Hey there! Here we are again with the second episode of our trip to Tokyo. After a much-needed rest we went out for a walk since we still had to get familiar with the streets of Tokyo. We chose to visit Akihabara, a big commercial block filled with skyscrapers covered in sparkling lights. Here you can find thousands of multi-layered shops and the sheer life in the place is frantic. It’s the best place to buy whatever you need related to technology, manga and animation. Outside the shops there are always a lot of employees shouting offers, drawing customers in and out of the shops looking for everything and nothing while giant screens blaze all around.
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Akihabara can be easely reached with the JR Yamanote Line and the best time to visit it is in the later at night. At 11:00 pm the place is completely dead. Actually each block has its “opening time” and it’s normal to move from an ampty one to a crowded one in little time. Our hotel was in OchaNoMizu and so we were able to reach Akihabara on foot.
On foot you can move along this street and Akihabara is visible right away, its giant billboards are obvious even from far away.
Once in Akihabara we saw a great number of people cramming on the streets and in the shops. Here you can see bright signs for CDs, DVDs, Computers, games shops, and Karaoke.
We went inside some of these shops and noticed that their set-ups were always alike: shops spread out on more than one floor are reachable by stairs or elevators. Each floor has it’s own payment point. We saw posters of Shin Kotetsu Jeeg along the Akihabara main street
Another nighttime picture of Akihabara. The colourfull lights of the signs is quite enough to light the street up.
The people gather close to the pedestrian walkways in a continuous flow that seems to never stop. Along the street there was also some cosplay dressed girls giving away flyers of shops and clubs or sponsored items like fans or tissues. In the photo you see pedestrians waiting to move across the street, a very HUGE number of people waiting near the traffic-light. The traffic-lights were also hooked up with a nifty device that makes a sound so that blind people know when to cross the street.
Sadly it was forbidden to take pictures inside the shops. Following, you can see two almost-human-sized robots buyable at insane prices. Some of them were marked with prices around 1.000.000 Yen, ($9,300 USD) The Robot in the photo is the Great Mazinga just outside of a shop.
And this one is the super classic Gundam rx-78-2
Walking around is of course a nice way to make you VERY hungry, so we moved toward the hotel to eat something.
And what’s better than a cup of steaming ramen?! We entered the shop and the very kind waitress showed us our table and took the orders (the water is always free) and in little time we are ready to eat. *ç* Our first Ramen!! Delicious *ç*
For now it’s all, I hope this was apetizing!
ciao !!
.::Yuki_Sakuma::.
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