ImWorkig in AKIHABARA.Do U have Questions about AKIHABARA?

>>15448870
Sometimes you hear that the "real Akihabara" is dead and that all that's left is tourist traps. What do you think of this claim?

Do you have some pictures?

I live in Tokyo and go to Akihabara pretty often.
Do you have any questions?

>>15448880
Yes and no.

>>15448887
I feel like your answer could have been more informative if it weren't in binary.

>>15448870
Do sexy middle-aged housewives really run around wearing trenchcoats with nothing underneath and flash young boys to fulfill their sick sexual desires?

>>15448870
What is your job?

How many autistic people U see?

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>>15448870
秋葉原へ行ったら、小学生とセックスができます。しかも全部合法です！と日本人の友達から聞きました。
それ本当ですか！？

>>15448890
Well, on the main street there are countless shops that sell generic Japan-themed souvenirs or expensive watches, clothes etc. All these have nothing to do with the image of Akihabara, be it otaku-style goods or electronics. So these stores aims at tourists that just came to Akihabara cause it's not a generic tourist destination.

For electronics there are huge stores like Sofmap, Laox etc., that againt aim at tourists. Laox specifically aims at Chinese ones and often you can see buses with Chinese tourists parking right before the store.

Streets are also littered with countless places to get food of all kinds. In the backalleys you can get kebab at few places, for example.

For otaku-goods you have the more mainstream side. That stuff is usually on the first floors of shops and then higher you go, more niche and pornographic things get. Or lower, some stores have eroge and/or doujinshi in basements.

Around some places you can find girls/maids giving out fliers for cafe where they work, but it's mostly the super mainstream ones like MaidDreaming.

In the backstreet you can find some remains of the "old Akihabara". There are some non-chain electronics stores, one even just like an open market in some garage. Also the smaller eroge shops, like Kamifuusen or Medio.

There are tons of high buildings and in their various floors you can find event spaces. Their entrances are often small and easily overlooked, but sometimes you can see lines of people standing before some non-descript building, so you can surmise there's some upcoming small idol live or something like that going on.

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>>15448914
Sometimes you can certainly witness 小学生 around, cause there's an elementary school nearby.

Akiba seems like a shitty normie otakool tourist trap. Ikebukuro is the cool place for TRUotaku.

>>15448932
For women.

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>>15448926
…ほ、本当だったのかっ…(ﾟДﾟ;)
今から向かっています！

>>15448939
Everyone on /jp/ is a cute girl.

From my experience, the closest thing to the classical image of Akiba is the Oosu district of Nagoya.

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>>15448884
akihabara sta

>>15448902
im SystemEnginer about GIS
i maiking GIS Proglam in AKIHABARA Office

>>15448917
So Akihabara is mostly dead/tourist trap with few exceptions.

Do you know something about other electronics districts, like Nipponbashi in Osaka? Apparently they're far for me TRUotaku centred. Maybe you know something about it.

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>>15448884

INAMORI Shrine in akiba

>>15448974
Looks too clean. Clearly a tourist trap and not a real shrine.

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>>15448974

>>15448972
Nakano Broadway might be worth visiting. Again, there's many tourist oriented stores (and even a doctor's office) there, but you can find more niche otaku-related stores there, especially ones centered on old anime.

>>15448974
The most interesting shrine is the one that was until recently hidden between buildings. The one close to Sukiya.

I'm in akihabara too but you don't see me making a kusothread about it.

>>15448966
This is really cool looking and I don't even like cities.
Maybe it's the street without cars or something.

>>15448880
i looking about AKIHABARA in 10 years.
So AKIBA is changed.
Recently
Builded Business Office and C Workers.

Comming tourist (Chinese etc)

But ,I think AKIBA have potential Changing Town

>>15448940
Get the fuck out of here and never return.

>>15449016
Chill mate, I was talking about 2D.

>>15449016
If you're going to act like a huge faggot again please do it somewhere else, /jp/ doesn't need your anger filled opinions.

>>15448894
i dont know.
but exist that like PornoVideos

>>15448903
Im never seen

I Always looking Hi-tention　OTAKU people

>>15448914
その日本人の友達は正しいです。
ただし、２次元に限ります。

>>15448914
２次元に限ります。

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>>15449059
>>15449062
大事なことなので二回言いましたってやつか…

>>15448914
Kids are for appreciating from afar, NOT for sexualizing!

That being said, I keep seeing two little blond girls running around with tight shirts and hot-pants here in my appartment complex. They can't be older than ten or eleven. What the actual fuck, who allows their kids to dress like sluts?

