the bento section

You know what would be great? If American department stores had a bento goods section. Every Japanese department store has one, and bento goods can be found cheaply at any 100-yen store. But no, we're reduced to Ichibankan online and eBay.

My favorite store in Japan, LoFT, has aisles of bento goods:



And that's just the Miffy character bento stuff above!







These photos are just a third of each aisle, and there were 2 or 3 aisles.


The funniest thing that I saw during my last visit back home was the banana holder.