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You can even buy them in bulk! Packs of 10 available for a discounted price! Having seen the other items available, like collections of photos of girlfriends for sale for 1000 yen, and that all the photographs available are perfect and seem to have been taken with the same camera, I'm convinced that the underwear probably didn't belong to the person in the picture. Especially as the gentleman behind the counter was preparing many more of these used panties to go on the shelf. Who likes all this stuff? Well the Japanese fetish for all things school girl is called burusera. So, while you're reeling in shock from this, think about this - where did he get these thousands of used panties of girls? Obviously school girls are party to this panty industry. He probably pays an amount for used clothing to either children or parents. This shop is only a short walk from Shibuya's most famous fashion building - 109, which contains thousands of teenage girls at any given minute. I'm sure the shop has a lot of girls selling their underwear to buy new stuff. A few years ago the used panties and photos used to be sold in vending machines out the front of the shop. This machine has since disappeared, otherwise a photo of this machine would definitely be shown here!
One shop that I had also heard about but couldn't find was one selling bottles of girls spit with photos of the girls on the front. Whether it is true that it existed or whether it is another one of those made up stories about shops in Shibuya is unknown. But I'm sure there are even stranger shops in Shibuya waiting to be discovered! |
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So if you want
to check this place out, it is only a short walk from Shibuya station but
it is up a side street and upstairs. To find this shop, go to the front
of the 109 building and walk up the street on the left. Keep walking until
you see a small archway on the right. Go through the arch and follow the
street for about one block. Turn left at Lawson's convenience store and
walk for a bit longer until you see the sign for Rope. NB: In Australia
the first level of a building is called the ground level and the 2nd level
is called Level 1. In Japan the ground level is called, logically, 1F.
ROPE, and its sign, is on 2F. So you'll need to look up to find it. Here
is a picture of the sign to look out for.