Why is Akiba full of ugly guys instead of it being a 2D wonderland where everyone goes around in cute cosplay?

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>>15448980
About this Shrine?
coincidentally i founded.

>>15449095
Mhm. I didn't know about it either, so I was pretty surpised when it appeared after they tore down the building.

>>15449079
So Akihabara is NOT Cosplay Town. Its OTAKU Town.
if you wanna Watching Cosplayer
You should go OOSU(like akiba) in NAGOYA
There is Full of layer(World Cosplay Summit)

What's up with the guy yelling in the megaphone about anime

How the hell do the guys hawking electronics at the street stalls not lose their voice after a day?

>>15449175
who is the GUY?

>>15448991
Do you want to talk about it?
Do you work there or are you just passing by?

Fuck Akihabara.
Fuck Tokyo.

Tell me more about Sapporo.

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>>15448974
I think I have been their, that or the Shrine I went to had similar mother cat and baby cat guardians.

>>15449125
Nagoya is too far dude

Fucking otaku

>>15449316
I'll go there next month.

>>15449355
where this shrine?

>>15449392
okay /jp
How about IKEBUKURO in Tokyo?
There hava Cosplay Fes

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>>15449040
Thank you for breaking my dreams, friend. Your honesty is appreciated.

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Where in japan has the maximum density of anibabes and stuff like this

>>15449435
Protip. At the number 5 platform there's an ice cream vending machine. Very good ice cream there.

Another same vending machine is at Kanda Myoujin, where the smaller shrines are at the left side.

>>15449435
>>15449440
>>15449443
This shit looks like Downtown Los Angeles.
What a disappointment.

>>15449460
What did you expect?

>>15449460
Sorry weeb lord.

>>15449460
It's literally three photos from the same spot, I just turned around and snapped them. Chill out.

>>15449460
It looks far too clean and tidy.

>>15449486
Again, what did you expect? It's a normal train station in Tokyo, most people going there are salarymen.

Jesus, considering how easy it's too google anything nowadays, it's surprising how clueless some weeaboos ITT are.

>>15449493
I meant it looks too clean to be the downtown of any major American city.

>>15449509
Ah, fair enough. Japan is clean overall.

I dunno about America personally but I guess with all the blacks and Americans around, it can't be good.

>>15449509
That's a stereotype of American East-Coast cities.
Otherwise the nexus of American West-Coast are clean. Of course every city in the fucking world has that "one street".

I just went to Akiba today.

I didn't do anything on the main street aside from visit Toranoana/Animate, etc... and spent most of my time walking around 1 to 2 streets behind.

I was pretty surprised to find that indian guy at that one electronics store that sounded really fluent "IR"R"""ASSHAEMASE". I could spend ages looking at the old PCs and junk.

Are there any hole in the wall stores that you recommend, OP? I walked into random alleyways and went up a lot of random stairs and kept getting surprised finding stores in the most weird secluded areas with very few customers. How the fuck do they stay in business?

>>15449536
Beep.

>>15449536
>How the fuck do they stay in business?

Magic? Kinda like all those tiny restaurants everywhere

>>15449536
Loyal customers?
Hipsters?
Shady Yakuza business fronts?

>>15449545
Imagine walking into a tiny anime store, looking for a rare figure that isn't produced anymore, just to walk into a yakuza operation.

>>15449551
Imagine them offering you a job

>>15449554
Imagine becoming a Gaijin Yakuza and working your ways up to a criminal underworld boss.

Would be a cool videogame, or atleast a shitty seasonal anime which is forgotten in a week.

>>15449432
I went there before and saw some cute cosplayers but I don't know how to make cosplay friends ;_;

I am a married salaryman

>>15449432
You can see fujos around the park next to Animate there.

>>15449569
make your wife cosplay, take pictures and post them here

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Do people carry around their body pillows?

Are there people who dress in the stereotypical otaku fashion?

When you speak to people are they generally kind, talkative and accepting or are they cold, secretive and rude?

What are some current trends happening at the moment (fashion, culture, etc.)?

Will you get beat up if you wear a certain kind of cosplay?

Thank-you

>>15448970
>SystemEnginer about GIS
Was it difficult to get a job as a developer in Akiba or is it on moderate or high demand?

>>15448870
Sato is this you? w

>>15448870
Haifuri was a disappointment

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>>15450470
It was alright.

>>15449736
Never saw anyone with a dakimakura.

Sometimes you can see in those flanel shirts. And on eroge release day, they even have bags with eroge and perhaps even with a rolled poster, since on release day there are usually promotional giveaways for future releases.

