Akihabara a.k.a. AKIBA is Japan’s Otaku (geek) culture’s Mecca! Basically it’s a district gathered up with shops of high-tech electric products and all goods related to animation,games,manga,idols and so on. And it’s the place where Japanese Otakus hang out. If you are into Otaku culture, you may already know what it’s like but this is a great tourist destination for everybody to witness the astonishing Japanese underground cultures!
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Akihabara, the Electric Town, is worldly famous as a place where you can find practically anything related to electronics, anime and video games. It is also a center of Japan’s idol culture which is expanding to include Maid girls and Cosplayers. Japanese Otaku culture has grown huge covering the whole world with Japan’s proud gaming and animation which has been booming since 90s.
Starting from Nintendo games lovers to underground idol fans, there are various kinds of Otaku cultures still growing in Akihabara.
So let’s check what Akihabara offers to all of us!
=Electric Products=
So as Akihabara is a home of electric products, it’s arguably the best place in the whole world to shop high-tech gadgets. Not only because the selection of products are huge but they do offer competitive rates as there are many shops gathered in Akihabara to compete each others.
The Most Advanced Mall which Has ALL You Need
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=AKB48 CAFE&SHOPS=
Otaku’s hot culture for last decades, Akihabara is a birth place to many underground idols including Japan’s most popular girls group ”AKB48”. They gained huge amount of fans by their wise marketing as fans have actual chances to meet the idols and communicate with them by chatting, hand-shaking and so on.
=Radio Center=
Where the history of Akihabara began. The 60 years old shopping mall selling millions of electronic components is the place where the word “Otaku” originally came from. It’s also one of the best places to shop model figures in Akihabara.
Enter the Electronic Zone Where Japan’s First Otaku Came from!
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=Gamers/Kadogema=
Only few steps away from JR Akihabara station's “Electric Town Entrance”. The 7 storied building deals mainly with animation and game related goods and if you are looking for your waifu from Japan, this is a good place to find one! The place offers books and CDs and often holds events with popular voice actors.
=SEGA=
As Akihabara is a center of gaming culture, there are numbers of ”Game Center” where you can enjoy playing many different games. “Sega Game Center” has the biggest selection of games and has several branches in Akihabara.
=Gachapon Kaikan=
Sweet precious in a capsule. Gacha-pon is one of Japan’s unique cultures. It’s a vending machine of small toys, mini-sized model figures, key-holders in capsules which normally can be played with 2–300 yen. Akihabara has several shops with over a hundred selections of Gacha-pon machines and the biggest shop is called Gachapon-Kaikan.
=Mandarake=
This 8 storied black building is Arcadia of anime lovers. They offer the best selection of vintage and rare anime/manga/game goods and many collectors and fans travel here to hunt their treasure items even from abroad.
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Check out the convenience store Lawson in front of Mandarake! The store is decorated with popular game series “Dragon Quest” which exists ONLY in Akihabara!
So is there any shop you might be interested in?? If yes, I guess you are allowed to call yourself “Otaku”!
=Locations=
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