I'm in Tokyo !!!

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Costas

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Thank you all for the very useful information about Japan and Tokyo.
I am in Tokyo for a week of business but I already found some time to visit a knife shop, just opposite the famous Kabuki theater (if you ever come to Tokyo, don't forget to pay a visit).

The prices are high, but the people are absolutely great. RESPECT is the word here, they respect you and you have absolutely no choice but to respect them as well.

A great place.
 
And if you make it out to Seki or downtown Gifu City for the cutlery festival this weekend, look for a six foot, 300 lb. white man with beard and glasses dressed like a cowboy walking with a skinny Japanese guy.

I'm the skinny one.

Happy knifehunting.

Eric Takabayashi
Fukuyama, Japan
 
Now for the important question..... What blade do you have with you and how did you get it on the plane. Assuming you actually flew on a plane.
 
I have a plain edge lightweight Cricket (which I had on the plane, no problem at all), I have a Spyderco Tie-Clip knife for the occasions I have to wear a tie, and I put a mini-AFCK in my suitcase just to have along, for no particular reason. The Cricket is always clipped to my left front pocket.
 
Costas, pick up some of the "Airsoft" guns, they are a blast. Don't get the freon powered ones unless you can get freon in canisters in Greece. I have a Glock Airsoft, they are accurate and hard hitting. Have fun!
 
Pick up the "hyper" powered electric motor guns, one of the submachine gun types or full size assault rifles. They're rechargeable. The M-16 variants are always good. HK replicas are good, too. Also pick up steel BBs. They can penetrate cans and embed themselves in plywood.

Japanese airguns aren't as powerful or accurate as those in America, but they look real and feel good.

Eric Takabayashi
Fukuyama, Japan
 
Thank you Eric.

How about "proper" airguns (i.e. rifled barrels, lead pellets)?
Is there a store in Tokyo that sells them?

Thank you again for the information.
I will be here until the 26th.
 
There's another thread farther on down, on the correct pronunciation of "tanto".

Maybe Costas should head to ye olde knife store/show in Tokyo and count how many times they wince when he says "tanto" (rhyming with "chant")
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