Things you may see in Stockholm

People actually fish in front of the government building (across the street from the castle)

Here are some random photos I took in Stockholm.

Dead rat

Houdini clothes. Impossible to get out of?

There is a game for young people called "Ryska posten", but this seemed to be real delivery company.

This shirt says: "Everything is your fault". Which is funny so I bought one.

Life sized Iron Man and Captain America in front of a toy store

"Japanese" things in Stockholm

Japanese restaurant

During my trip to Sweden I noticed that Japanese culture seems to be even more popular in Sweden now than when I lived there. There were quite a few restaurants serving Japanese food (it used be only sushi, but now there were other things too). I also saw a karaoke place that seemed to be similar to how karaoke is here in Japan (small private rooms so you only sing in front of your friends).

Ni hao (Chinese for "hello") is a strange name for a Japanese restuarant

Karaoke

A place called "Japan photo", whatever that might be.

"L'Oro Rosso" looks like an encoding error when written in Japanese: ロロロッソ

Yesterday we passed a place called "L'oro rosso". This is written as "ロロロッソ" in Japanese. Since the first three letters are just squares, it looks like you have a font encoding problem.

The place was small, and quite nice. We had some good wine, and some heated strawberries with cheese.

Living in Ass-Hand

On the way home from Kawasaki, we passed the station 「尻手」("Shitte"). This is written with the Chinese characters for "ass" and "hand". So there are people who live in a place called "Ass-Hand". I sometimes wonder if Japanese native speakers think of these kinds of place names just as names or if they think it is funny.