Day 9 (Jan 19th) really wasn’t supposed to be about Arashi at all, but instead about the other great love of my life – books. Met up with Ono-chan to see the buildings of some of my favourite publishers, and browse through many, many antiquarian bookstores.
And then, of course, I found out that even when I don’t go looking for Arashi, they’ll still appear in front of me. In the form of back issues of magazines. I actually found magazines and newspapers from/about their debut, but photos weren’t allowed and the mags were too expensive (of course) to buy, so I treated the whole thing like a wonderful museum experience, stared at all the old mags, calendars, chirashis, movie pamphlets, and shop photos in awe (not to mention J-Rock memorabilia! But that’s another story to be told in another blog/time), and moved on. These are some of the not-so-valuable items, displayed outside the store –
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