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Tokyu Hands holds annual sales event on Wed. 25 Aug. and that lasts for a week. Same as last year, I’m planning to go to the sales, probably the Shibuya or Shinjuku one, at the early days of the event and during the morning. Last year I got a small bag, coffee maker and some kitchen tools, towels, and some cosmetics I guess.

I could shop from Tokyu Hands online store, but I usually like to check out the products as themselves to see how the weight, texture, color, smell, and etc. are. The good (or bad) thing about shopping physically is I can find things I wouldn’t buy from online shops. Sometimes I can try the sample and it can be a lot better than I imagined. Sometimes people gather at a certain product which I would never mind but while I see the demonstration I finally find out why the product is so popular. I think I like shopping, especially shopping at offline shops, even if it’s only window-shopping.

Tokyu Hands online store does not ship internationally, just as most of any other Japanese online shops. If you want me to shop something from Tokyu Hands and ship to you, take a look at Tokyu Hands online store and give me the link of the item you want. I will upload the product onto my FlutterScape account and you can smoothly purchase the item from there.

If your order is complicated, such as this and that item from Tokyu Hands and this and that from somewhere else, for example, you can also hire me as your private buyer but actually there are several options you can purchase from Japanese online stores today.

I may be able to check out some of the great devices or useful kitchen tools that I shared in this blog some time ago.

Anyhow contact me if you want me to help you purchase any products from Tokyu Hands.

Millions of thanks to you for those who kindly participated for the giveaway contest.

The contest was successfully over with as many as 70 entries in total plus some retweets or blog posts.
I made it a bit of a bother because you had to go all the way to write up an email to me, in which you had to take some time answering my questions that made you think or read my blog a lot. But I have to say the entry emails were awesome! Really awesome!! I really had hard time selecting only 2 people from so many great opinions, suggestions, ideas, and…you know what, direct responses from readers are so wonderful! I wonder how much I learned from what you suggested in the entry emails.

*cough cough*
To protect winner’s privacy, I will only announce the first name or the nickname of the winners here and within a day or two I will only reply to the winners as “RE: Free Kawaii Giveaway” so we can discuss the shipping address and etc. I wish I could say thank you by replying to every single entry, but sorry that’s just too much of work for now. :p

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2 winners for the Best Contribution Prize

Mathew and Keila
(Please watch your email box, I’ll write to you very soon!)

2 winners for the Thank-You Prize

Megan and Sharon
(Please watch your email box, I’ll write to you very soon!)

Congratulations!!!!
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It was really hard for me to select 2 winners for the Best Contribution Prize and I feel sorry for the candidates whose entries were nearly as great as those 2 winners. And congrats on the above 2 winners for Thank-You Prize, who were selected by random drawing.
Also there were people who kindly entered the contest for nothing (not aiming for the prize). It was a great opportunity for me to get to know my readers better, which is nothing like what I can see from blog comments.

Thank you again for this opportunity. With your great ideas and suggestions I will be able to make this blog something more interesting and easy to read. It’s not easy to hold a giveaway contest like this from time to time besides all the other kind of work I am doing now, but hopefully I can offer more fun contests and events sometime in the future.

It was very interesting to know from majority of opinions that my readers want to know my personal life in Japan. I understand you want to see more pictures, and I realized why I didn’t do that very well. That’s because I feel kind of embarrassment at taking pictures everywhere. Like last time I tried to take some pictures at Depachika (delicatessen sections at department stores), which I will share very soon, but I was totally embarrassed to act like that. You know I am not a foreigner or someone who feels excited about finding Depachika. Also most of Japanese shops hate to have their products snapped for some reason.

But if I am apparently a foreign tourist who would not understand Japanese properly, they may let it go. I was wondering if I could look like a Chinese or Korean tourist instead of a Japanese who’s totally familiar with those places. I wish I could speak some Chinese or Korean for the moment they spoke to me. I was thinking like that. I don’t know why I feel so much embarrassed and isn’t it even funny to imagine that I think of pretending as Chinese or Korean only to take some photos from Depachika? ^ ^; I think this is the reason I have not been proactive against sharing more pictures and personal life with my readers. I think I could take as many pictures as I like once I go out of Tokyo area. It’s very funny.

Anyhow, I’ll gradually review to improve my blog, referring to the suggestions you gave me!
I hope this giveaway contest was something fun to you, too even if you didn’t win this time. I’ll try to have some other opportunities in the future as much as I can.
Thank you for reading Tokyo Kawaii, etc.
Kirin

I’m so happy to receive entry emails everyday, which is as if I were receiving fan letters! lol
I made this video in case you have not noticed the giveaway contest, and also to let you know that you will not receive a replying email from me to your entry unless you win the contest. (Thus I cannot reply to the person who was worried if she entered the contest properly.)

Also, it’s a good chance for you to speak to me what you have in your mind as a reader of this blog. In that sense, you do not always have to write to me as an “entry” to the contest, if you are not interested in gaining the prize. Moreover, I always open my email box for your emails and you can write to me whenever you feel like.

You still have 10 days to go until the contest closes. Please take your time, if you have not entered yet, and I’ll be looking forward to your entries!
Feel free to ask me a question at the comment section of this post, if you have any. (This is my first giveaway contest, I may not do it well…)

Thank you very much for those who already entered.
Please avoid sending me multiple entries except you have to amend some parts of your previous email.
Thank you.
Kirin

ps. Oh I made a mistake in my speech. It’s “irrelevant” not “unrelevant” but it was too late I already issued the video…^ ^; (BTW, you can always point out my mistakes in English I will not get offended. I’m just a person who doesn’t wait until I become perfect, because I know that point will never come to me! lol)

Thanks to the great opinions and suggestions from my readers, I can finally announce our first-ever free kawaii giveaway contest on this post.
Please read the following guidelines carefully before you enter the contest.

In order to improve Tokyo Kawaii, etc. to the next level, I am now preparing for the first-ever free giveaway contest. It is taking me some time to prepare for the contest. Meanwhile you may want to subscribe to Tokyo Kawaii, etc. so you should not miss the post when it’s announced.

Also, it may help me a lot if you let me know your wish list by leaving your comment to this post or by emiling me a direct message. Of course it’s hardly possible that I get everything on the list, but to tell you the truth, I tend to think way too much to select something for someone. ^ ^; This maybe the main reason I had second thought about offering a giveaway contest so far.

The other day when I went out to select a little birthday gift for my friend, I guess I spent almost entire day searching and wandering around Tokyo. I think just way too much, “What if she already had it?” “Can I imagine herself wearing something like this? Is that really suitable to her taste?” “Is it durable enough and also looks better than the price?”…etc. It’s endless….(-_-)

When it comes to freebie to be given away, I don’t even know if the winner is male or female, young or mid-aged or old…if he or she likes something in such and such taste, and on and on…then I just cannot choose anything. (X_X)
Anyway, so please look forward to it and don’t forget to check this blog from time to time or subscribe to it so you should not miss it.

Thank you for your patience.
Kirin