We only had about half an hour before we needed to head back to Ginza for lunch, so we scanned the store directory, set a rendezvous time, and took off hunting in different directions.

First stop:  Monchichi!  I haven’t seen a monchichi since Heather and I were little kids scraping the paint off our own little monchichis’ noses against the wall during nap time.

Then, of course, for the boy cousins:

And then, up on the top floor as if it were nirvana or an adorable Holy of Holies, the Hello Kitty Shop.

Seemed like a good place of find treats for my nieces…

I’m guessing they didn’t suspect the manly black baskets would be used for Hello Kitty merchandise…

I knew I was in trouble when the shopkeeper intervened with a larger pink basket.

I’m pretty sure that a house with that many kitties would not, in fact, be very cute at all.