On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 01:13:19 +0900, Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson
<ken_nicolson@hotmail.com> brought down from the Mount tablets
inscribed:

>Went up this weekend to Kanazawa, and saw there almost as many
>furriners as in Kyoto, both those of racial distinction and
>Chinese/Korean. Wouldn't have thought it would be that popular being a
>bit out of the way, and most of the gaigins did look more like
>tourists than students/JETs/other resident wasters. The Starbucks'
>seemed gaigin-free, which was also surprising!

That really is surprising. As I mentioned here before, I used to
practically never spot foreigners in the vicinity of Naka Meguro
station until a Starbucks went in nearby. Starbucks = Gaigin Magnet.






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