Wow! A great electronic garage sale! That's cool! By the way, great lens for your camera. It now goes back between both the view points. It doesn't go from its "mirror image", if you know what I mean. That's great man! :)
I love this place, they sell the most unusual Electrical items like valves for old amplifiers and almost every shape and size eeprom , PCBs and other unusual electronics that you can't find anywhere else in the world
last november a friend of mine took me there, I was so confused and it wasnt very appealing because it wasnt necessarily stuff Id need. but it was cool to see. Ill be back this weekend.
Airplane headphones have 1 cord with a plug that has 2 pins usually. Also often they are those cheap plastic ones you got with your old walkman's for example. I am preparing myself to move to Japan myself, hoping to be there around next year summer. Places like these may proof very useful indeed!
Oleksandr Zubchenko I have already seen the first few episodes of it. There’s even a Doctor who’s ‘reacted’ to the first few episodes and agrees on how accurate the show is.
Hataraku Saigo! 😹🤓🤓 Man, I am watching this animê to remember my science class 😇 The mix between Japanese, Latin names, and subtitles in English are really good to learn 💪
Those film camera bodies and lenses would interest me.. (I have quite a few already). But I'd have to examine them carefully before buying. Most of the lenses probably have stuck diapragms. And I don't know how bad a problem camera lens fungus is in Japan. Most of the camera bodies are lacking mount caps and the lenses rear caps (people probably buy THOSE and leave the bodies behind). Film cameras didn't go obsolete as quickly as digital cameras do these days but they do often stop working. By the way, old SLR lenses make good telescopes with the proper fittings and an eyepiece, or nice macro lenses by means of a reverse adapter (which are REALLY CHEAP on AliExpress).
+ONLY in JAPAN hi. I went this December 2018 to check it out but yes it demolished the building. does anyone knows where I can find it, maybe on new relocation? and what days are available. appreciate for response.
I went this December 2018 (Saturday) to check it out but the building was demolished, does any update where did they go or relocate them? and what day is available of the garage sale. thanks!
Goodwill grade stuff, mixed with some abandoned old stock... xD I'd be there all the time.... if I lived there though. These things are not very worth wasting time for tourists. But a goldmine for people who mess with electronics. Those laptop batteries for instance... I bet you can get a whole bunch of still working lithium batteries in there. They could be sold for quite a bit, repurposed for several things. Lenses and cameras are generally worthless unless you know how to clean them up. These are either old lenses for film cameras or cheap brand ones that are just crap, they can also be found cheap on eBay. But the way they are stored there... must be all scratched up, with mould inside and whatnot. Kinda harsh. But also, you know, super cheap. xD They are manual and usually require some adapter to fit modern cameras, but if you don't mind that, it can be very worth it depending on what you are using them for. Good find though John! My type of place... xD
Wow... SLR camera bodies and lenses!! Most of those seem to be from the 1990s (when they kinda got plasticky), and I don't see any interesting old screw mount bodies or old 1960s rangefinders. You can probably still get film from the likes of Yodobashi Camera. Getting film processed would be a lot harder now than it was only 20 years ago, though. If you are ever around Chicago, be sure to visit American Science and Surplus. There are 2-3 locations around Chicago and the surburbs. This kinda reminds me of it, though it had more in the way of materials and containers and wasn't really a flea market (no used stuff like SLR camera bodies and lenses). They do sell online (sciplus dot com) if you want to get some sort of idea.
I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned those caps in the comments. It's from an anime called Cells at Work; essentially about the human anatomy. Those caps are for the white blood cells in the series.
Cannon handy cam they were so expensive back in the days!!!! Now it's the price of an onigiri!!!! I agree with the owls john it seems fun and all but I just don't like it!!! Good to hear mr seichi is good John!!!
Are they selling any Nepros, Asahi, Ko-Ken Tools. I like to buy foreign tools. I have a lot of German made tools. Wiha, Hazet, Stahlville, Felo, NWS, Knipex pliers and Wera the Czech Republic tools
I will check it out definitely, because i need to get a Laptop when I'm in Japan. Thank you so much for sharing, John! Whats that shop with the Zelda Music?
The hats I saw at 4:20 are ones from the anime Cells at Work. They have the Naive and Kill(er) T Cell hats, as well as the white blood cell and (likely) platelet hats.
