Pachinko

While I'm making random observations, let me just add--Pachinko! Pachinko is a game of some sort and there are pachinko parlors all over the place. They seem to full a lot of the time with all kinds of people, including a lot of men in business suits. It's a kind of gambling game, I think. There are people standing on the street handing out packs of tissues with pachinko advertising on them. when the doors open, you can feel the cool air inside, hear the deafening sound of the machines and the music and smell the stench of cigarette smoke. They're brightly lit and very colorful.