Omiyage, or traveling gifts, are gifts which are given to coworkers and friends whenever someone goes on vacation or even a day trip to another city. They are most often food products (usually desserts). You can find omiyage shops in train stations or at various tourist destinations - and their products are themed accordingly. Whatever things a city is famous for will have prime real estate in their station's omiyage shop. You will also find omiyage shops at parks, shrines, and festivals.
You can read more about omiyage on this blog from gaijinpot:
http://blog.gaijinpot.com/japans-curious-omiyage-culture/
The indoor lighting made all of these pictures turn out poorly, but the displays are brightly lit with enough colors to make a rainbow jealous. These particular omiyage are in the shop just below the Sky Tree in Tokyo.
The Sky Tree is apparently famous for banana crackers and macarons.
and here are wisteria traveling gifts...
oh so cute!!!! Don't let me go there... I'd want to buy everything! hahaha
ReplyDeleteIt is super cute, but omiyage is too expensive to actually buy a lot of it... :P
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