I went to the Sunshine City Mall in Ikebukuro today to look around. Sunshine City has four floors of shops, including a floor of nothing but restaurants. As is the case with most Japanese malls, the stores aren't all that interesting. You'll have much better luck finding neat, "Japanesey" stuff if you visit stores on any district's downtown streets, because Japanese malls are filled with the same GAP, HMV, and Eddie Bauer stores that we have in the west. In addition to the hords of clothing shops, there were also interactive events for small children in the mall (the main one was on the science behind typhoons). Here is a colorful deep-sea train that you could ride around the mall. The train played repetitive Disney-esque music as it crawled through the mall's crowded floors at a snail's pace. I enjoyed looking at the less-than-thrilled faces of the high school students whose part-time summer jobs required that they walk at five-paces per minute in front of and in back of the train to safeguard the human cargo, while being subjected to the same bubble-gum music over and over again.