That depends from person to person. It's not like Akihabara is some sort of otaku community, it's a tourist destination aimed at commerce.

I dunno.

>>15448970
can you get me a job?

>>15451855
Oh, I have just the perfect job for you, my friend.

>>15449443
Is something going on in there, like some sort of festival?
I'm asking this because in the flags on the posts, one of them says "welcome" in portuguese. Japan and Portugal have a lot of agreements and the portuguese thought the japanese many things, like how to make bread and pastries.

>>15453231
If you look closely there are also Chinese and German signs so I doubt it's anything specific to that.

>>15453251
Oh, you're right.

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>>15448870
Seeing these pictures made me miss Japan.
It was pretty nice that you can just go take a 30mins train ride and have a stroll at the Akiba backlane or just go to TBS to walk through all the doujin stalls.

>>15453231
No, that's permanent. In one some posts there are changing flags, those are just ads.

>no mention of arcades/pachinkos
>not developing cancer through second hand smoke while crushing the competition

>>15449453
This

All I ever see going to Akiba are normies and what I like to call "normie otaku" (people who dress like nerds but never really do anything nerdy, they just walk around with their friends talking like the rest). This is in contrast with Nipponbashi in Osaka where the atmosphere is more authentic and there's plenty of OG otaku and people just seem to be having more fun. I might be biased but I really have no reason to be, so I dunno.

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Where would I go to find pic related? Akiba is getting so touristy I don't know where to find the figures anymore

>>15453973
The internet

>>15453973
I think i saw some in Nakano

>>15453977
Yeah, but weirdly I find the whole furikomi to be much more annoying than just going to pick it up.

>>15453982
Yeah, Nakano is like the old Akiba. I'll try there next weekend.

>>15453973
Akiba has countless of figure shops.

>>15453973
Just go to mandarake. It has 6fucking floor, how do you miss it? Don't like mandarake, you can go to the shop nearby the shop with the big mazinger statue. Still can't find it? Ask the shop to put up poster buying used figure that you want.

>>15449460
I've been there before. That's pics right on the edge of where all the interesting shit ends by the train station.

>>15454130
>how do you miss it
It's not as easy to find as most of the stores in Akiba because it's a bit off the main road, and its just a plain black building aside from the side (which you won't see from all angles"
I somehow missed it a few times too

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GoodＭornig /jp

Its AKIHABARA now

no OP or any other commenter in this thread but i have a nice camera and am in tokyo . I was going to make some short vlogs to show to my family when i visit them but i am thinking of changing direction and making videos of me walking around (maybe discussing?) different parts of tokyo, And tailoring the videos to these types of threads.

Would anyone want to have/see those types of videos? I don't need to talk or show my face , i wouldn't mind just walking around for a few hours in different locations, Hitting some spots that anons in the thread want me to.

Thoughts?

>>15456509
I would watch this. I'm going next spring so this could be useful for seeing where I'd want to go myself.

>>15456509
I think anons don't really know what they want. Probably the ones that know what they want already have experience on what the places they want to see are like. It would probably be more interesting if you found based on your own criteria things that you know are /jp/ relevant but probably not known enough.

But then, what do I know. I feel that I'd just be watching things I've already seen if you go this route-- you can try to prove me wrong.

>>15456509
Do it.

I wanna see a doujinshi store from the inside and all the wares the have on sale.

>>15456183
That's one badass looking bussines man.
>>15456509
Sure why not?

>>15456660
They have doujinshi. You know, the thin pornographic books.

I mean, what else would you expect?

>>>/trv/

>>15456509
Is there any way I could get you to go to look Laforet and surreptitiously film some of the women's cute clothes shops? I would love to know what they look like

>>15448970
>GIS
If you make those unity game maps, I'll laugh.

>>15450237
high demand

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>>15450385
im not sato

>>15451855
job is myfriend

>>15458569
Really? What skills are most sought after?
Web development?
Mobile apps?
In-house software?
... Unity? >>15457248

>>15457248
you pay money
i make maps
so you and i
will laugh

>>15458606
just In-house software

i miss the akihabara leisure land and the turkish kebab that was hidden in some alley
living in tokyo was a lot of fun

>>15458606
Just look at the Japanese internet, do you really think you will impress anyone there with your new-age buzzwords? They're still stuck in the C programming world with non-existent coding standards and horrible practices. Basically the west at around 1990.

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>>15458632
I have hope when I see small things like pic attached.