So why don’t they mirror the back camera? Actually, the front camera is naturally mirrored and it’s always software inside the smartphone that corrects it - with selfies. It’s why you can record on your phone using front & back at the same time. You have to stop recording then switch to the other lens. UA-cam used to flip it though (7 months ago) but doesn’t anymore after an update.
i remember one time i found a second hand fig shop everything was SO cheap like 5 dollar for evangelion giant figure, never foudn it again :-( it was beyonf yodobashi i think
This is not a secret. It's been there pretty much every weekend for the last 8 years I've lived in Japan, and probably longer. Anyone who frequents Akiba on the weekend knows it's there.
Here in Brazil is election day for President, we are awaiting verification, and you there in the street of Akihaba, walking quietly without concern for crime, because Japan is an example of education and civility ... we will still get to be civilized too.
"And they work !" No, most probably not. I used to be hooked at these places. There is no check and no guarantee that anything you find there will actually work. Most of them most probably do not work.
The building was torn down but the sellers spilled out onto the streets around in on weekends without rain. You can see the same sellers - but it’s not quite the same. However, there are a lot of bargain bin places in the alleys if you look!
Wow! A great electronic garage sale! That's cool! By the way, great lens for your camera. It now goes back between both the view points. It doesn't go from its "mirror image", if you know what I mean. That's great man! :)
I love this place, they sell the most unusual Electrical items like valves for old amplifiers and almost every shape and size eeprom , PCBs and other unusual electronics that you can't find anywhere else in the world
last november a friend of mine took me there, I was so confused and it wasnt very appealing because it wasnt necessarily stuff Id need. but it was cool to see. Ill be back this weekend.
Airplane headphones have 1 cord with a plug that has 2 pins usually. Also often they are those cheap plastic ones you got with your old walkman's for example.
I am preparing myself to move to Japan myself, hoping to be there around next year summer. Places like these may proof very useful indeed!
Thank you John, now I know where I will be going when I arrive in December with my wife.
I passed by but didn’t know what it was. I’m sad I missed out. Everything is worth a look. Thanks for showing us this.
Recently discovered your channel and been loving it! 🥰
I'm from Sao Paulo Brazil, I've been living in Japan for 7 years, and I miss traveling to Japan for a lot of time.
This is one of your best one so far Bro.
Hello from Houston.
Hey you watched this from texas. This place is awesome.
Hats from Cells at Work - 4:18.
Oleksandr Zubchenko Now I know where to get them from, lol. 😉
@@torspedia By the way, it worth watching. Very educational, surprizingly educational (although we are not anime-lovers at all).
Oleksandr Zubchenko I have already seen the first few episodes of it. There’s even a Doctor who’s ‘reacted’ to the first few episodes and agrees on how accurate the show is.
@@torspedia Yes, we have seen these too. I did not know many things about blood cells, even though I had 20+ blood donation procedures.
Hataraku Saigo! 😹🤓🤓 Man, I am watching this animê to remember my science class 😇 The mix between Japanese, Latin names, and subtitles in English are really good to learn 💪
The prices aleays amaze me....$30 for a portable DVD player....amazing!
Akihabara is awesome place to visit and walk around in.
Secret shrine alley was a nice bonus. Cool!
Petri !
It is a camera manufacturer who went bankrupt around 1980.
It is nostalgic.
That was cool shop. I started drool when I saw that cd/md -player. How cool and for that cheap!
I was just there a couple weeks ago searching for a place like that... man. Now I need to travel again
Aww, we were just there a few weeks ago and we did go to the Hanabusa shrine as well. Miss this place soooo much!
I was there 3 weeks ago myself. Hated to leave myself.
Yay it’s working now, enjoyed the tour 👍🏻
I still have one of those portable DVD players, and a camera with film 🤣 Showing my age now😂
Those film camera bodies and lenses would interest me.. (I have quite a few already). But I'd have to examine them carefully before buying. Most of the lenses probably have stuck diapragms. And I don't know how bad a problem camera lens fungus is in Japan. Most of the camera bodies are lacking mount caps and the lenses rear caps (people probably buy THOSE and leave the bodies behind). Film cameras didn't go obsolete as quickly as digital cameras do these days but they do often stop working. By the way, old SLR lenses make good telescopes with the proper fittings and an eyepiece, or nice macro lenses by means of a reverse adapter (which are REALLY CHEAP on AliExpress).
