[HollyW]

Hearing about your experiences makes me that much more excited for my trip next month. I've been practicing taking sneaky photos at my local Mitsuwa Market here in L.A. and the pictures are coming out great without flash! God bless Sony's little compact cameras.

Well, pachinko parlors are definitely on my "hit list" as well, so hopefully I will have mastered spy photography by the time I visit one. I mean, how can I NOT take a pic of a pachinko machine in Tokyo? Here in Southern California in the 1970s (dating myself here), every suburban family room had an old, refurbished pachinko machine in it. You know, the really old-school kind where you had to flip the lever for each shot.

Thanks again for all your helpful info!