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| == '''Translator's Notes''' ==
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| === Pierrot ===
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| Pierrot, French clown, has a black teardrop under one eye.
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| === photo booth pictures ===
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| The Japanese is プリクラ; purikura, short for "Print Club." You take photos in a booth and get photo stickers.
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| === keychain mascot ===
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| The Japanese is キャラクターもの; kyarakutaamono, seems to be small, cute keychain mascots, from a quick google.
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| === prefectural road ===
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| Prefectures are akin to states in the US. So prefectural roads are like state highways -- meant for traffic within the prefecture.
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| === wordplay ===
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| 語呂合わせ "goro-awase" literally means "joining word-sounds" ... basically games with words/numbers. For numbers in particular, you can make sentences, and usually the sentences are rude/shocking. Some examples given in the [http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%AA%9E%E5%91%82%E5%90%88%E3%82%8F%E3%81%9B Japanese Wikipedia article] are:
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| 427 = "死にな" = "shinina" = "shininasai" = "die (command)", and
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| 37564 = "皆殺し" = "mina-goroshi" = "everyone killed; the murder of everyone" = "mass murder; total annihilation"
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