Quote Originally Posted by Ode to a Grasshopper View Post
^^ True. Plus it IS the tail-end of Chinese Golden Week, so the more well-known stores will have been picked over more than usual.
Still, it's worth making a stopover on the way between Tokyo-Kansai/vice versa, and it is still definitely the most affordable of the branches I've been to.

Apparently there's a shrine that houses the famous 'Kusanagi' katana here too, if you're interested in katana/samurai swords. I'd like to go and see it, but I have other plans for now.
Im glad to see your getting around other places than being stuck in Osaka. Also one of the advantages of being a tourist is the JR Railpass. I have hammered that many times and covered a great deal of Japan just riding on the JR system.

Also going back on the Mandarake plastic crack dens, Sapporo is a good place to visit if you are around and that has some good stuff too. Kokura is decent and Fukuoka used to be great but a lot of foreign buyers have cleaned that place out but saying that, I have bought an item for HD really cheap.