Hard to imagine a place like this exists in our time. This video got me down a rabbit hole and had me listening to Japan City Pop playlist to get me through work. Guess it came out before J-Pop and K-Pop. Haha. Thanks for the video, learned alot.
One small cel shop in Nakano Broadway had a shelf of binders labled with an anime title (like DBZ, Pokemon, One Piece, Yu Yu Hakusho etc.) with each binder full of cels from said anime. Prices were cheaper than eBay.
Many stores are also in basements but because majority of tourists cannot read japanese they rarely enter those stores. There was a weapons stores specialising in highly detailed weapon replicas (swords, guns, etc) that a japanese friend took me into because he was into that hobby. I'm not into weapons but it was amazing just to see in person. The store was behind a plain door that tourists would ignore. But behind that door was a 1/1 scale replica of Guts dragon slayer (Berserk). If you want to take your time and check out every nook and cranny. A week is a minimum but that is still scratching the surface. Also stores and buildings come and go frequently. Visit one year and the next year there is something gone and something new. Akihabara is known as an anime paradise but I like to call it an enthusiasts paradise. Plastic models, dioramas, scale trains, pc gaming, retro gaming, modern gaming, ramen, manga, anime goods, transformers, maid cafes, internet cafes, card games, idol goods, electronics and other interests.hobbies japanese are into. Also every week there is some kind of convention or similar happening in Akihabara.
The most underrated comment. Not enough people travelling to Tokyo are aware of this critically important fact: all the coolest stuff in Japan is hidden in basements, upstairs unmarked from the street entrance, down tiny dark alleyways or in highly unlikely plain buildings that look like 1970s apartment/office blocks. I wince whenever I hear of people going to Tokyo without having done any prior research and thinking the cities are laid out the same way as they are in the West. They're not. The entire city layout, commercially speaking, is TOTALLY different so to stick to the main streets means you're missing out on 90% of the cool stuff you actually went to Japan to see! By the way, in Nakano Broadway (where a great deal of things found in Akihabara are a little cheaper), I found a hentai gachapon! It was hidden in a pokey corner on the 3rd floor and the gachapon 'pods' contained DIY model kids of incredibly detailed, incredibly filthy hardcore pornographic/bondage figurines. I couldn't believe it. I'm going to go back later this year and I pray it's still there, hidden and ignored by seemingly everybody. Akihabara also has a 6 story grot shop with a collection of 'pheromone' body sprays which you would wear like Axe deodorant being sprayed in the air whilst you inhale and I guess, pleasure yourself. I DEEPLY regret not swiping the whole lot into my shopping basket last time I went because they have THE BEST names I've ever seen. "The good smell of your best friend's older sister's armpits"; "The good smell of schoolgirl's polished school shoes"; "The good smell of the crotch of a pair of tights worn by your next door neighbour". I want to buy them all and leave them casually around my bathroom for visiting guests to see. "Is this the perfume you wear?!" 🤣🤣🤣
The small stores is where you find the cool stuff. I still have my favourite T-shirt from one of those stores. It's a satire of the "Obama-Hope" poster but instead of Obama and "Hope" it's "Seig Zeon" with Char Aznable.
I Just got back from 2 week vacation in Tokyo and I still feel that wasn't enough time! Did bring home an awesome haul of goods!!! 😁 Those cells were amazing doe, I was dumbfounded! Too bad the ones I wanted were just a bit too expensive.
It’s nice to see clean streets and buildings 🤩😇etc compared to many Western based cultures where’s the streets are sometimes filled with food packaging, food scraps, drink cans 😠etc. I’d love to visit Japan 🇯🇵
Yeah... I got to one area of town and it was kinda dirty... Litter everywhere, cans stuck into the bushes... Then realized it was the foreign hangout. embarrassing.
I realised it more when I looked at my travel photos back home; at the time my eyes were rolling wildly left, right, up, down as I walked trying to take it all in. When looking at still shots that I could concentrate on I was ASTONISHED to noticed how everything looked clean and new. No litter, no graffiti. No potholes and signs of decay and disrepair. When city workers are doing roadworks in residential areas the last thing they do is clean up the area-- sometimes they'll wash the cars parked there! When the plane leaves Tokyo, the airport ground crew on the tarmac all stand in a line and bow deeply to say goodbye, safe journeys. I went to a homestyle noodle bar in Takayama and the owner's wife came out after us when we left and thrust her hand deep into her kimono jacket pocket saying happily in broken English, 'wait! Please take these, they're my favourite, I hope you like them too'-- and she presented us with two chocolate bars of her favourite snack! Some of the smaller streets and alleyways looked like they'd been vacuumed, no kidding. And inner city homes and businesses have potted plant and flower arrangements with sculptures and other little decorative objects and NOBODY destroys or steals them. Unreal. You leave your stuff on a chair in a cafe and go to the toilet and everything stays where you left it. The stuff of legend. 😇💖
I loved this video. Great comment section too, so it's a great community you've built here, it reflects well on you to have all these interesting, curious, helpful people being generous and cool with each other. One question: What time do the shops start to close for business in Akihabara? It's the one part of Tokyo I didn't explore as much as I wanted to last time I went so I'm unsure and would love to know, if you can remember that is.
