Cute stuff in Kyoto

If you know us as a family, you know that we are suckers for cute stuff. Like anything that is cute. Especially itty bitty tiny things. Like small food toys. We can't get enough of them. When we decided to visit Kyoto, I searched for cute stores, using search terms like "totoro" and "studio ghibli," and I stumbled upon an image like this:

and I knew we had to go. These Gashapons, or toy vending machines are the best. They don't just give out crap plastic toys, and even when they do dispense a plastic ball, it's really cute (see below). There are so many it's hard to keep track. Most dispense super cute toys, that you really wouldn't be able to buy anywhere else. The cutest are the miniature food toys.

Miniature Calico Critters

Here is a line up of some of the miniature food toys we accumulated from the Gashapons.

Zoe's finger so you can tell the size of these

Note that the rice balls are pre- and post-toasted, as are the waffles...

Tiny microwave. The inner plate rotates.

Here, the cookie cutter actually "cuts" out the shape:

The white thing is a tube of frosting.