Eri and I went out Christmas present shopping again today - we decided to buy each other stuff in the sales instead of before Christmas. This afternoon we were in Stitch in Daikanyama, where I saw these shrink wrapped "軍手" (work gloves). Apparently they featured in the design festival in 2006 but I have never seen them anywhere for sale before. The only dissapointing thing about them is the quality of the English on the packaging, all very good save for some your/you're and there/their/they're mistakes. There were about 25 different varieties, like hiragana ones (Japanese text), Hokusai ones, Kanji ones and the other pair that I was very tempted by; measuring ones. I liked the idea of holding something in my hands and being able to measure its length at the same time! In the end though I went for these ones, which have a subway map on them. Going to prove very useful when drunk and lost, I feel! Good value for 1000円!
If you wear them at least you'll be able to use the "I know the Tokyo subway routes like the back of my hand" joke for like a month, perhaps.
I never thought of that! That.is.GENIUS!