While shopping in the Japan Discount Store the other week I noticed this amusing package. These ‘Ultra Big’ condoms are advertised as being an extra 5mm (yes, 5 millimetres!) longer than regular condoms…

Check out these other unusual photos - the vomit bar, the Harajuku oddball, the claw machine with live lobster prizes and samurai Colonel Sanders.

Not UFO Catcher but Marine Catcher

Here’s something interesting I found recently in Osaka, a claw machine with a difference. Instead of the usual prizes of stuffed toys and suchlike, with this one you can get live lobsters! I can see the novelty aspect of trying to win clawed crustaceans with a game of skill involving a claw, but I can’t help but wonder about the animal cruelty aspect, not to mention how anybody who wins a live lobster is supposed to carry it home in a plastic bag.

Check out these other unusual photos - the vomit bar, the Harajuku oddball, samurai Colonel Sanders and the ‘ultra big’ condoms’.

Cherry Blossom Puddle

Fallen cherry blossom petals in Osaka-jo koen. Thanks to Emma Patey for the idea for this one.