5:45 Unfortunately, this shop closed in October. This building is demolished and a new building is built.
+ONLY in JAPAN hi. I went this December 2018 to check it out but yes it demolished the building. does anyone knows where I can find it, maybe on new relocation? and what days are available. appreciate for response.
Do you know if they reopen somewhere else in the neighborhood?
Today i will go to check the garage sale!! Hope to find some camera lenses :3
OMG! I always explore Akihabara when I was in Japan but I didn't find this shop!!! I want to go back ZZZZZZ
damn, most of that stuff for 500 yen ish goes for about $20 used in the us... those laptops would still sell for $300+ here...
This place is great! Please everyone if you are watching hit that thumbs up to let john know to make more content likes this!
thanks for showing the secret shrine again
Oh this music in the background is from the legend of zelda, a videogame series. 😍😍😍
Wad there but not on a Sunday, had no idea this existed lol.
curry rice shop pretty damn good.. i miss it so much..
Hi from Santiago Chile... thats what we call "Mercado Persa"... good luck hunting!!!! ;)
Just left Ueno, was on vacation. I can't wait to go back.
we need more of peter von gomm
Buscuits Acc when John and Pete are together it's fantastic!!!!!! 😁
You do know, PvG Has his own channel :) check it out!
@@onlyinjapanGO i do!!! 😆
Amazing video would have never known about this
杉元ガレージだ！全然動画残ってないからかなり貴重
I went this December 2018 (Saturday) to check it out but the building was demolished, does any update where did they go or relocate them? and what day is available of the garage sale. thanks!
Oh Dear Stage. The first time i see how dempagumi stage looks from outside
Missed you by a few days. I went to the shrine today and very tight to get to but we'll worth it
That hat with " KILL" word is actually hat that has been used in anime call "hataraku saibo" please check, 日本文化を世界に紹介していただいてありがとうございます。
I haven't found this the shops yet, Bad luck.😑 Please let me know where I can get this shop!🙂
Can you go to where all the old toys (mecha, eg; Mazinger Z, Voltron, etc...) are in Akihabara i would really appreciate it. TYIA
Amazing
Goodwill grade stuff, mixed with some abandoned old stock... xD I'd be there all the time.... if I lived there though. These things are not very worth wasting time for tourists.
But a goldmine for people who mess with electronics.
Those laptop batteries for instance... I bet you can get a whole bunch of still working lithium batteries in there. They could be sold for quite a bit, repurposed for several things.
Lenses and cameras are generally worthless unless you know how to clean them up. These are either old lenses for film cameras or cheap brand ones that are just crap, they can also be found cheap on eBay. But the way they are stored there... must be all scratched up, with mould inside and whatnot. Kinda harsh. But also, you know, super cheap. xD
They are manual and usually require some adapter to fit modern cameras, but if you don't mind that, it can be very worth it depending on what you are using them for.
Good find though John! My type of place... xD
you get some good lens too
Enjoy your weekend with family John, great video :)
Will it be possible for you to make an episode on the various types of KitKats available throughout Japan?
Wow... SLR camera bodies and lenses!! Most of those seem to be from the 1990s (when they kinda got plasticky), and I don't see any interesting old screw mount bodies or old 1960s rangefinders. You can probably still get film from the likes of Yodobashi Camera. Getting film processed would be a lot harder now than it was only 20 years ago, though.
If you are ever around Chicago, be sure to visit American Science and Surplus. There are 2-3 locations around Chicago and the surburbs. This kinda reminds me of it, though it had more in the way of materials and containers and wasn't really a flea market (no used stuff like SLR camera bodies and lenses). They do sell online (sciplus dot com) if you want to get some sort of idea.
I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned those caps in the comments. It's from an anime called Cells at Work; essentially about the human anatomy. Those caps are for the white blood cells in the series.
It’s super weird for those ... who don’t know the anime! But it makes me ask and want to check it out now!
It's a fairly educational series and fairly accurate going by some doctors on UA-cam. Defs recommended.
Cannon handy cam they were so expensive back in the days!!!! Now it's the price of an onigiri!!!!
I agree with the owls john it seems fun and all but I just don't like it!!!
Good to hear mr seichi is good John!!!
I remember being in Chiba when the Akihabara Massacre happened and it was on the news for days and it was shocking.
I just discovered that area today when I was looking for gundam for my friend.
