I Bet You Are Wondering Where the Fifth One Is

Let's take a walk to my favorite convenience store!  I'll show you the sights on the way.  Here's the vending machine closest to my house.

Here's the vending machine around the corner from that one.

Here's the vending machine immediately to the left of that one.

Here's the vending machine immediately to the left of that one.  You can see that it's not lit up but the buttons still light up.  Also, some say if you look closely you can still see the ghost of a foreigner trapped inside, taking pictures.

Directly across from those three vending machines is this hotel.  It has room rates by the hour.  Hmmm.....

And back directly across from the hotel is a line of three vending machines.  But right next those is this, my favorite convenience store, Family Mart!  But don't tell Family Mart, I think it's only my favorite because it's the closest.

At this convenience store is a really nice clerk who always seemed really nervous to help me until the one day when I said in Japanese "Do you work every day?" and he was like "Yep, pretty much," and I was like "Wow."  Since then we've been best friends, as in he smiles at me when I come in.

If you continue past the Family Mart, on your way to the grocery store with the cute elephant logo, you will pass a restaurant that looks like this:

This restaurant stinks.  That is, it smells terrible.  And to be honest, I'm not sure that it's this restaurant.  But whenever I walk past it, there is a FOUL smell afoot.  I feel bad for the restaurant if it's not causing the smell, because I know I'm always in the mood for food until I approach the entrance of his place, and then I'm suddenly not hungry and in the mood to run.

And speaking of food, finally here is my final word on the jar of salsa I bought:  It's pretty good.  It's not terribly unlike one of the cheap brands at a U.S. supermarket, like Wal-Mart or Aldi.