Although the Japanese "internet" is not a case of regression but of usage-- the ubiquity of cellphones and general lack of PCs means that text is abundant and "new-age buzzword" dev as we know it is rarer, so I doubt it's always the case. Then there's stuff like mobile game development and you only need to look at Pazudora / Granblue / FGO to know that that's something some people will want.

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GoodＭornig /jp

Its AKIHABARA now

>>15460204
Where are all the cute girls cosplaying/looking for a client?

>>15460204
Hello Suima.
Do you think you can take a picture of the current billboards outside Traders 3, Sofmap 1 and Medio stores? Thanks.

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so what did they put in place of the under-tracks stores?

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>>15458610
wwwwww

>>15460350
okay
i will be take

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GoodＭornig /jp

Its AKIHABARA now

>>15464262
Me standing alone trying to look busy on my phone

>>15464262
me in white with the motherly hips

So, if I am in Tokyo, what general area has the most "hole in the wall" (穴場) stores for hobbyists and general interests?

>>15458632
The Tokyo startup mailing list is still active, but only has listings once ever few months. They are mostly java, some ruby, or mobile development.

>>15448870
What the fuck is AKIHABARA?

>>15464486
The place where Suima works.

>>15448870
Is akihabara a nice place to work at?
Like odd jobs or just manning stores.

>>15458632
practicality vs shitty flash loaded websites

>>15448870

What kind of camera do you use?

>>15465113
Video camera

where is the go-to place for games?

>>15448870
where are you from?

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I looked through every inch of every floor of the Akiba Toranoana today for (C89) [ろ～たり～Engine (神無月元史)] チマハメ (ご注文はうさぎですか?) [英訳]


It's on their website. Does anyone know where else I could find it? I can't tell if it's because it's popular and sold out, or not popular and therefore not stocked.


If I can't buy it in stores, is there a way to order it online without needing a proxy? I'm only here for another week.

>>15466110
Go across the street to k-books and mandarake and checked the used section. They are usually sorted by artist so I hope you can read kana.

>>15466168
Would it be under The circle's name or the artist's name? And are the used sections easy to spot? I haven't been to Mandarake yet, and mostly rushed through K-Books.

>>15466176
Is it porn or non-h?
Porn section is separated so you would know you would be at the right place. Usually new book by popular artists would be displayed prominently next to the aisle so you can spot them with ease.
I think for Mandarake it should be floor4 or 3 for the Akiba branch. The Shibuya mandarake only has 1floor at the basement. Porn section is at that top left portion if they didn't change layout since the last time I went there.

>>15466176
>>15466190
Oh ya it should be under circle name.
Udonya was under う instead of kizuki aruchu.

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>>15462037
Waiting warmly

>>15466218
If he doesn't do it, then I might later this week.

But I don't see what's the point of that, it's just eroge ads and those are usually just pictures of the heroines anyway. It's not like you'll see anything special.

>>15466110
Under my bed.

Literally, that's where I have my doujins.

>>15466239
Thanks. I know.
It's not like this thread can actually give anything special anyways, but I like seeing which works are promoted more prominently in the shops.

>>15466241
That's doujin abuse! They deserve better.

>>15466243
Right now it's Amatsutsumi, Baldr Heart, Senren Banka, Floral Flowlove. Some less "high profile" titles are often advertised on Softmap Akiba 1, there's more space there.

Before its release Maitetsu had pretty much all of the biggest ad spaces and its OP was played on screens in front of several shops.

In a month or two I expect Sen no Hatou to be all over Akihabara. It already was pretty visible in April, when the preorders started.

>>15466252
>Maitetsu
Yeah, I noticed even the google car was able to catch that for how long it was outside shops and on some videos showcasing Akiba recently, which made me wonder how it would be after Maitetsu's release and thus the request.
Thanks for the info.

>>15465355
I meant what name/brand

>>15466265
All gone soon after release. The biggest ad, high up on Sofmap Amusement 館, changed into Purely x Cation even few days before Maitetsu came out. Now it's Amatsusumi, but in between it was few ads for console games. Under that there's a smaller ad for Gin'iro Haruka, which stayed for quite some time now.

Pretty much every ad changes really quickly after the game comes out. For example Maitetsu was on Trader 3 too, now it's Senren Banka, but before it Hanahime Absolute for example.

These ads are obviously non-H and few times I saw ranfom western tourists take photos of them. An exception is Trader 2 recently, the one right opposite to KFC. There's ad for Tayutama 2 with lewd daki showcased too, with minimal censorship.

Also you can see some constant ads inside shops in hard to reach places. For example the wall near the escalator to 6th floor in Softmap Amu is one huge picture of Sakigake Generation heroines.

https://ekizo.mandarake.co.jp/order/detailPage/item?itemCode=1038547730


Am I reading this correctly; it's in stock in their Nagoya store, but sold out everywhere else?