It's funny you mention how sometimes you can find incredibly delicious food at unexpected places. My american husband had a Gyro Kebab at Tullamarine Airport in Melbourne a few weeks back and said it was the best he had ever had in his life, and he had several favourite greek takeaways in california back home. Which was a shock because he is generally highly unimpressed with aussie takeaway food, and having visited his family in California and relatives in the UK; sadly have to agree it's generally sub par here.
That's so weird because one of the most surprisingly excellent cups of coffee I've ever had was at Sydney airport at an ungoldly hour of the early morning. I actually went 'wow' out loud. And I'm an incorrigible, unapologetic coffee snob so you can imagine how startled I was by this unexpectedly tasty beverage.
The Floor-Logic also translated to Japanese GPS/Navigation-Systems. I tried to pick up my rental car at Nissan Rentals in Shinjuku, near Shinjuku Station. Google Maps drove me wild, because it said: you are at your destination, which was right, from birds eye view, but I needed to go down 5 stories to reach my car. When I needed to return it, Google Maps brought me roughly to the place, but again it didnt understand the layers. The Built in Nissan GPS knew that the Adress I typed in was down multiple stories and guided me way better.
Really missing 60 FPS on this video. People say anime and games stuff is kind of moving away from Akihabara while it remains the electronics centre. I'm not sure this was true or whether it's on-going.
Nakano Broadway... the alleys have AMAZING food and the 2nd-4th floors are loaded with anime, figures, cells, etc. Some of it is older stuff, but it has some new stuff as well. Otherwise, Akihabara is the best spot for figures, but the food is a lot better at Nakano.
Most common areas are whatever. When I go into a secluded or private area I always ask. Only one place said no but they said, "photos ok, just no video." And it was only because the place was so small that you'd clog the aisle if you were doing more than snapping a few photos. Mostly nobody cares and tons of people take videos.
I’m going for the hentai lol really though my god this is my dream place and I will scratch this off the bucket list one day.. until then I’ll eat mc Donald’s and watch crunchy roll
5:59 "I dunno, where do the prudes go? ...Texas?" Bro I'm dead 🤣
Hard to imagine a place like this exists in our time. This video got me down a rabbit hole and had me listening to Japan City Pop playlist to get me through work. Guess it came out before J-Pop and K-Pop. Haha. Thanks for the video, learned alot.
One small cel shop in Nakano Broadway had a shelf of binders labled with an anime title (like DBZ, Pokemon, One Piece, Yu Yu Hakusho etc.) with each binder full of cels from said anime. Prices were cheaper than eBay.
Many stores are also in basements but because majority of tourists cannot read japanese they rarely enter those stores. There was a weapons stores specialising in highly detailed weapon replicas (swords, guns, etc) that a japanese friend took me into because he was into that hobby. I'm not into weapons but it was amazing just to see in person. The store was behind a plain door that tourists would ignore. But behind that door was a 1/1 scale replica of Guts dragon slayer (Berserk).
If you want to take your time and check out every nook and cranny. A week is a minimum but that is still scratching the surface. Also stores and buildings come and go frequently. Visit one year and the next year there is something gone and something new.
Akihabara is known as an anime paradise but I like to call it an enthusiasts paradise. Plastic models, dioramas, scale trains, pc gaming, retro gaming, modern gaming, ramen, manga, anime goods, transformers, maid cafes, internet cafes, card games, idol goods, electronics and other interests.hobbies japanese are into. Also every week there is some kind of convention or similar happening in Akihabara.
