In Kanazawa, Dickson and Okuda came across this scene in a so-called oden restaurant, which serves various types of skewers in broth. “This guy’s father started the restaurant in the ’20s. A lot of the smaller diner or noodle-shop restaurants had this pack-rat look, which I thought was funny. He had so much stuff crammed in there: the lucky cats and the decorative memorabilia.”