>>15466280
Interesting. It would be fun for me to just walk around and analyze trends in brands/target demographics per shop per week or something. A small but fulfilling dream.
I wonder if that SakiGene ad is there just because they don't have anything better to put or because the owner likes the game (I wouldn't blame him since I like me some Clochette too), it's been a long while since its release.

>>15466303
>I wonder if that SakiGene ad is there just because they don't have anything better to put or because the owner likes the game (I wouldn't blame him since I like me some Clochette too), it's been a long while since its release.

Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear. It's there cause the elevator blocks easy access to the wall.

>>15466318
Oh I see. That's funny actually. Thanks for the small tidbits, they might seem trivial to most people but they're quite interesting for me.

>>15464865
place is so so to working.
Good Point is I can buy DOJINSHI after work

>>15465113
Cell phone
GALAXSY S6

>>15465427
SEGA
HEY
SUPER POTATE

>>15465443
I From /jp

>>15466110
Meybe
TORANOANA
MELONBOOKS
MANDARAKE
etc

kusothread

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GoodＭornig /jp

Its AKIHABARA now

why computers are so pricy in japan? even a 2010 notebook was around 60000 yen in the recycle shop.

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>>15466218

>tfw you live in some boring ass city in nipland

>>15468283
People snatch the good stuff quickly so you gotta keep looking, I got an i5 laptop with XP and Ubuntu on it for around 25k at Takarada.

>>15471125
I'd imagine there'd be festivals every now and then, have you tried going to one of those?

Are there more tourists or otakus there now?

>>15468156
So the Rewrite VN got an anime, eh? I wonder if it will suck like most VN to anime adaptions.

>>15470527
天鏡のアルデラミンか。
Barely seeable, but thank you.

>>15448870
Is Strong Zero really that good?

Guys go here at a set time and date and wave to the camera.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/%E7%A7%8B%E8%91%89%E5%8E%9F%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%96%E3%82%AB%E3%83%A1%E3%83%A9

Also anyone going to Mogra Anison Matrix this Saturday?

>>15456183
>>15460204
>>15456183
>>15460204

I'm loving these "GoodＭornig /jp" photo posts.

So jealous, what are you doing over there Suima and do you have a Japanese girlfriend / wife?

Regular Tokyo holiday fag here.

I have noticed a huge influx in Chinese over the years but there has always been those tourist shops that sell Tax free stuff, also look out for the fake monks trying to con you for some gold charm.

Flea market is really good to pick up a bargin, but I admit Akiba has changed in the past 10 years or so.

>>15471234
Way, way, way, way more tourists.

>>15473055

Yes, but how many of those tourists are otaku?

>>15473171
China, Taiwan and HK have like the biggest weeb population in the world. I am pretty sure 99% of nips content can be found in chink ver. Even for stuff like super robot wars.

>>15473171
Do I see in their heads? What do you even count as otaku?

I guess you can make assumptions about some groups. When I saw see Western families with kids, I presume they're not otaku. Groups of guys in their 20s might buy some Dragon Ball shit, is that otaku? In eroge stores only once I saw another Westerner, some guy buying Kara no Shoujo in Trader 2.

>>15473055
What is even the appeal of that place to tourists?

>>15473236
Shopping. Streets are lined with generic tourist-oriented shops.

And it's mentioned in every guide about Tokyo you can buy.

All the cool kids go to Nakano Broadway these days.

Akiba is a thing of the past.

>>15473250
Nakano Broadway full of tourists and tourist-oriented shops too.

Only different is that you'll see more older otaku-oriented stuff in smaller space.

>>15473258
Is it really a problem, though?
If you can get otaku stuff, why should matter how much tourism shit there is there?

>>15473263
It shouldn't, if you only aim to buy.

But when people say stuff like "Akiba is dead", they refer to this idea of Akihabara as a this sort of "otaku holy land" it was before all the tourist shops and big chain stores came.

And my point is that you can't find that in Nakano Broadway either.

>>15453231
>portuguese
Isn't that more of due to Japanese Brazilians?
>>15449535
>West-Coast are clean
Not with all those hobos in SF
>>15448870
I heard it became loaded with Chinese like Vancouver. True?

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>>15474885

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>>15474892

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>>15474903

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>>15474906
Sometimes these can be eroge ads too (Maitetsu had the spot), but now it's just anime.

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>>15474912

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>>15474915
This is the preorder corner next to Sofmap Amusement. Pretty much anything can be preordered there, including eroge as you can see.

