I live near Atlanta, Georgia, US, and I would think being a fairly populated and up to date city, there would be some nicer stores around, but the only ones I have access to are a bit creepy and very limited. We used to have a very nice, tasteful boutique-type store.It had all kinds of toys lubes and lingerie, and was very couples friendly, but unfortunately the closed minded government mandates shut them down recently. We need more places like that!

Have you tried the Liberator Store in Atlanta? (Link)

I really want to go there sometime

That would be awesome to go to!

According to my Army friends, Juarez is off limits too them too for the very same reasons. The possibility is very large and very real.

Japan is full of sex shops. Pricey ones too. The people who come to Honolulu from Japan are surprised we only have one dingy sex shop for the whole state. (That's all we need, the economy here being so bad and thousands of females in hostess bars, streetwalking, or so addicted to drugs they will do anything without a condom for ten dollars.)

I am excited to visit some sex shops then! YAY!
I also really wanna stay in a love hotel while there.

We're going to Okinawa so I'm sure our options will be limited. I'm still excited to try and find some good shops.

So far in the towns I've lived in, there's 1 maybe 2 shops per town (and in the case of 2 shops, it was really 1 shop, 2 locations). They tend to be pretty vanilla and geared towards couples with small sections for light BDSW, porn, lingerie, anal toys, etc, but mostly party stuff. One store I loved in CA was run by women for women and had the BEST lingerie selection (style AND size!) and a nice variety of toys! Where I'm living now doesn't have ANY adult stores - not even a skeezy hole-in-the-wall porn shop, so I'll have to go into 'the city' to explore there. LOL!

I have only been to two really 'comfortable' sex shops in Australia. One was in Alice Springs and seemed to have a wide variety of things but had a large focus on gags for bachelorette partys etc. The other was in my home city and is also online, but is a considerably more expensive than here. It has costumes and high quality sex toys without pthalates. Very female friendly. But it doesn't stock nearly everything I might want.

Most other sex shops I have been to don't have this quality in mind and push really substandard stuff as being their premium product. It's like adult videos and mags are their specialty and they have all these big jelly dongs on the side. Maybe I'm a snob, I don't know, but I don't want to even try jelly or anything remotely ugly.

I haven't really looked for harnesses etc. But I have seen one shop that put these in their window, so I guess that was the shop I would look in if I wanted them, or other kinky leather gear etc.

Some pharmacies here stock vibrators. But there are only durex ones, and I paid through the nose for mine. I don't even like it!

I guess a small conservative population can't really support many big adult stores easily, and the stores that are here probably can't get the good prices from the manufacturer from bulk purchasing. Makes me sad.

With all these responses I'm thinking I might go travelling. Even a bigger australian city might be better than here. But anyways I'm happy with what I'm getting online.