About a week ago I went into Sendai with Takahashi to look for motorcycle gear. The first place we went to is– get this– a motorcycle gear and computer parts shop. I am not joking. Outside the front door are parts bins with used bits and pieces of computers, and then when you walk in there is a row of helmets on the right, aisles of jackets and boots toward the back, and computer upgrades on the left. A store that sells brake pads and hard drives? An unholy matrimony indeed. It’s as if someone blackmailed Valentino Rossi and Steve Jobs into opening a store together. In Japan.
What kind of insane genius came up with such a brilliant store?
