Crowded IslesI can never believe that Costco could ever find a suitable place in Japan. Somehow they have managed to fit their huge American sized warehouse on a plot of land by the sea. And it is amazing. To get there from Yokosuka, we took the toll ($9.50 one way) to Namiki exit and Costco was there. They had 2 or 3 stories of parking on the roof. As you exit the parking structure you take a shopping cart and go down the escaladors which had a magnetic grip on the shopping cart. The free samplers were strange. They had raw fish, pickled vegetables, small appetizers. The Japanese line up in an orderly fashion to await their turn at the sampler or "demo" tables. A lot of the items in Costco came straight from America so everything I saw were recogonizable. I can hear the cash registers cha-chinging in my head as each Japanese person made their purchase in support of U.S. economy. Obviously, the most empty part of the store was the book section. All the books were imported from the states. Me and Soco went over there to flip through some of them since everything was in English. We bought Sushi, Bulgogi, anchovies with walnuts, pastries, eggs and fish. At the end of our shopping spree, we ate at it's restaurant which served the same stuff they sell at the states. Soco got a chicken roll and I got a slice of pizza and clam chowder. As we left, we saw the tire center. It was really clean, no tire or oil marks on their floors... it was sparkling and all the tires and tools were neatly stacked and put away. The Japanese are really clean! Really great place in Japan.
Seafood Pizza
Raw fish sampler
Checking Out
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