The Story of Becoming the First Customer: Daimaru Kyoto Store Basement Edition

My hobby is to be the first customer at newly opened shops.
Yesterday, I missed out on being the first customer at Daikoku Ramen, which opened inside the Super Matsumoto Kamikatsura store.
The supermarket itself opened at 9:00 AM, so I went accordingly, but Daikoku Ramen didn't open until 11:00 AM. I couldn't wait for two hours, so I gave up and went home.

I posted the full story yesterday, so please read it if you are interested.

Now then.
Today, a new shop is opening in the basement of the Daimaru Kyoto store. Was it a new shop, or a renewal opening? It doesn't really matter.
Whether there is a 're-' or not, I have a 'reason' to be the first customer here.

Since it is a department store basement food section, it shouldn't be the case that only that shop opens at 11:00 AM like Daikoku Ramen yesterday, so I will head to the basement entrance at 10:00 AM when Daimaru opens.

I don't need to be the first customer of Daimaru itself, just the first customer of a shop inside Daimaru, so I don't need to leave that early.

9:43 AM, arrived in front of the basement entrance.
No one is lining up.
Unintentionally, it looks like I will be the first customer to enter through the basement entrance today.
Daimaru Kyoto has basement entrances on the north and south sides, and I am the first customer at the south basement entrance.

For this shop, I have been checking the flow lines (or is it lead lines?) for quite some time, so my simulation is perfect.
I call this 'hobby-lation'.

Shortly after I stopped in front of the door as the first customer, several people lined up behind me.
I wonder how many of them are here for the same shop I am heading to. Remarkably, everyone except me is a woman.

Are women more likely to want to shop at a department store even if it means lining up before it opens?
It is not good to make assumptions based on a small sample, but when I am shown something like this, I do feel that there is a difference between men and women.
While writing that, I saw a few men here and there. Maybe it was just a coincidence that it was only women. In any case, there are differences between men and women. However, I feel that labeling things as 'men are like this' or 'women are like that' doesn't benefit anyone.

Thanks to this hobby, I have been able to go to shops I would never normally visit, and I believe that brings breadth and depth to me as a person.
It is inevitable that as we age, we only get closer to the things we like and are interested in. After all, as death approaches step by step, before I become 'a thousand winds,' I don't have time to spend on things I'm not interested in, and don't you want to reduce the time you spend with people you dislike as much as possible?
In the midst of that, I can stop by shops I would normally ignore, simply because of the motivation of 'wanting to be the first customer'.
I have a feeling that this kind of hobby will become a trend in the world in the future.

I don't know what other 'hobbies like this' there are, though.
While I was saying that, it became 9:56 AM.
The basement entrance is crowded with people. Daimaru is amazing. Hmm, with this many people, there might be some rivals heading to the same shop as me.

At 10:00 AM, as the Daimaru staff opened the doors, I walked quickly toward my target shop.
I didn't become a thousand winds, but I became one or two.

Following the flow line (or lead line?) from my prior hobby-lation, I arrived at the target shop, and the actual store, which had been hidden by partitions until just recently, was beautifully completed.

If I dawdle, I might get beaten to the checkout by the second customer, so I immediately found a bento box and tried to buy it. However, the first one I found was an eel bento, which was over my budget, so I hurriedly looked for another bento and found a fried rice bento next to it. I immediately picked it up and handed it to the female cashier, who welcomed me with a smile.

'The first customer, huh. Hehe.'
'Yes, it's my hobby to be the first customer at newly opened shops.'
'Then you must go to many different shops.'
What a perceptive and wonderful staff member!

She processed the payment efficiently, and the female staff member next to her also smiled at my T-shirt. I'm glad I live for this hobby.

At 10:00 AM on April 27, Reiwa 7, I am the first customer at Kakiyasu Dining Kakiyasu Shanghai Deli, which had its renewal opening in the basement of Daimaru Kyoto.

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I sell my books and other items at the online shop 'Himashobo'.

● 'The First Customer', a book about my hobby of being the first customer at newly opened shops.

● 'First Customer T-shirt' created in conjunction with that hobby.

● Parallel Kyoto information zine 'Key of KYOTO' vol. 1 and vol. 2.

● You can purchase the 'Wakui Grand Banquet Script', which even people who didn't go to see the Wakui Grand Banquet said was 'interesting'.

Thank you for your support.