The most underrated comment. Not enough people travelling to Tokyo are aware of this critically important fact: all the coolest stuff in Japan is hidden in basements, upstairs unmarked from the street entrance, down tiny dark alleyways or in highly unlikely plain buildings that look like 1970s apartment/office blocks. I wince whenever I hear of people going to Tokyo without having done any prior research and thinking the cities are laid out the same way as they are in the West. They're not. The entire city layout, commercially speaking, is TOTALLY different so to stick to the main streets means you're missing out on 90% of the cool stuff you actually went to Japan to see! By the way, in Nakano Broadway (where a great deal of things found in Akihabara are a little cheaper), I found a hentai gachapon! It was hidden in a pokey corner on the 3rd floor and the gachapon 'pods' contained DIY model kids of incredibly detailed, incredibly filthy hardcore pornographic/bondage figurines. I couldn't believe it. I'm going to go back later this year and I pray it's still there, hidden and ignored by seemingly everybody. Akihabara also has a 6 story grot shop with a collection of 'pheromone' body sprays which you would wear like Axe deodorant being sprayed in the air whilst you inhale and I guess, pleasure yourself. I DEEPLY regret not swiping the whole lot into my shopping basket last time I went because they have THE BEST names I've ever seen. "The good smell of your best friend's older sister's armpits"; "The good smell of schoolgirl's polished school shoes"; "The good smell of the crotch of a pair of tights worn by your next door neighbour". I want to buy them all and leave them casually around my bathroom for visiting guests to see. "Is this the perfume you wear?!" 🤣🤣🤣
The small stores is where you find the cool stuff. I still have my favourite T-shirt from one of those stores. It's a satire of the "Obama-Hope" poster but instead of Obama and "Hope" it's "Seig Zeon" with Char Aznable.
Thanks for making this one. These Japan videos are awesome to see!
I Just got back from 2 week vacation in Tokyo and I still feel that wasn't enough time! Did bring home an awesome haul of goods!!! 😁
Those cells were amazing doe, I was dumbfounded!
Too bad the ones I wanted were just a bit too expensive.
Thanks for the cool video! I am going to be visiting Japan April to May!
Awesome rendition of Senbonzakura on all the Japan videos, love it! The prices on all those figurines are so cheap I might actually visit Tokyo once~
Thank you for these Japan videos!
Real nice, thanks
Thanks for this, some day I will view this on the regular as well.
i like how everything has it's place. it was all so organized and placed with intent. shits all over our stores in the US.
Ye and full of hoodlums stealing sht, I wonder why Japan has got their act together so much better?
I love these Japan videos!
i really liked the tune in the last part of the video!
6:33 Can’t wait to see you review “cell sheets” 😊
10:10 i love tales of arise! HOOTURU!
It’s nice to see clean streets and buildings 🤩😇etc compared to many Western based cultures where’s the streets are sometimes filled with food packaging, food scraps, drink cans 😠etc. I’d love to visit Japan 🇯🇵
Yeah... I got to one area of town and it was kinda dirty... Litter everywhere, cans stuck into the bushes... Then realized it was the foreign hangout. embarrassing.
I realised it more when I looked at my travel photos back home; at the time my eyes were rolling wildly left, right, up, down as I walked trying to take it all in. When looking at still shots that I could concentrate on I was ASTONISHED to noticed how everything looked clean and new. No litter, no graffiti. No potholes and signs of decay and disrepair. When city workers are doing roadworks in residential areas the last thing they do is clean up the area-- sometimes they'll wash the cars parked there! When the plane leaves Tokyo, the airport ground crew on the tarmac all stand in a line and bow deeply to say goodbye, safe journeys. I went to a homestyle noodle bar in Takayama and the owner's wife came out after us when we left and thrust her hand deep into her kimono jacket pocket saying happily in broken English, 'wait! Please take these, they're my favourite, I hope you like them too'-- and she presented us with two chocolate bars of her favourite snack! Some of the smaller streets and alleyways looked like they'd been vacuumed, no kidding. And inner city homes and businesses have potted plant and flower arrangements with sculptures and other little decorative objects and NOBODY destroys or steals them. Unreal. You leave your stuff on a chair in a cafe and go to the toilet and everything stays where you left it. The stuff of legend. 😇💖
I loved this video. Great comment section too, so it's a great community you've built here, it reflects well on you to have all these interesting, curious, helpful people being generous and cool with each other. One question: What time do the shops start to close for business in Akihabara? It's the one part of Tokyo I didn't explore as much as I wanted to last time I went so I'm unsure and would love to know, if you can remember that is.
between 18-20 are closing most stores particulary the small ones
@@GlumandaHD Thank you very much for your reply. Appreciate it. 🤝
im going there next year!!!