Also on eroge release days, there are usually prize-drawing events being held before Sofmap Amu, this preorder corner and Akiba 1

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This is one Sofmap store little removed from the main crossroad. You'll find it when you walk a little bit towards Ueno Park.

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>>15474925

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>>15474957

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>>15474965

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>>15474971
You can see the Senren Banka domination.

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>>15474982
Medio also feels kinda removed from the main crossroad. I mean, it's like a minute away, but the other shops feel much closer together.

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>>15474990
Kamifuusen. I think it isn't as well known as others, but definetly worth visiting.

Also Mandarake might be worth a visit if you're looking for an eroge artbook. They have a section for them on the "doujinshi for males" floor.

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>>15474996
Bonus.

Yamada Tarou's campaign car. He's a politician proclaiming the need to defend freedom of expression, like cosplay, doujinshi, anime and such things in general.

I also saw him campaigning on last Comiket, before the Kokusai-Tenjijou train station.

Dayum. I was in Tokyo in May and this thread is making me realize I took way too few pictures while I was there.

>>15474885
why would you use shorts when you have such tiny calves? lmao

>>15475008
Thank you very much Anon for the small tour. I can see why Yuzusoft is pretty popular even though they're not really that great, they really market their stuff hard. Also I had no idea they were giving Unionism Quartet the Majikoi treatment, I didn't think it was popular enough for that.

Good to know about Kamifuusen, it's a shop I hadn't heard about, same with the Mandarake tip.

>>15475188
Why do you care about things like this?

>>15475468
I just wanted to bully that random japanese man.

>>15475443
There's also a shop Lammtarra on the main street and it sells eroge in the basement. Same with Animate. There are also two Toranoanas with doujinshi and eroge and Getchu has a physical eroge store in Akihabara too.

Around these there's really not much to photograph, so I abstained.

cool blog thread

>>15475502
If you have things of general interest to write about you're welcome to blog, too.

>>15475481
ever thought about kys?

Is there a maid cafe that you would reconmend?
I have only visited Maidreamin （´・ω・｀）

>>15448870
Last time I went to Akiba I got addicted to Dansou cafes. Do you think they're going to stick around?

Are there any stores where I could track down bemani stuff? I'm looking for a museca e-amuse card.

i like this thread.

what is the japanese word for "upboat"?

If Japan is such a peaceful country how come there are heavy duty shutters covering every single store?

>>15478173
Cause Dindus, Poo-in-the-loos etc. also come to Akihabara.

>>15476565
Are those the ones with the reverse trap girls?

Please tell me about your experiences with them

>>15475188
Why would you not use a capital letter at the start of your sentence? lmao

>>15478173
Because of Americans.

>>15478173
Japan still has crime like theft and vandalism, just a far lower rates.

>>15448870
I'm visiting Akihabara tomorrow
any suggestions on where to go op?

>>15479365
Somewhere else.

what the fuck are tourist traps

>>15458632
>still stuck in the C programming world with non-existent coding standards
->58 y.o. [20+ years Silicon Valley, HW tech]
->seen my share of spaghetti legacy code
->hell, I might be ur guy!

>>15448870
i just went to akihabara 2 hours ago and there wasn't shit there but a station. where all the good shit at?

>>15480438
It got lost in 2003

>>15474925
>>15474930
>>15474936
>>15474944
>>15474947
>>15474953
>>15474957
>>15474965
>>15474982
How do japanese women feel about all this?

They're forced to see shit like this all the time, knowing that there are men out there that want to violate these fake young women instead of real women.

>>15480561
Who cares how they feel about it

>>15480561
I bet they are really angry some men don't want to violate them!

>>15480574
I dunno, guess I just can't comprehend living in a society that accepts sexualizing young girls.

>>15480575
I know I would be.

>>15480575
>>15480561
https://twitter.com/ReoLy_AVA/status/748688578658447360

>>15480561
There are many Japanese women who are into 2D too. I think Comiket is about 50/50 male/female today, but some years ago it was still majority female (or maybe it still is).

Closest thread I'll come by probably. I am a 19 year old american. How do I get on the right track to living in Japan? I am currently studying computer science at a mediocre state university which has some Japanese exchange students, but I don't think the reverse/a study abroad program for Japan specifically. I would like to go there to begin immersion in the language, as studying the language here is not that effective for my brain and learning capability. Any websites/direction would be appreciated, or if you have stories about this kind of thing. I imagine /jp/ would. I would plan to have some kind of engineering job over there at some point, I don't know if this is a thing or not,

>>15481854
>I would plan to have some kind of engineering job over there at some point, I don't know if this is a thing or not,
It's a thing. Countries other than USA have engineers as well.

