Sugamo Shopping Haven

This place is also known as The Harajuku Of The Old Ladies!

My wifey absolutely loved this place with the highest ranking.

Hear me?? Top most favourite ranking place visited by her
in Tokyo!

01. This 800 meter long Jizo Dori shopping street

has so many Red Underwear shops

which is their signature products.

02. The whole area is very popular with the older generations

who are fondly called Obasang & Ojisang!

It means Old Aunties & Old Uncles.

 03. I really lost count on the number of red underwear shops!

Muahahaha

  04. The Obasangs and Ojisangs were busy fussing away

at all the stuffs like tonics, supplements, fruits, warm clothings

 walking sticks and rocking chairs!

Suddenly I missed my 4 Grandmothers.

05. Voila! These signature red underwears, 

which comes in a variety of styles 

and is thought to bring abundance luck to the wearer.

 06. My wifey insisted many times that I should buy one

red underwear too!!

 07. I was amused by the activities and shoppers there.

I foresee that I would retire someday and join ranks
in the slow paced lifestyle.

 08. The man played the top many times to attract the

Obasangs. I had no idea what was that shop trading inside.

 09. She found a black sesame ice cream.

That is her all time favourite.

 10. I took a good look at the red underwear and picked nothing!
Do I need a red underwear??

 11. I spotted many lanterns and that must be a temple.

12. This Koganji Temple is halfway down the

shopping street. This neat small temple is home to the highly 

popular Togenuki Jizo deity.

 13. Too much red underwears seen. 

So I washed my eyes & mouth!

 14. This shrine has the popular Jizo Bodhisattva 

and is thought to help heal ailments. No wonder many

obasangs and ojisangs frequent this place

for blessings!

 15. After their prayers, they would proceed outside to bathe

the statue of Kannon Bodhisattva.

16. It was interesting to see the chatty oldies sitting in a circle

staring at the pretty flowers for many hours.

 17. I promptly sat there too and stared at the flowers.

 18. It was getting late and very cold. 

So we went inside a chic cafe to get coffee.

 19. We sat outside the cafe and wrote all our postcards.

Oh boy, it was chilly and my fingers were frozen.

 20. I quickly mailed all the postcards from this post office.

Next postcards will probably arrive from Yogjakarta.

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