If you thought Apple’s flagship US store in NY was great, take a look at Ginza, Japan’s palace of iPods. The store holds about 1,000 Nanos, which are just sitting around, waiting to be purchased or stolen—and guards to make sure the latter rarely happens. Other than the huge number of iPods and Macs, there are video monitors on each floor displaying what’s there and giving you directions to the floor that has what you want.
The coolest thing (shown above in the video) is the elevator, which gives you a virtual video tour of each floor in a Tron-meets-Jonathan Ive fashion.
iPod Overseas Report: Tokyo, Japan 11/2006 [iLounge via Slashgear]
