My question is about this "Sareine" place. What on earth is a シャルサロン? It's pretty obvious what word サロン comes from, and my dictionary says シャル is charm, but what's a "charm salon"?
Do they sell charms? Like, for a charm necklace? Harmless trinkets, the Eastern equivalent of rabbits foots and four-leaf clovers in the west? Occult stuff, things purported to have actual mystical powers? Is it just a hair salon whose styles are supposed to make you charming? Do they teach people how to be charming? None of these ideas make very much sense to me. I'm grasping at straws here. What's a charm salon?
I think if I don't find out the answer to that question, it may haunt me for weeks.
The sign doesn't say 「シャルサロン」 ...it says 「サレーネフェイシャルサロン」 ("Sareine Facial Salon").
It's a place where (mostly) women go to get their face cleaned and massaged.
In order, those places are: a beauty salon (for hair), a kids' English school, "Curves" women's gym, Sareine Facial Salon, "Dr. Tsuboi, DDS", and "Apaman Shop".
I see curves has spread to Japan now also.
ReplyDeleteMy question is about this "Sareine" place. What on earth is a シャルサロン? It's pretty obvious what word サロン comes from, and my dictionary says シャル is charm, but what's a "charm salon"?
ReplyDeleteDo they sell charms? Like, for a charm necklace? Harmless trinkets, the Eastern equivalent of rabbits foots and four-leaf clovers in the west? Occult stuff, things purported to have actual mystical powers? Is it just a hair salon whose styles are supposed to make you charming? Do they teach people how to be charming? None of these ideas make very much sense to me. I'm grasping at straws here. What's a charm salon?
I think if I don't find out the answer to that question, it may haunt me for weeks.
Re: "Jonadab"
ReplyDeleteThe sign doesn't say 「シャルサロン」 ...it says 「サレーネフェイシャルサロン」 ("Sareine Facial Salon").
It's a place where (mostly) women go to get their face cleaned and massaged.
In order, those places are:
a beauty salon (for hair),
a kids' English school,
"Curves" women's gym,
Sareine Facial Salon,
"Dr. Tsuboi, DDS", and
"Apaman Shop".
If you want to check the place out, the address is:
ReplyDelete兵庫県伊丹市西台1-3-1 駅前サンハイツ(XYZ)F
Take the West Exit out of Hankyu Itami station. VERY CLOSE!
I wonder if Blue Shoe works in the "foreign language gakuin" of that building.
Whoa, someone's familiar with Itami. And no, I don't work at the ECC place - I'm a high school ALT.
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