What Are All Those Giggles About Coming From the Photo Booth?

As with most things in Japan, the photo booths here are much more high tech than the ones we've used in the states.

1. First you have to walk around the booth twice to find out where to insert your ¥400
2. Once you pay, you use the touch screen to select the poses you'd like to try. It's completely up to you, but they give you some ideas of ways you may want to pose.
3. Flashbulbs are activated, give us your best smile and say "milkshake", "you're a tiger", or whatever tickles your fancy.
4. Walk around the photo booth three times looking for where your photos may have printed.
5. As attendent where photos print
6. Realize your photos haven't printed yet because they are awaiting your approval (under time constraints of course). Rush back into photobooth to review, edit, and add flare to your photos (but you only have 2 minutes left to review and jazz up your poses since you spent the first 5 looking for where the photos printed).
7. Laugh, edit again, delete some edits, redo other edits, and finally select prints to actually print
8. Remove print from machine (all of the photos fit on one postcard size print). Trim pictures, exchange with friends with little giggles, rinse, and repeat.