Purikura Machines

Well, me and Fran are still managing to have cheap days off even though we have both been paid... all thanks to the rain! Hahah, It is getting cooler now, thank goodness, though when there is direct sunshine it is still about 27degrees - pretty hot! Me and Fran are both wearing trousers, jeans and jackets now which feels good!!!  I've even worn my hat and scarf a few times, but it's not quite cold enough for that just yet.

Ok. So we discovered the purikura machines! They are like photobooths, but about 5 times the size so you can have 2 people standing up and moving around in them. There are about 6 lights faceing you and a screen in the middle showing you what posses to do or what backgrounds you want to be infront of (you stand infront of a blue screen basically) then once you have taken the photos you then go and sit in the editing area and you can decorate your photos with lots of different things! You can then hook up you phone and download the photos and get them printed ALL for ¥400 (£3)

ONLY PROBLEM.... it's all written in... 日本 ... Japanese!!! Obviously! haha. Me and Fran had no idea what was going on, and weren't quick enough working it out either!!! haha. So if you go... make sure you take a Japanese friend with you to translate hehe! We had 6 photos taken (they were great too), and there was a timer and we only managed to select 2 photos before realising what was happening. Then we wondered around the booth a bit trying to work out where the photos would be printing... thinking we had been TOTALLY ripped off (we thought... we've just paid ¥400 to pose for 6 photos and then that's it!?!) only to realise a few mins later that you have to sit in the booth next to the photo taking area to edit the photos. When we had both finished decorating our pictures we had NO idea what to do next... we ended up pressing that many buttons (impatient I know!) that we now printed like 30 1cm photos!!! Well we must have pressed way too many of the wrong buttons as you are meant to get 4 decent sized photos printed!!!! Anyway, I thought it was amazing... (after getting over the initial upset of only having 1 cm photos - haha) and I'm gunna go back with Rieko and shes gunna give me the low down on purikura machines (she said they are easy to use... hmmmmmm, I guess that means we are stupid then :-p)! Then when I know how to use them... I'm going to use them ALL THE TIME! hehe. Oh also, Japanese girls are obsessed with being Kawaii/Cute and these purikura machine make your eyes really big like anime characters...!!!