It's funny you mention how sometimes you can find incredibly delicious food at unexpected places. My american husband had a Gyro Kebab at Tullamarine Airport in Melbourne a few weeks back and said it was the best he had ever had in his life, and he had several favourite greek takeaways in california back home. Which was a shock because he is generally highly unimpressed with aussie takeaway food, and having visited his family in California and relatives in the UK; sadly have to agree it's generally sub par here.
That's so weird because one of the most surprisingly excellent cups of coffee I've ever had was at Sydney airport at an ungoldly hour of the early morning. I actually went 'wow' out loud. And I'm an incorrigible, unapologetic coffee snob so you can imagine how startled I was by this unexpectedly tasty beverage.
I'd love to go to Akihabara someday, but I've never really been a collector or anything so I dunno what I'd even do there.
class music
The Floor-Logic also translated to Japanese GPS/Navigation-Systems. I tried to pick up my rental car at Nissan Rentals in Shinjuku, near Shinjuku Station. Google Maps drove me wild, because it said: you are at your destination, which was right, from birds eye view, but I needed to go down 5 stories to reach my car. When I needed to return it, Google Maps brought me roughly to the place, but again it didnt understand the layers. The Built in Nissan GPS knew that the Adress I typed in was down multiple stories and guided me way better.
Spent my youth shopping in this area for stereo equipment and repair parts. Are those type of items still sold in this area?
l loved the video!! so kool to see all of the gems. was shipping expensive or did you just carry your loot back in your luggage?
Thanks for sharing
I only took one large bag back... but I feel regret for all the things I didn't get.
@@teksyndicate aw I'm sorry, maybe you can go back one day soon!
@@savingmoneyunapologetically I'll move there if I can figure it out
Japan is awesome 👌
Part of the reason I've been in Asia 4 years now
Don't miss America at all 😅😊
Bro i need the name of the shop you got the cells form im going to japan in half a year
Really missing 60 FPS on this video.
People say anime and games stuff is kind of moving away from Akihabara while it remains the electronics centre. I'm not sure this was true or whether it's on-going.
3:42 which store is that?
7:55 bruh ive been looking for those figures now i gotta go back ;_;
Do you know what time the stores in Akihabara are generally open until?
Usually 8... But some closed an hour earlier or later. It's a daytime thing, but there's plenty of food open late
just curious - music you use in your videos - is it all Zweihander ? 10:00 - 12:18
indeed, track 7: zweihander.bandcamp.com/album/ranger-of-the-old-woods
Nice video! Are you still in Japan? I live here 😎
Not at the moment... But I'm trying to figure out how to move there. It's difficult. I hope to be back soon.
did anyone ever find a pc centric retro store there?
I want to go to Japan this year. Do you know what area sells a lot of good smile/figma figures?
Nakano Broadway... the alleys have AMAZING food and the 2nd-4th floors are loaded with anime, figures, cells, etc. Some of it is older stuff, but it has some new stuff as well. Otherwise, Akihabara is the best spot for figures, but the food is a lot better at Nakano.
Prudes would live in Texas or Utah. :D
"I don't know where to prudes go? ...Texas?"
Cue RapBattleOOH.mp4
Bloodborne and Nier figures heaven.
Can I find new Nintendo consoles there ?
I wish you luck.
god I miss japan been 3 years now
Damn this looks the same as shinjuku.
I want to buy A2 figures so badly.
Try to do multiple stationary shots instead of swinging around allover the place. Giving me a headache.
How did you go filming? Did anyone ask you to stop?
Most common areas are whatever. When I go into a secluded or private area I always ask. Only one place said no but they said, "photos ok, just no video." And it was only because the place was so small that you'd clog the aisle if you were doing more than snapping a few photos. Mostly nobody cares and tons of people take videos.
Enjoy Japan with the wife and kids Logan
Actually not Texas...... we're pretty unprudish down here.....
retro game revival, den den town, kinda beep equse
What an insane amount of materialistic stuff.
What culture do you like? Have any Lego sets, posters, figurines, etc etc.
I mean it’s pretty well known.
#Otaku
you were moving Camera so fast . unable to see things clearly .
I’m going for the hentai lol really though my god this is my dream place and I will scratch this off the bucket list one day.. until then I’ll eat mc Donald’s and watch crunchy roll
Hentai? Nakano Broadway
Is there a reason why the video is so jerky and stuttery? Is the camera you're using capable of 60 fps?
Akihabara looks like there are a lot of hentai. I'm planning to go there with the kids. Do you think it's a good idea?
:)
Texas? 😂😂😂
Show your camera setup.
did WW2 actually happen?