{"id":3203,"date":"2026-06-10T22:56:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T13:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/?p=3203"},"modified":"2026-06-10T22:56:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T13:56:21","slug":"checking-out-hard-off-hobby-off-stores-in-souka-saitama-prefecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/checking-out-hard-off-hobby-off-stores-in-souka-saitama-prefecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Checking out Hard Off\/Hobby Off stores in Souka, Saitama Prefecture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We went on a drive down to Souka City in Saitama Prefecture on Sunday. While the two ladies had their thing to do, I checked out a couple of Hard Off\/Hobby Off locations. The street I was driving on said that Ueno was just 13km ahead, so I really was right on the border of Tokyo. I’ve never driven to Tokyo before and the expressway system is a bit confusing in the middle of the city, but at least it was a straight drive along the Kan-etsu Expressway to Souka. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first place I went to had these expensive Arii Macross kits. The stickers on these say \u63b2\u8f09\u5546\u54c1 (keisai shouhin)<\/em> which means an advertised product. That Spartan for 27,500 yen confuses me… That’s an Imai kit, right? It says it’s 1\/72 scale, which would make it by Imai because Arii made the 1\/100 version, but the white price tag says that it’s Arii. It’s also a “Macross diorama” kit. The stack on the right are 1\/100 variable Valkyrie kits. I didn’t know they go for so much these days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More obscure Macross kits. “System Fortress” diorama kits. Weird.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I proceeded on to another store location, and it wasn’t very far away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lots of legacy Gundam kits from the ’80s at this location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here are B-Club resin aftermarket detail parts for 0083 kits. I ended up not really finding anything of interest. I stumbled upon a Surugaya by chance, but there wasn’t anything particularly interesting there either. Lastly I went to the Book Off Super Bazaar in that town, but it was boring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We went on a drive down to Souka City in Saitama Prefecture on Sunday. While the two ladies had their thing to do, I checked out a couple of Hard Off\/Hobby Off locations. The street I was driving on said that Ueno was just 13km ahead, so I really was right on the border of … <\/p>\n

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