This is a repost of something I wrote after our trip to Tokyo in Have you ever desperately needed a bathroom scale at 3am? Have you ever been on the way to a costume party, but needed a fake mustache and tricycle to complete the outfit? Donki is an experience; to enter into a Don Quijote is to visit another world, full of narrow pathways that illogically lead from one rabbit hole to another.
Stock is piled from checkerboard floor up to matte black ceiling, with un-packaged sample items dangling overhead between fake vines and disco balls. Bright, hand-drawn signs with big blocky numbers and chirpy little comments in Japanese flash product names and prices on the end of shelves.
The store layout itself shows little logic, with cosmetics leading to mobile phone accessories leading to cookware, ice cream, etc.. Miracle indeed! A Donki store is typically several storeys of disorienting shopping fun. While the one in Roppongi has a roller coaster on top , my favourite is the tower of power in Shinjuku. So, hello miracle shopping! And shitloads of booze!! Game time: How many different types of product can you spot in the picture below?
You see? Rumour has it, as well, that the parking lots purposely have no CCTV monitoring, and employees turn a blind eye to organised crime dealings in these dark areas in exchange for being subject to paying protection money and other fees. Yasuda already directly and indirectly possessed He then went back to Origin and requested politely demanded?
The move was highly criticised and the Financial Services Agency appealed to the Diet to make such stock acquisitions illegal. Quite a business strategy, though! Three employees were killed and eight people injured when a Don Quijote in Saitama caught fire in , an incident that was believed to be an arson. What a surprise. Primary Mobile Navigation. Don Quijote: The best store in the world Semi. If you were running from the law and needed a place to dodge the cops, in fact, Don Quijote would be the perfect place to get them off your trail.
