Indeed! I saw that NRT duty free today had the Hakushu 18 ... for roughly double what the Costco price was. Now, I'm used to the "special edition" markups at the NRT & HND duty free shops, but that was just insane.

I also saw the Hibiki 17 was up to 20000 (from the 16000 it was last year when I picked a bottle up). Same design, so I passed this time. Now, start rotating through new art every 6 months to a year, and I would be tempted to splurge just for the novelty of new bottle art.