the habit of doing, and it really makes me feel welcome.
Despite it being on the small side, don't let it's size fool you. This place has just about everything one might need out of a Japanese market... And then some!
This place has food, candy, gifts and.... Awesome movies!!! I still plan on renting "Oldboy" from here someday. I plan on conning my oppa Tetsuro P. into watching it with me the next chance we get. I also plan on renting all the Miyazaki films I have yet to see from here.The fact that here at Nakata you can even rent Japanese movies, alone, makes this place really cool.
Probably, the most special thing about Nakata is....... Drumroooollllllll....... They sell ViVi magazines here!!! AHHH!!!! I die. I die!
If you guys don't know, let me fill you in. I am a Fashion major, and this is my second go at school. The first "go," I attended Indiana University in Bloomington, and I was an Apparel Merchandising major. My best friend at the time (and still is, actually) was named Jackie Brown. Being half Korean, half white, she was very into Asian culture. She introduced me to my first Japanese fashion magazine, and life was never the same.
We both would sit for hours, dreaming about how we could try to re-create the outfits we saw on those glossy pages, because at that time, fashion trends didn't just originate in France. Japan and Korea were also ahead of the curve, and many cool things I saw in ViVi and other magazines had simply not reached the States yet.
To this day, I still love to pick up a Japanese fashion magazine and get lost in the pages. Japan's fashion mags put ours to shame, and they are so inspiring to me, as someone who wants to make a career out of it.
Any place that sells Vivi, or any other Japanese fashion magazine, automatically gets five stars in my book.
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