Those would be used pachinko machines (think Japanese slot machines) for sale. Just in case you wanted to start your own gambling ring in your backyard or something.
There were literally just rows and rows of games, and in this picture you can use Aaron as a comparison for how tall the rows were too. They had pc engine, saturn, dreamcast, famicom, super famicom, atari, ps2, ds..... just.... everything. I did some Christmas shopping for my dad here, and I picked up a copy of Persona 1 for the psone for ... wait for it.... 3 dollars. Valkyrie Profile? 5 dollars. Rez for the ps2? 5 dollars! Everything was so cheap! Granted you would have to be fluent in Japanese to play any of these, but it was still awesome. I picked up a copy of Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan! 2 for the DS for $15, and the cheapest I ever found it back in the states was almost $60.
They also had an impressive array of systems for sale, as seen in the first picture. They're just piled everywhere. The second picture is the limited edition Cloud PS3 that I have only seen on rare import sites before. The third picture is of the original Nintendo... which ran on floppy discs, not cartridges. I didn't even know they made these things. 
Oh, and I almost forgot. This is an example of one of their figure aisles. I say one, for the store has many such aisles, which increase in size and grandeur as you go along.
Game Souko also has a lot of Taiko Drum Master games, for which it has my undying adoration and love. I think it's safe to say that Aaron and I will be going here quite often. If anyone wants some awesome Japanese retro games, let us know!
This is the extent of autumn foliage that was left when we went. Next year we'll have to go much earlier in the year. However, we did rent one of those swan paddle boats and go out on the lake itself, which was awesomely fun! The following are pictures from our half hour paddle adventure. :) (Which I won, Aaron was complaining about his legs hurting 5 minutes in, so I paddled us everywhere. Thank you Sannohe hills for giving me awesome biking legs! :D )
These two rather blurry pictures are from Laura's (one of the other ALTs here in town) birthday party. Unfortunately for her, she happened to be born on Halloween, which really wasn't an issue, being an Aussie, until she joined JET and ran into tons of Americans who go out and party on her birthday for entirely different reasons. So, she had her birthday party the night before Halloween at a really neat restaurant up in Hachinohe. There were a lot of other JETs there that I don't usually get to see, and the food was yummy, so it was a lot of fun. :) The best part was that Laura's birthday cake had actual strawberries on it, and it was absolutely delicious (you can only get fruit in Japan in the season it actually grows usually, so there won't be many strawberries anywhere until spring). That, and the fact that Laura really enjoyed her birthday and had lots of fun. That's more important than the cake..... but the cake was really good though. ^-^
And finally, Aaron and I found a Silent Hill arcade machine in a near-by town. Aaron dragged me bodily towards the stupid thing to make me play it with him, and at first it really wasn't that bad. In fact it really wasn't scary at all, and was kind of lame for a bit. Notice both the phrases 'at first' and 'for a bit' employed in those previous sentences, as they are important. About 5 minutes into the stupid game, sirens went off, dark fell, and the creepy faceless stumbling nurses came out of the woodwork to try and cut my face off. This was when I started freaking out a bit..... Then, just because the world hates me, pyramid head comes and starts chasing us through the halls, traps us in an elevator, which we barely escape from, tries to skin some other character in the game alive, and then decides that he'd rather come after us again instead. And then Aaron died, and I was fighting the stupid thing alone. And I practically ran away from the machine. I do NOT care for the Silent Hill games, the monsters are freaky, and the one time I tried to play one on the PS2 I started crying about 30 minutes into it. Aaron gets to play this game by himself next time. Or maybe whenever my mom and dad come out here he can play it with my dad. Either way, I'm never stepping within 10 feet of it again. Stupid Aaron....
They had lots of neat airplanes on display, which were fun to see. That's Chloe, another JET posing charmingly in front of that last airplane. Again, Tucson having one of the largest air force bases in the country, and the plane graveyard, kind of made me immune to these things unfortunately.
If you didn't gather it from my earlier comment about there being an hour wait for a Burger King hamburger: there were tons and tons of people there. Tons. Millions. Billions. Not really, but there were a lot, and unfortunately the pictures above don't really convey the sheer amount of people there. It was pretty amusing to watch the sea of cameras come floating up above the crowd every time a plane flew by. :)
My favorite part of the day, absolutely, hands down, all began when Brian (another ALT) picked up Chloe for some random reason (the girl ALT pictured earlier) and started swinging her around at us. A bunch of elderly Japanese people saw this, thought it was the most amazing thing ever, and then proceeded to ask Brian to lift all of them. So Brian did. This picture is unfortunately just a little post-pickup, and I missed pictures of everything else after that. What happened after this picture was that after Brian picked up the elderly men, they decided that they wanted to try to lift him. Neither of the two men could do it by themselves, so they teamed up together in order to carry Brian around for a bit. Everyone was laughing hysterically, both American people and Japanese, and it was absolutely the most fun I had that day.
I don't know the Japanese name for it, but this is essentially a palanquin. Two strong manly men carried this on their shoulders, while a noble lady sat inside and was touted around town. Apparently said noble lady was also very tiny, since I could maybe get my left leg in this thing. If I squeezed.... It's very old though, which is neat.
This thing apparently separated the peels from fruit that was tossed into it. Or something like that, according to Joe's translation. I believe him though, he's forgotten more kanji than I've ever known.
Speaking of Joe, apparently villagers in Sannohe foretold of his coming in years past and long forgotten. They foresaw, and in preparation weaved the flag of Joe's people to welcome him. :)
These things are amazing, they are hair ornaments made out of bone or something. These were actually in Japanese noblewomen's hair a few hundred years ago or so. They are incredibly beautiful in person.
Weapons! The top picture has a really old gun and some helmets used during battle, and the second picture has a short katana in it, I forget the actual name.... I think it's a nodachi?... Whatever, it cuts people, and I want it. >:(
Japanese warlord armor sets! Can't get cooler than that. These and the palanquin reinforce my idea that ancient Japanese were really, really tiny. These are, however, still awesome.
Unfortunately the glare from the glass makes this picture a bit hard to see, but basically these are woven dragon room screen separator thingies.... I was about 5 seconds away from stealing this and putting it in my living room.
The back gate entrance into the castle compound. Complete with the back of Joe and Chloe's heads.
