Tourist Rosa Quintana joined a pair of volunteer tour guides in Tokyo's bustling Shinjuku district Tuesday on an exploration of a department store basement stuffed with a myriad of gourmet food stalls.</PARAGRAPH> <PHOTO> <TABLE WIDTH='200' ALIGN='right' BORDER='0'> <TR> <TD><IMG ALT='News photo' BORDER='0' SRC='/images/photos2005/nn20050128f1a.jpg' WIDTH='200' HEIGHT='140'/></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD><FONT SIZE='1'><B>Rosa Quintana from Puerto Rico views the entrance to Shinjuku Suehirotei, a theater dedicated to 'rakugo' traditional comic storytelling in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, Tuesday, with volunteer tour guides Hideo Suzuki –

and Noboru Suzuki.

The underground food floor is popular with Tokyo residents but can be bewildering to foreign tourists who attempt to navigate the wide variety of Western and Japanese-style delicatessens alone.