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The real Akihabara is great, so many random used electronics stores! I'll bet you can't go to the basement of one and play with random junked 2010s era flip pho
by warning26 3y ago
The real Akihabara is great, so many random used electronics stores! I'll bet you can't go to the basement of one and play with random junked 2010s era flip phones in whatever games you've played!
- eloisant 3y agoI feel like it's a shadow of what it was 20 years ago. So many electronics stores replaced with creepy otaku stores. The electronics market was kind of an alibaba cavern. Well I guess it was bound to happen since now with Internet it's much easier to shop online for weird parts, but it's still sad.
- Dalewyn 3y agoThe electronics stores are still around, but they are indeed a shadow of what they once were. An interesting thing to mention is that the otaku culture is also starting to wane, Akiba is slowly relinquishing the title of the Japanese pop culture capital. What will the next trend for the town be? The jury's still out.
- claudiawerner 3y agoWhen I went in 2018, I loved the 'creepy otaku stores', maybe because I am a bit of an otaku, hah. To each their own.
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoThat sounds amazing, but also incredibly frustrating because there'd be so much stuff I'd want to take with but not really have a use for, lol. I do wonder where all the used electronics in my country go to. I'm sure it's collected and just exported or broken up for recycling.