>>15481868
yeah, but do they want foreign engineers?

>>15481876
Work for an american company with offices in Japan.

You likely don't want to work for a Japanese company.

>>15448980
I know about Nakano Broadway purely because it's your HQ in a game, though im told the layout is pretty close.

>>15448870
Where should I go to buy a Playstation 4? What about in Osaka/Kandai/Umeda area?

>>15482011
The Playstation 4 store

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I was there. Where the hell was everyone else?

>>15482011
Just to go any Tatsuya or place that sell 2nd hand stuff. You can find cheap almost brand new Ps4 most of the time.

>>15483780
Taking JLPT N1 in Ikebukuro.

>>15483840
Tsutaya?

>>15483843
Ah ya, Tsutaya.
Pretty much any jap store that put up poster buying/selling stuff will have them. Even some noname/non-chain small time book stores will have a cabinet for 2nd hand stuff.

>>15483848
Yeah, second hand market for entertainment media and electronics is huge in Japan and it's great.

When getting a console, in Akihabara I'd avoid Trader or Sofmap, they tend to be on the expensive side. In Sofmap you can perhaps get a good deal if you have their card and buy console + games en masse on 中古の日.

If you're just going for a single purchase, I'd try Book Off, they have consoles too. The Book Off in Akihabara is not on 中央通り, but it's close.

>>15470527
Me grinning on the left

>>15474996
Would you get strange looks for being on the "doujinshi for males" floor if you're not male?

>>15484602
I think it would look more normal than a male at 'doujinshi for girls' section.

>>15483780
what the fuck people told me Japs actually know how to dress well.

>>15480590
Your English is pretty good for someone who lives in a society which supposedly doesn't accept the sexualization of young girls.

>>15448972
Different anon here; thanks for taking the time to write all that. Question: are there non-mainstream maid cafes and such that are more popular with locals? Or is all of that mostly for tourists?

>>15485095
Whoops, sorry, that was directed to >>15448917

>>15485095
>>15485099
I guess. I admit this isn't the side of Akihabara I dug too deep into.

The maids from MaidDreaming are certainly the most visible ones, but I saw even some different maid cafes around. Also diferently themed cafes, so you can see girls dressed as ninjas or bishonens etc. around as well. And of course the JK-themed shops are there too. When you go on the street from KFC/Trader 2 towards Akiba Culture Zone, you'll see JKs, then maids, then the other costumed girls.

Once I saw some older guy walking around with a JK-themed girl, which was a curious event, so I kinda watched where they went and she lead him to a smaller shop somewhat far away. Maybe that's what locals go for?

>>15479365
akb48 or gundam cafe

>>15481854
try out for jet first to see if you can stand japan. some people get over there and fucking hate it, others love it and never leave.

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Abit late now, i left japan yesterday and are now returning to norway.
But the question would be "where can i get some damn monster hunter figures?"
I walked around in akihabara for ages until my feet burned and skin on fire from this damn tropical climate.
All i could find was leftover figures from monsters nobody wants. Read on the internet that best place to buy mh stuff is on amazone
Ps: why do they sell cp on the upper floors?

>>15487506
>why do they sell cp on the upper floors?
Just where did you go you dumb frogposter?

>>15487526
Some of the bigger buildings on the mainstreet. Many had cp on those "Event" floors.
I was shocked by japanese culture when i saw this. Who would have thought huh?

>>15487541
>>15487506
i thought they banned that shit because of the olympics.

akiba related question though, are the Gunpla and model shops as amazing as the youtube videos make them look? if you have any video, you should def upoad it to youtube, you'll get shitloads of hits from weebs like me.

>>15471723
its super drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry!

>>15487506
You mean loli or the idol stuff that doesn't technically show anything? They're supposedly going to hide it before the Olympics.

>>15465427
To play:
Club Sega
Taito Hey

To buy:
Super Potato
Trader 1/2/3

Just wander around into shops in general though, prices can vary drastically.

>>15471832
im working there
and have GF in 2D

>>15484736
Not in Akihabara imo
Shibuya is where the fashion is at

>>15474184
SoSo...
but Always I see Chinese Taiwanese Frances etc

>>15476550
schatzkiste

is Traditional

http://schatz-kiste.net/guide.html

>>15476565

i never went
how about dansou cafe?
fun?

>>15478017
>upboat
日本語では
ナイスボート
です。

>>15488847
warau

>>15479365
sorry
i was
sleeepin
where you went?

