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Did you manage to hit the Yodobashi in Akiba? That's really the place to see both some more Japanese products and get a wonderfully overwhelming "this is what i
by larsberg 14y ago
Did you manage to hit the Yodobashi in Akiba? That's really the place to see both some more Japanese products and get a wonderfully overwhelming "this is what it'd be like if you put a Fry's inside a Fry's, added a Best Buy, and threw in an amazing food court" experience.
The electronics dealers along the Akiba side streets are a great place to get off-generation parts on the cheap. For example, last-generation RAM upgrades for your machine, at prices pretty decently discounted from newegg. But I certainly found the rest of Akiba more dedicated to anime/manga/jpop idols at this point than the electronics-focus that we (I'm also a child of the 80s/90s) had been promised.
- kinkora 14y agoFunny you mentioned Yodobashi because I actually stayed 5 minutes away from Shinjuku station when I was in Tokyo and did stumble into it when I was roaming the streets. My impression of Akiba? Interesting no doubt and you are right in a sense that they are probably closest to the "electronic-focus Japan" that we imagined but it was still filled with the same Chinese, Korean or Taiwanese branded stuff. My point is, gone are the domination of Japanese branded electronics (with maybe the exception of Sony) in these sort of places in Japan.