This week’s Ranking Paradise went to Tokyo’s most well-known shopping area and asked foreign tourists what they were buying as souvenirs. Here’s the countdown:

Top Souvenirs Foreign Tourists Buy In Ginza

1. Tenshin Amaguri [Tianjin sweet chestnuts]
2. Earphones [from the Sony Store]
3. Okaki [rice crackers]
4. Cosmetics
5. Chopsticks
6. Traditional Japanese Paper Dolls
7. Kashmere Scarfs [from Uniqlo]
8. Anpan [sweet bread filled with red bean paste]
9. Octopus Dolls [a good luck charm for exams)
10. Sake

Additional Factoids

• There is a break halfway through the countdown so they can shock foreign tourists by revealing that property values in Ginza are nearly 25 million yen per square meter!
• Ginza’s Wako clock tower has special illuminations at night, so many foreign tourists take pictures of it.
• Cosmetics and rice crackers were particularly popular with tourists from Asia. Chinese tour buses stop at one particular shop so that their passengers can stock up souvenir snacks.
• Tenshin Amaguri are sold at a kabuki theater that is very popular with foreign tour groups. The street vendor in front of the theater claims that Leonardo Dicaprio once bought some of his Tenshin Amaguri.