First night out in Nagoya

What are two Canadian girls going to get up to when Japan is at there disposal for the night..um convenience store, of course! We didn't have too much money to spend and we're not yet brave enough to dive into the deep end and hit up a club, just the two of us-so what better place to start than at the local 7-11, Lawson, Family Mart, Mini Stop store (all within walking distance from each other)!

The first point about the greatness about the Japanese convenience stores is that they are very convenient (more than 40,000 in Japan)! Open 24/7 and located every other block (they are well beating out Starbucks here)!  They serve hot, cold and lukewarm food and beverages and of course liquor! The 'amazingness' (new words need to be created in order to describe the caliber of majesty associated with these glowing buildings) factor is unimaginable!

Ok maybe I go to far but that night was exactly how we felt about it. Where the night was taking us, the more liquor that was put into our bodies, the more this haven was praised for its brilliance-but then again cursed the next morning for the same reason.

It was like Christmas, Robin and I went crazy buying loads of interesting, weird, food items we had never tried before. The well marketed packaging again paid off for those companies, as every smiling face looking up at us on those packages were bought! We even decided to buy magazines and go home and flick through them.

The liquor section takes up a good portion of the store. It is separated into cold beers (mostly individually sold), coolers, wine, hard liquor, sake and shochu. Now I'm usually solely a beer drinking girl myself and Robin, the same, but this night was special so we decided let's go back to our younger days and drink the "girlie" drinks, we had grown out of. We selected about 5 different cans with various fruits, not quite knowing what type of liquor was in it but practically jumping up and down a tall boy that was 9% some unknown, but strong liquor and only 150 yen ($2.00 USD)!

We spent about almost an hour wandering around excited and even cracked a can open walking back to our apartment, just because we had to cheers to the best convenience store we had both ever seen!

The selection of junk food is almost endless!

The liquor section with everything you
could ever desire!