Monday, May 13, 2013

Akihabara, Electric City







"Field of Autumn Leaves", also known as Akihabara Electric Town, is one of the many famous districts or "wards" of Tokyo. It's a major shopping area for electronic, computers, anime, video games and otaku (the word for "nerd" basically, lol) goods. New items are mostly to be found on the main street, Chūōdōri, with many kinds of used items found in the back streets. Tools, electrical parts, wires, micro-sized cameras, PC parts, and similar items are found in the cramped passageways of Soto Kanda (near the station). Foreign tourists tend to visit the big name shops like Laox or other specialty shops near the station, though there is more variety and lower prices at locales a little further away. It gained some fame through being home to one of the first stores devoted to personal robots and robotics.
I'm not too sure what's going on here

Waiting for coffee; one of our favorite ways to pass the time

Caffeine driven doodles




Good


Bad
Ugly .. jk






Japan: Hats done right


I NEED THIS


Spotted in their natural habitat.

3 more to go


Giant fluffies - no one can resist.

Akihabara



Even weeks later, we still spoke of this place.





Stacks on Stacks ... of burgers

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