>>15481975
like jason David Danielson
he is engineer live in japan
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8E%9A%E5%88%87%E3%82%8A%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3

>>15488805
that place looks like an anime dream brought to life, or i finally ascended and I'm now a character in a super comfy old school Squaresoft game.

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GoodＭornig /jp

Its AKIHABARA now

>>15491002
Me on the chair contemplating suicide before my 12 hour shift.

>>15491002
Me in the foreground looking BADASS and probably listening to some KICKASS tunes.

>>15448880
I didnt like how many arabs where in akiba.

Also theirs barely any electronics, just anime stuff and 6 storey porn shops

could i get by living there for a bit if i only spoke english?

I want to go to a crossplay cafe.

>>15491626
In Tokyo? Yeah, but what's the point?

>>15448914

Sometimes I regret being able to read moon. Especially when faggots use it to shit post en masse.

>>15493021
Some are so back alley its hilarious.

>>15491626
As in with job? Cause 東京 (tókyo) is expensive

>>15493086
>Some are so back alley its hilarious.
Where are the good ones?

Can you walk around Akihabara acting all tough and shit, waving your arms around and generally acting kinda rude without getting your ass kicked?

>>15493712
If I catch you doing that I'll whip your ass, boy

>>15493101
Just accept a flier and follow the maid for fun imo.

>>15493712
People wont be intimidated, they'll think you're retarded or have mental health roblems like some of the otaku around the place

>>15487506
You didn't bother going into the HUGE BUILDING with a whole section of monster hunter eh? With all the clothing, plushies, figures, snacks, chibis, eh?

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GoodＭornig /jp

Its AKIHABARA now

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GoodAftarnoooon /jp

Its AKIHABARA now

is there any imouto cafe anymore? nekomimi cafe?

I liked the Japanese landscape threads better.

Whatever happened to those?

>>15497783

the OP went to Aokigahara and never returned

>>15497827
Somebody should set up a shrine in Aokigahara and enshrine the souls of all lost /jp/sies within.

Akihabara would be a good place too, but the real estate premium for that kind of thing seems a lot higher.

>>15497827
Fuck, man.

I miss those threads.

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>>15497783
You can have this photo I took today as a consolation.

>>15480561
>How do japanese women feel about all this?

It's their fault they're mostly ugly or plain

Like most 3d people

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Are there yakuza in akibahara?

>>15496314
>>15496880
So magical. Thanks for not making me japanese, God...

>>15448870
Where are all the anime girls and maids? Also aren't people in Akihabara caring weapons with them? I played a lot of games that takes place in akihabara and I can tell you're lying and not actually working in Akihabara.

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>>15499984
They are around.

>>15500208
Looks cool. I wish I was there with my own physical body. I could see everything clearly with my wide FoV, breathe in the atmosphere and I could even touch the wet streets
I hope I find my physical self there one day

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>>15499984
>maids

>>15500404
looks like she's hoping for someone to come save her

>>15500404
Me third from the right.

What do otaku girls actually look like? Any pics?

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>>15501905

>>15500404
Whoa. Those guys are so damn creepy looking.

>>15501921
Yes, yes, this, but actually IRL. I made a short trip to Japan and not much to Akiba and I don't thik I've seen many IRL otaku girls there aside foreigners.

>>15501928
Well, fuck you too.

>>15501940
You can see a lot of them on Otome Road in Ikebukuro. Many of them are actually much more fashionable than how they are portrayed in media.

>>15501940
I remember watching one on youtube since she posted a lot of games and other stuff. She was very androgynous, but I couldn't make out of she was a transsexual or not

>>15501928
They're probably nice guys it's just society's prejudice against them, unless they're trying to take pictures of upskirts or something

>>15449435
>>15448966
>clean
>no hobos in sight
>can probably walk around alone without fear of getting shanked by a gang of 14 year old moroccans
Don't give in to the multi-culti meme, Nippon. Stay strong.

>>15499984
They Appear after 5pm

>>15501905
always she wear this cloth
http://shop.axesfemme.com/femme/brandtop/femme/

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Going-to-nipland ETA 4 weeks and 1 day!
If I find the YASSY, I will get the YASSY.

>>15503130
When you get there tell them to make more GitS and stop killing whales god dangit

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>>15503119
I want to see a non fat otaku girl wearing this.

>>15503046
>He thinks Tokyo doesn't have hobos

>>15502573
Could you please find the video again?

>>15504768
oh jeez, I'll try but not making any promises

how is this thread still up?

post to kill thread.