Customized 'omiyage'
Several of you have responded to the request for ideas for interesting personalized gifts.
Faith, for example, says that in Asakusa — a top attraction for visitors to Tokyo — you can get a lantern painted with your family name.
"They might do it 'katakana,' I'm not sure," she writes, adding that she also recalls that you can buy a happi coat in the same district with your surname on it.