I was completely unaware of the many Japanese casting reels!   Models with names I’ve never heard of!  
 

before Covid body-slammed the planet we had a trip to Japan planned.  Obviously it got cancelled.  We will have do-overs one day.   Japanese knife?   Nope.  I’m going to a fishing store for my souvenir.  
 

I wonder if they have fishing guides.   ?

6 hours ago, They call me “Gaiter Salad” said:

I wonder if they have fishing guides.   ?

Fuji

Oh boy. I felt a disturbance in the dark side of the force, lol. Some of those JDM reel look so amazing, simply a beautiful combination of function and form. 

3 hours ago, BassWhole! said:

Fuji

Touché!

Are there Japan fishing guides?  There's 10001 MAD snappy answers for that one.  

The Japanese make our fishing niches look downright preschool - Plat lists 22 different classes of rods, but the Japanese have that many niches in offshore alone, from XUL to XXH.  They were also a fishing culture for 1000 years before the old world discovered the new.  

And I can't imagine not bringing home a Japan knife.