Wiiiiiiiiii

WE got ourselves a Wii. My first console ever. We consider it a technological 'investment' and considering we had 20 000yen worth of gift voucher for Bic Camera and the other bits and pieces you inevitably have to buy in addition to the Wii are that bit cheaper here in Japan, we couldn't not buy one...Actually, we would have bought one of those super-duper massage chairs, but it was definitely out of our price range - more like one months rent or maybe two.

After spending most part of the day checking out the prices in several different shops in Akihabara [秋葉原] we ended up paying 5000yen in cash for the Wii (comes with one Wiimote, nunchuck, console, but no game). Then, using the store points from buying the Wii, we bought a second nunchuck (it turned out that BicCamera was the cheapest place to buy a nunchuck at 1600yen. Bic Camera also sold a rechargable battery pack (and charging station seperately) for the Wiimote...

Heading off to BookOff we bought a second Wiimote (again the cheapest we found - including our scouting of the second-hand exchange shops), Mario kart (new) and Rayman's Raving Rabbids Returns (new) - both a tiny bit cheaper than the RRP in the main shops. We also splashed out on Tetris for the DSlite which brought the total spent at BookOff to 15000yen.

When we finally got home we unpacked everything and plugged it all in and did all the setup in Japanese...which wasn't too bad. However, the news being in Japanese is a bit of a bummer (supplied by Goo). And after vigorous checking of the setup, there is definitely no option on the Japanese market console to change the language (unsurprisingly). On the brightside the english menu is exactly the same setup as the Japanese one, so if there were any big issue with understanding what the Kanji says in the options, we just need to pop on the internet to see what the english manual says...Anyway, it's turned out that the Wii also has the added function of making us improve our Japanese. Just as long as we need to tell people that they need to shake their nunchuck up and down or round and round it's fine.

Oooooooh unpacking!