"These are DSLR's! oh wait nvm, just phone cameras" boy I'd love to be a salesman to u
i would buy that laptop for watching movies
Are they selling any Nepros, Asahi, Ko-Ken Tools. I like to buy foreign tools. I have a lot of German made tools. Wiha, Hazet, Stahlville, Felo, NWS, Knipex pliers and Wera the Czech Republic tools
Are the streets closed down like that during the winter as well? Lake around December
Do you know if something like this is still open this november? I’ll be staying at Akihabara and it would be good to some sale stuff ;)
I will check it out definitely, because i need to get a Laptop when I'm in Japan. Thank you so much for sharing, John!
Whats that shop with the Zelda Music?
Ryukami not sure but it’s up Chuo Avenue on the left side from Akihabara towards Ueno.
I had those night vision goggles as a child XDXD
Definatelly would need a trolley on my way from there.
The hats I saw at 4:20 are ones from the anime Cells at Work. They have the Naive and Kill(er) T Cell hats, as well as the white blood cell and (likely) platelet hats.
man i miss going to this place.. o get some good deals here...
The shop is now a car park but if anyone knows where the garage sale may have moved to, can you post its new location?
solman182 as of right now, the market spills in the streets around this area! They were there selling one weekend.
Legend of zelda no ongaku wa chou nastsukashi daiyo
Japan is not weird. The culture is just different.
Just watching about 8:42 - brilliantly random.
Cool!
Those $2 film cameras go for $20 and up in America right now.
I think they implement the mirrorring effect to go about copyright issues when you accidentally take videos of copyright material.
So why don’t they mirror the back camera? Actually, the front camera is naturally mirrored and it’s always software inside the smartphone that corrects it - with selfies. It’s why you can record on your phone using front & back at the same time. You have to stop recording then switch to the other lens. UA-cam used to flip it though (7 months ago) but doesn’t anymore after an update.
You should have seen akihabra in the 80s, all electronics. No manga no maid cafes , just electronics.
Steve Marks would have lived that! It’s fun to learn from those who were here at that time. That topic would make a wonderful documentary.
It HAS been fixed!!!! The mirroring problem I mean. See 26:35 - that's the selfie camera, right???
where do they sell boombox
Where is this place?
I don’t see this!
thanks you !
just curious....whats your nationality
ハタラク細胞😍😍😍😍
i wish i were there.. my bos try to find old equip for restore his video cassette.. huhuhuu
Nice!!!
No more mirroring problem, John! 😆 BTW, when will you do live stream in Shibuya Stream??
i remember one time i found a second hand fig shop everything was SO cheap like 5 dollar for evangelion giant figure, never foudn it again :-( it was beyonf yodobashi i think
You are helping a friend out but didn't link his channel.
Even refurbished stores are expensive in japan
Why i see the AKB 48 Theatere in first second
The akb 48 cafe is right by the train station. It's like one of the first things you see when you get out of the station.
so what you get John?
This is not a secret. It's been there pretty much every weekend for the last 8 years I've lived in Japan, and probably longer. Anyone who frequents Akiba on the weekend knows it's there.
Do you know where they relocated since the building has been demolished?
13 for that laptop id have that little emulation laptop
Here in Brazil is election day for President, we are awaiting verification, and you there in the street of Akihaba, walking quietly without concern for crime, because Japan is an example of education and civility ... we will still get to be civilized too.
Awesome! You ever been ripped off or pretty legit?
You should get the lenovo laptop it was a fucking good price
34:05 Seeing a Jollibee chicken bucket in Japan thrift shop... Wow Amazing... :D
No more zangyo!!! hahaha
16:21 throwback!
Cuci gudang 😀
Men only?
Check yourself, kanji master... no bicycles
can you provide gps location of this market please
Oo, i maybe buy those earphone because i am such a "earphone breaker". What a shame 😂
Have a good day
The alley is just a side street.
4:23野獣
"And they work !"
No, most probably not. I used to be hooked at these places. There is no check and no guarantee that anything you find there will actually work. Most of them most probably do not work.
damn i miss tokyo
does this still exist
The building was torn down but the sellers spilled out onto the streets around in on weekends without rain. You can see the same sellers - but it’s not quite the same. However, there are a lot of bargain bin places in the alleys if you look!
hmm thanks!! do u recommend any as of the moment? Im on my way to akihabara right now HAHAHA
pls tell me address for i go google map pls giv me