We were visiting Tokyo the last couple of days to go to the Tokyo International Gift Show. Last week, one of our suppliers, San-X, invited us to come and meet them in person. So we decided very quickly, that we will fly to Tokyo to meet them. We booked the airplane tickets and the hotel a few days before the show and flew to Tokyo on the 1st of February. Luckily we got 2 tickets because it is Chinese New Year right now and lots of Chinese people are going on holidays to Japan. We spent 4 days at the gift show and walked for hours and hours to check out all the booths. We met some companies who we ordered from before like San-X, Prime Nakamura, Debika and Echino, and we found a lot of new contacts. There were so many nice products displayed and we talked to so many companies, we had trouble to carry all those catalogues we got with us. 😉
We even met Rilakkuma and his friends, Kapibara-san, Beggar Swindle and others in person. It is not allowed to take pictures at the gift show, only a few booths got a special permit to allow photos while the characters were walking around. Of course I had to take some pictures with them 😉
I met Rilakkuma and his friends!
Kapibara-san and me
pink Beggar Swindle character
evil Beggar Swindle character
in front of Tokyo Bigh Sight, the exhibition center in Tokyo
we had a meeting with San-X and had to take a picture
San-X’s booth at the Tokyo Gift Show 2011
lots of people lining up to register for the show
entrance to the Gift Show trade fair
Tokyo Gift Show
Tokyo Big Sight at night
I had to use this foot massage in the hotel room every night, my feet were so sore
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