Department stores having New Year's opening sales are thronged with shoppers buying lucky bags, a popular annual bargain in Japan.
On Sunday, about 20,000 people waited for the opening of a department store in Tokyo's Ikebukuro. Some of them arrived there before daybreak.
The lucky bags contain goods or coupons for services worth much more than the offering price.
The department store is selling 100,000 bags containing 1,200 different sets of items, the most it has ever sold.
The most popular bags are priced at 10,000 yen, or just over 120 dollars.
Some contain a rabbit doll made of pure gold. The rabbit is the zodiac sign for the year 2011.
Some 20,110 yen bags offer coupons for travel to Hawaii or Seoul.
A department store official says the turnout is better than last year's. He adds that making the effort to learn what customers need is important, rather than just waiting for an economic recovery.
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