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  • Today I am in Kita-Ikebukuro at a convenience store called 3F

  • And they have kindly allowed me to film a tour for you guys

  • It is a huge convenience store and - sumimasen (laughs)

  • ~MIMEI LAND~

  • Okay, we're going into the conbini from the backside

  • And you can see there's lots of yummy looking drinks

  • And there's even vegetables, except there's not many there right now

  • You can buy pretty much anything in one of these

  • There's lots of coffee

  • Green tea... You can even buy meat

  • I mean, I wouldn't, but maybe you would

  • Some pre-packaged foods, like salads

  • Lots of bread

  • Yakisoba Ro-ru (Yakisoba Roll)

  • It is bread with yakisoba inside it

  • Why? I don't know

  • And this one's bacon and corn

  • Here, you can see the refrigerated area where there's desserts, yoghurt and jelly, and stuff like that

  • Here's all the yoghurt, some jelly with fruit in it

  • This conbini is so big, there's so much stuff

  • Here's a whole lot of treats for children

  • I mean, you don't have to be a child to eat them obviously

  • Umeboshi - dried plums

  • There's little... bits of salami I think

  • Lots and lots of chocolate

  • More chocolate

  • Noodles and noodles and noodles

  • These are called Kappumen - cup noodles

  • And, oh my gosh - you can buy a whole packet of them here, you don't even need to go to the supermarket

  • And its only 300 yen, which is like 3 dollars

  • Maybe these are one of the cheaper brands. I don't eat them because they've got meat in them but...

  • So this is the curry, let's take a look at the curry

  • Lots of curry - Japanese curry is slightly different from Indian curry

  • Oh, and these look like stir-fries

  • And this is microwave rice

  • So if you don't have a rice cooker, or if you're just super lazy

  • it's microwaveable rice

  • And you can even buy Listerine here, and toothbrushes and toothpaste, and band-aids

  • Condoms as well

  • So there's contact lens cleaning stuff, there's bath salts

  • Shampoo, and shampoo refills - this conbini is full of awesome stuff

  • If you need to clean something, there you go

  • Yay, we're going into the back of the convenience store! I've never seen this before

  • This is where they stock all the drinks - actually you can kind of see through

  • That's the convenience store, and this is behind where they stock the drinks

  • And you can see the kind of drinks that are in a convenience store

  • There's a lot of beer, there's some sweat

  • These are vitamin drinks, sports drinks

  • Water - lots of flavoured water at the moment in Japan

  • and it's actually quite yummy

  • I mean, just like everything... they have all the things

  • And it's freezing, the whole area is being frozen by that thing

  • I mean it's being refrigerated - it's like a giant refrigerator, what is this?

  • So this is what it looks like from the front

  • And if you wanna buy a beer, you come and open it up

  • and buy a beer - but only if you're over twenty

  • These three are all alcohol, and then these other ones are non-alcoholic drinks

  • And then we've got another huge aisle

  • of chips and wine

  • Osake, or alcohol

  • More alcohol

  • More alcohol

  • More alcohol

  • More alcohol, this time wine

  • Something for everybody here

  • Lots more stuff

  • And then we have the kind of budget brand, the no frills brand of stuff

  • And everything here is like 108 yen

  • We've got lightning cables, iPhone chargers, portable chargers

  • in various beautiful colours... that one's nice

  • Car chargers, batteries

  • And here's where you can buy prepaid cards for stuff like iTunes, Google Play, Playstation, Nintendo and other things

  • Necessities, I guess

  • We've got... these are wipes for when you're sweaty

  • and a huge lot of hair wax

  • Panty hose - you might be surprised by how many times you need this if you're working in a suit-job and your panty hose gets ripped

  • Accessories, hair accessories

  • Deodorant and stuff for your period

  • and yes, you can buy makeup in the convenience store

  • So if you need a new foundation, or if you forgot yours, or if you're on a trip or something, you can buy makeup

  • And there's quite a good range

  • Even face masks

  • And these are the masks to wear if you have hay-fever, or for whatever reason really

  • So they've got a really nice selection of ice cream here

  • Ice cream

  • And I love these ones because they're so... how do they make it stay like that?

  • It's fascinating

  • Snacks, gum, more gum, mints, more gum...

  • And of course we've got sweets - these are mostly gummy sweets

  • Throat lozenges

  • More gummy sweets, and also dried fruits

  • I like to buy dried fruits, especially dried mango

  • Cookies, chocolate

  • More chocolate - snack sized chocolate

  • It's quite a small package, but it's kinda cool, I like it

  • Nice pick-me-up

  • Vitamins, and then we have kind of energy bars like ipponmanzoku

  • And Calorie Mate

  • There's the registers, and they're selling Oden

  • This is what the oden goes into

  • This is what oden looks like - it's generally like a warm treat, or warm meal in winter

  • And this is the regi~ And look, you can even buy this stuff

  • Magazines - they have a huge selection of magazines in this convenience store

  • because there's basically like a small bookstore attached to a big convenience store

  • So there's comic books... and look - there's Creator Channel, me and Duncan were in the first one

  • This one - there we are!

  • More magazines, basically you can get whatever you want here

  • They've got a big comics section, or manga section

  • And then a little book section as well

  • A lot of the convenience store have cigarettes here and you can order them by number

  • But these are kind of gift sets

  • that you might send to someone

  • These are the hot drinks

  • Okay, so of course you can buy a newspaper too

  • And they have coffee machines, these are really popular these days

  • You go and buy the coffee, they give you a cup and you can do it yourself

  • There is a photo-copier as well

  • which has lots of functions

  • And an ATM

  • So you can actually get money out

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  • Consider subscribing to my channel, I make quite a few videos about Japan

  • You might be interested in them

  • And check out 3F if you're in Japan, it's a really amazing convenience store, I feel like I'm in a supermarket actually

  • which has all the books I could ever need

  • Okay

Today I am in Kita-Ikebukuro at a convenience store called 3F

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