All Hallows Eve (eve eve eve eve eve eve eve eve eve eve eve eve eve eve eve eve eve eve)

So, the Japanese, or at least their stores, are obsessed by Halloween.

There are a large number of stores that have special pumpkin flavoured versions of whatever they normally serve to commemorate the occassion, and even more stores that just have halloween decorations up, often for no good reason whatsoever (like, you're a chemist, what does that have to do with halloween?)

Here are a bunch of photos I took, bearing in mind that
a) It's still 3 weeks until Halloween
and
b) I'm at a work conference. I took these either walking to the conference from my hotel, or at Tokyo train station. I'm sure there's loads more out there.

Tokyo station

The same area last time I was here for reference.

The waffle place I wrote about last time.

Chemist/Pharmacy

Even the tendon shop guy is getting in on the action

It's wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube witch!

The greeters outside the pachinko parlour

KFC have a halloween bucket

The duty free shop

A florist

Lipton are getting in on the action

Some store

A lot of chocolate and cake shops are down for a pumpkin flavoured seasonal treat...

or two

or three

Krispy Kreme

Who can go without Halloween Chai tea?

or four

this shop at least sells fruit and vegetables

another pharmacy

A bakery with a dough based jack-o'-lantern

Some places just string up the decorations

like this deli

Pumpkin flavoured honey

Pumpkin Latte

Docomo (a mobile phone telco)

Haunted laptop?

Video game store

Watches

Stairs down to a beef restaurant

A bar

Seven Eleven

I assume the dog is the restaurant's mascot.

A random garden bed at the International Forum (the conference venue) 

Loft (It's kind of Target/Kmart)

Ads in the subway

Lumine Est is like Daimaru, except they already have Daimaru here.

Even the ATM bacground is getting its spook on...

They sell lotto tickets, I think.

There are some halloween patterned ties in the top section.

Pumpkin flavoured kit kats.