Bic Camera store front, with Yurakucho station on the right, Marunouchi & Nihombashi

Bic Camera

Tokyo


Cameras are just the start of the electronic items and much more (toys, sake, medicine, cosmetics, wine) sold in this mammoth discount store occupying a block. Shopping here is like being inside a very noisy computer game, but it's worth enduring for the discounts and the tax-free deals available to tourists.


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