Hello Kitty socks can be worn with Hello Kitty Crocs.
Hello Kitty on sale at the flea market
Amusingly, even a sumo wrestler on the Tokyo subway displayed no embarrassment at having a Hello Kitty charm hanging off his mobile phone.
And Hello Kitty reached out to her American friends on Sesame Street - why have only one cute character when you can have two-in-one?
In fact, accessories seemed to have their own accessories everywhere we went. In Nara, Hello Kitty made a very cute deer...
...much cuter than the official Nara mascot, celebrating its 1300 year anniversary:
Ugh, not so cute. But not nearly as paranoid as this little guy, seen at the Soba Festival in Matsumoto.
This kappa clearly needed a hug.
I hung out with Anpanman in Kawaguchiko.
Even the police have a smiling mascot outside their Tokyo offices:
And if you're not already smiling, there are reminders everywhere that you should be.
Seen in the Akihabara electronics district
Museum of Weights and Measures in Matsumoto
Pets are not immune to the cute character treatment, either (although I suspect that a real cat would be even more surly than these stuffed ones if it was forced to wear a rabbit hat)
And even drinks in vending machines sport big smiles
We found lots of cute drinks in vending machines, but that's a subject for an entire blog post...
Until then, to answer the burning question on your lips: 'yes, it's all cute, but did you bring any of it home with you?'
Of course! Kawaii, ne?
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