#shining store

[bitchfacetokiya]

Shining Store 2024, first year in Ikebukuro

[bitchfacetokiya-archived]

If UtaPri ever releases travel merch, I’m in trouble. I’d spend so much money on those items. But it does have me wondering. If someone wants to visit the Shining Store in Japan, do you have any suggestions for important phrases and general etiquette to keep in mind for someone who might not be well-versed in Japanese? I know there’s a lottery system at the store sometimes, and limits on items, so I imagine as an English speaker, I’d likely be fumbling around in store trying to figure stuff out.

If you’re talking about the Shining Store, there aren’t too many specific phrases you need to be able to say, but there are a few words you may need to understand when reading or hearing them. 整理券 (sei-ri-ken) is a type of ticket that’s distributed for waiting in line for an event or purchase. If you didn’t get an entry in the lottery, on low-traffic days they may pass out these tickets about 30-45 minutes before the store opens for the day. They’ll announce this on their Twitter or it may be designated in advance on the Shining Store website. If there’s no line waiting to visit the store, they’ll change to free entry (written as フリー入場) meaning you can visit freely without a ticket.

限定 (gen-tei) means “limited” or “exclusive.” For store exclusive items that aren’t sold online, they’ll have a sign that says STORE限定 or イベント限定. Typically food and sticky notes tend to be exclusive to physical locations, but this year they did release blankets that they don’t plan to have online. They may also use this word when identifying specific locations where an item can be purchased, such as 大阪限定 (only in Osaka).

Item limits will often be written as “(number)まで.” For example, 3点まで means “up to three.” If you see 各 written before it, that means “each,” so 各3点まで means “three of each.”

支払方法 (shi-harai-hou-hou) means “payment method.” When you’re at the register, after the cashier scans your items and reads your total they’ll ask what payment method you want to use. You can say クレジット (kurejitto)  or カード (kaa-do) for credit card, or 現金 (gen-kin) for cash. If you pay with a card they’ll ask you if you want to pay lump sum (一括 “ikkatsu”) or revolving payment (リボ払い “ribo-barai”). If you wanna avoid any possible confusion or card rejection, it’s probably best to just use cash.

When applying for the lottery, it’s very important to know how different locations are written in Japanese. Because there’s only one lottery page for all shop locations, if you apply for more than one location and you get an entry, you cannot choose which location it is. So if you only want to apply for Harajuku (Tokyo), you must only check the boxes that say 原宿 and avoid the others.

Although this isn’t language related, an important thing to know for the Shining Store is that Harajuku’s location has two floors. During lottery-only entry or ticketed entry, you can only purchase items from each floor once. If you go to the register and pay for items, and then realize that you forgot to buy something, you can’t go back until the shop becomes free entry. Also, if you only want to purchase from the second floor, you can ask them to let you go upstairs right away, but once you go you won’t be allowed to return to the first floor to purchase items from there. This is just some of what’s useful to know, but overall the staff will be sure to help you. To prepare yourself the best things you can do are to look at the website and follow their Twitter, but aside from that, it’s not too difficult. When in doubt, watch what other people are doing!

[reijiwiththegoodhair]

UtaPri Shining Store General Items Group Pre-Order

The deadline for requests is Wednesday, September 25th at 11:59pm EST. After you've received the invoice, please complete the payment by Wednesday, October 2nd at 11:59pm EST.

I’m hosting an order for Shining Store items (non-trading). There’s quantity limits on tote bags (one per person) so please keep that in mind! If you still want to order trading items, the form is here. I’ve also extended the deadline to September 25th. Since everything will be ordered together, I can combine trading and non-trading orders when it’s time to ship!

[utaprinews]

SHINING STORE Harajuku, August 22nd, 2018

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[moirica]

Osaka Shining Store 2017 Aka ~The Year of the Prince Cats~

[sweetdarkselfishness]

7° Aniversario goods

[aishiteruitsumo6]

Utapri Shining Store 2017 Visual

[amisbro]

So we still have no intel about the Movie for UtaPri coming up BUT we have info about the Shining Store opening up more locations in Japan FUCKING CHRIST!