Inline skates or shops.

Joey Bananas

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Aug 25, 2003, 7:22:58 PM8/25/03

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Hey,

I have been living in Saitama for a few weeks now and I am having
trouble finding a skate or sporting goods shop that sells inline
skates.
There is a place by Minami Koshigaya station called Opa that has a
shop that advertises inline skates on their sign yet doesn't have any
in the shop.
Anybody know where I can find such a place? Saitama,Chiba and Tokyo
are all accessible for me.

Thank you,

JB

John W.

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Aug 25, 2003, 9:04:45 PM8/25/03

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A quick Google search revealed the following:

http://tinyurl.com/l6bs

Inside this page is:

http://www.rockslide.co.jp/

Looks to be mostly online, but you could send them an email and ask.

John W.

Bryan Parker

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Aug 25, 2003, 10:15:42 PM8/25/03

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"John W." <worth...@yahoo.komm> said:

He specifically requested inline.

Joey Bananas

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Aug 26, 2003, 3:37:01 AM8/26/03

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> >
> A quick Google search revealed the following:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/l6bs
>
> Inside this page is:
>
> http://www.rockslide.co.jp/
>
> Looks to be mostly online, but you could send them an email and ask.
>
> John W.

Thanks but I had already googled that one up and it's a bunch of
skateboard stuff as far as I can tell and it's online only. I want a
real store I can walk into and do some shopping.
Thanks for helping but I actually did find a couple of places down in
Tokyo to check out.
Pretty funny that the place at Opa had the sign but no skates though.

JB

Michael Cash

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Aug 26, 2003, 5:56:58 AM8/26/03

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On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 20:04:45 -0500, "John W." <worth...@yahoo.komm>
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>Joey Bananas wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> I have been living in Saitama for a few weeks now and I am having
>> trouble finding a skate or sporting goods shop that sells inline
>> skates.
>> There is a place by Minami Koshigaya station called Opa that has a
>> shop that advertises inline skates on their sign yet doesn't have any
>> in the shop.
>> Anybody know where I can find such a place? Saitama,Chiba and Tokyo
>> are all accessible for me.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>>
>A quick Google search revealed the following:
>
>http://tinyurl.com/l6bs

http://funskates.com/shopbbs/indexp.cgi looked promising. *Looked*
promising.

Michael Cash

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Aug 26, 2003, 5:57:14 AM8/26/03

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On 26 Aug 2003 00:37:01 -0700, lick...@yahoo.com (Joey Bananas)

belched the alphabet and kept on going with:

>Pretty funny that the place at Opa had the sign but no skates though.

Welcome to Japan.

Joey Bananas

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Aug 26, 2003, 7:52:30 AM8/26/03

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To Mr. Cash,

Yeah,it looks good but my reading of this shit is only so good.
Thanks for the help though as I may just figure it out!

JB

Michael Cash

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Aug 26, 2003, 2:16:05 PM8/26/03

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On 26 Aug 2003 04:52:30 -0700, lick...@yahoo.com (Joey Bananas)

belched the alphabet and kept on going with:

>To Mr. Cash,

>
>Yeah,it looks good but my reading of this shit is only so good.
>Thanks for the help though as I may just figure it out!

Basically that page is a bulletin board where each topic starts out
with info on a specific store and posters follow up with reports on
the store. The few I looked at pretty much paralleled your experience.
Looks like there is a fair-sized interest in inline skating in Japan,
but very few merchants who have bothered to step up and fill the need.