I was lucky enough to be part of the Hello Kitty Online Closed Beta. And I was even luckier to be one of the winners of the “Farm Expert” contest.

So here’s my prize, just arrived today:

Thanks to the HKO staff and my HKO CB friends who helped me!

Always Thank You!

That’s the last of my hello kitty hangings… see my previous posts for the others!

I’m feeling very sleepy now.

Wish I could have a nap…

Be careful out there.

Hello Kitty likes sushi.

Hello Kitty is sushi.

Hmmm.

Continuing the previous post…

Here’s Hello Kitty in front of the Shinjuku Sanrio Gift Gate store — she is huge!

For fun here is a comparison of some of the cellphone charms and reality:

In Odaiba, there is a small scale Statue of Liberty, still quite large. A.k.a. the Goddess of Liberty. :)

Enoshima railway — this is a small railway running from Fujisawa through Enoshima to Kamakura along the coast, where there are beaches and surfing. That’s why she has a surfboard!

And in Kamakura is the Big Buddha, Daibutsu:

That’s a good place for a kitty to rest.

More photos later…

Hi! Got back from Tokyo, found some nice HK items:

This is my favorite, Pineapple Kitty, which I managed to get from a UFO Catcher machine! At the time I said I was winning it for my wife, but I haven’t handed it over to her yet :)

Also fun are these two goth/punk kitties (h.NAOTO x hello kitty). The one on the right is called h.Blood and the one on the left is called h.Anarchy3. There are many girls in Harajuku dressed similarly:

There are so many different gotochi cell phone charm kitties, it is amazing.

There are gotochis for every place in Japan, foods, outfits, occupations, events…

The official Sanrio store I went to in Shinjuku had plenty of items, but it wasn’t huge. It was easy to find Hello Kitty in souvenir stores, 100 yen stores, and department stores. It was not easy to find other Sanrio characters besides HK herself — just saw MyMelody and Cinnamoroll.

I saw Hello Kitty Precious in the Isetan department store (sorry, no photos) — that had the truly special items — the luggage, the phones, the jewelry, photo chocolates, the tokidoki x hello kitty, and other “x hello kitty” clothing and handbags, limited edition items.

More to follow…

Pineapple kitty welcomes you!