They tend to be a labyrinth with everything from gorgeous linen to painfully cute pencil cases and mysterious snacks.On a pre-pandemic trip to Tokyo, my travel companions and I spent a silly number of hours wandering the department stores of that fair city.We’d buy snacks with no idea what was in the packet. We’d marvel at the fact there were 18,764 different types of Kit Kats to choose from. We would jump out at each other wearing large Hello Kitty hats. It was a gentler time. The store that blew our minds the most was Don Quijote, or “Donki” as it’s known to locals. It’s an absolute riot the moment you walk in the door. While other department stores tried to promote a chic, peaceful shopping environment for their customers, that was not Don Quijote’s M.O. There was blaring music and noise coming from TVs and mechanical toys. Lurid sale signs crammed every square inch. It was like some Tetris-master had seen just how much product they could fit into one department store. We were in sh