Japanese supermarkets and souvenir stores offer eye-catching scale model displays and a variety of neatly-packed products to arouse your consumerist sentiments. I took some time to browse around Shizuoka station to grab some breakfast and foods to bring home.
This part of Japan is famous for green tea, and is now the largest tea producer in the country at about 40% of total production. It is believed it all started when a Zen monk brought tea seeds from China and planted them in this area in the 13th century.
With New Year's holidays, many local independent stores are closed or have drastically shorter hours. So I ended up grabbing dinner at the train station where shops and restaurants are generally open.
