Gotta Catch Them ALL
I was wandering through Akihabara doing important book research SHUT UP, when I discovered the key to collecting all those damnably elusive kittehs in Neko Atsume: put out lots & lots & LOTS of hundred yen coins and you can attract these. For those of us whose primary life goal is luring animated cats to visit our phones DON’T JUDGE, now there’s a way to capture our favorites in real life!







If you’d like to snag some of these beauties for yourself, the clips and danglers and drinking glasses and backpack stuffies can be bought inside the corner shop across from the doll parts store on the 5th floor of the Radio Kaikan Building, near Akihabara Station. (A map is on my website The Tokyo Guide I Wish I’d Had.) The underpants were being sold at a sock shop in Shibuya near the BAPE store, and I already made the mistake of telling you that the claw machine is at Nakano Broadway, so you’re just going to have to try to avoid that whole area of Tokyo, sorry.
If you’d like to visit the Akihabara area the next time you’re in Tokyo, directions & maps are on my website, The Tokyo Guide I Wish I’d Had.
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To support her Neko Atsume collecting habit, Jonelle Patrick writes novels set in Tokyo
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Writing mystery books set in Tokyo is mostly what I do, but I also blog about the odd stuff I see every day in Japan. I'm a graduate of Stanford University and the Sendagaya Japanese Institute in Tokyo, and a member of the International Thriller Writers, the Mystery Writers of America, and Sisters In Crime. When I'm not in Tokyo, I live in San Francisco. I also host a travel site called The Tokyo Guide I Wish I'd Had, so if you're headed to Japan and want to check out the places I take my friends when they're in town, take a look!
It’s a good thing I’m not in Japan! MUST HAVE!! LOL🐈
On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Jonelle Patricks Only In Japan wrote:
> Jonelle Patrick posted: ” I was wandering through Akihabara doing > important book research SHUT UP, when I discovered the key to collecting > all those damnably elusive kittehs in Neko Atsume: put out lots & lots & > LOTS of hundred yen coins and you can attract these! For ” >
Yeah, that’s the problem every time I’m in Tokyo – I pretty much have to PLAN a trip to the post office on the day I leave, because my suitcase is full of Neko Atsume merch and there’s not room for my clothes!
Now you’ve done it! Given us all a case of cuteness overload! 😉
Which is why I couldn’t, er, buy just ONE (><)
This country is definitely the place to come if you love cats. Love those fuzzy underpants-but talk about a visible panty line!
Which is why you have to just wear them like pants. Which pretty much only works if you’re a writer. Lucky for you, you ARE, so get thee to the Atsume Neko shitagi store and get crackin’!
All right, my friend, this time you’ve definitely lost it. Just how many phones do you need???
23. One for each, depending on my mood (´Д` )