So just about Ogikubo potentially playing a part.
Ogikubo is a place I used to live from around 2010 and it’s a station minutes from central Tokyo but mostly residential. Its entire shopping area surrounds the train station.
I had seen that the now defunct M/X store that sold the crusher hat, t-shirt, and gloves had a location in Ogikubo and was mentioned on the TMPD website, so I cast my mind back to when I lived there.
When I thought more about it and looked into it I realised that besides the bag and shoes everything the killer had that night was sold in a store at Ogikubo station. A person could visit only the station and purchase almost everything he had:
Hat, t-shirt, gloves - M/X, Ogikubo station
Air tech jacket - Uniqlo, Ogikubo station
Handkerchiefs - Muji, Ogikubo station
Knife - Seiyu, Ogikubo station
Scarf - it had no labels, but as per the TMPD website they
mention it looks like a cheap arcade prize. There is Game Apina arcade - Ogikubo station.
So we have 7 items that were definitely sold at Ogikubo station, and 1 item that has a possibility it could be won from an arcade at Ogikubo station.
As for the knife, it was never actually mentioned by the TMPD where it was sold. However, when looking into reports of the man who bought the same knife in the days prior to the murder that they had recently cleared a few years ago, the news channel were attempting to disguise the location they were reporting on but the signage for Seiyu (a department store and supermarket chain) could be seen inside. I then remembered there is also a Seiyu at, again, Ogikubo station. I used to do my weekly shop there.
Apologies it’s hard to see but you can make out the logo on the news report and also what it looks like clearly here:
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As for the perfume, well, Ogikubo station again has department stores that sold perfume too. But as perfumes are more of a thing used over a longer period of time it’s likely it could have also been purchased anywhere. The hip bag I am unsure as it was said to be a discount store that sold it. There are several discount stores at Ogikubo station too, and one that sold/sells bags just like it, but I couldn’t pinpoint an exact one that sold the bag.
So, with 7 items being available at that station what is the likelihood the killer frequented it or at the very least did his shopping there for almost that entire outfit plus the knife? It leaves me wondering why, if true, he was at that station and if it had any connection to him or the Miyazawas.