Nakano Broadway

This is a shop with rental cabinets. What you do is rent a shelf in one of these cabinets and pay the shop owner rental fee of X yen per week/month. You then fill it with whatever you want to flog. Each item has a label on it so that people who want to buy your stuff can go to the shop owner and say "I want E-39" which is item 39 in space "E" (just an example). The shop keeper then informs you that you have made a sale and you go and pickup the money at your leisure. Goes without saying that if you dont sell anything, you still have to pay for the cabinet rental space.
Depending on where you go, you will see these filled with Idol, hentai or other rare figures and stuff that people will pay a bomb for.
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