Akihabara: Still the Nerdiest Place on Earth | How to Explore It All in Tokyo, Japan

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    Akihabara is still the center of the nerd universe, but it can be a little overwhelming until you understand a few things about how it and Japan works. Everything is concentrated and condensed. Each building is basically it's own community. So, you can ascend from floor to floor discovering anime figurines, manga, lego, video games (new and retro games), hentai, etc. It's insanity, but I'm here to break it down to make it easy to understand.
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Комментарии • 78

  • @legochicano
    @legochicano Год назад +23

    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.

  • @Onihikage
    @Onihikage Год назад +13

    5:59 "I dunno, where do the prudes go? ...Texas?" Bro I'm dead 🤣

  • @largesmallworld
    @largesmallworld Год назад +41

    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.

    • @ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293
      @ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293 Год назад +3

      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?!" 🤣🤣🤣

    • @Vollification
      @Vollification Месяц назад

      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.

  • @davkimber293
    @davkimber293 Год назад +6

    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.

  • @SakosTechSpot
    @SakosTechSpot Год назад +24

    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.

    • @Direwoof
      @Direwoof Год назад

      Ye and full of hoodlums stealing sht, I wonder why Japan has got their act together so much better?

  • @vintovkasnipera
    @vintovkasnipera Год назад +1

    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~

  • @abowers
    @abowers Год назад +3

    Thanks for making this one. These Japan videos are awesome to see!

  • @capitans12
    @capitans12 Год назад +12

    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.

  • @PrinceDavid
    @PrinceDavid Год назад

    Thanks for the cool video! I am going to be visiting Japan April to May!

  • @hyper_sam9812
    @hyper_sam9812 Год назад

    Thank you for these Japan videos!

  • @OPTERON_PRIME
    @OPTERON_PRIME Год назад

    Thanks for this, some day I will view this on the regular as well.

  • @michaelthompson9798
    @michaelthompson9798 Год назад +15

    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 🇯🇵

    • @teksyndicate
      @teksyndicate  Год назад +19

      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.

    • @ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293
      @ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293 Год назад

      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. 😇💖

  • @mooncloud6563
    @mooncloud6563 Год назад

    Real nice, thanks

  • @Manettvibrante
    @Manettvibrante Год назад

    i really liked the tune in the last part of the video!

  • @mbsfaridi
    @mbsfaridi Год назад

    6:33 Can’t wait to see you review “cell sheets” 😊

  • @ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293
    @ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293 Год назад +3

    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.

    • @GlumandaHD
      @GlumandaHD 3 месяца назад +1

      between 18-20 are closing most stores particulary the small ones

    • @ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293
      @ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293 3 месяца назад

      @@GlumandaHD Thank you very much for your reply. Appreciate it. 🤝

  • @itsdeonlol
    @itsdeonlol Год назад

    I love these Japan videos!

  • @anasevi9456
    @anasevi9456 Год назад +3

    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.

    • @ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293
      @ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293 Год назад

      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.

  • @Direwoof
    @Direwoof Год назад +2

    10:10 i love tales of arise! HOOTURU!

  • @ronretired282
    @ronretired282 Год назад

    Spent my youth shopping in this area for stereo equipment and repair parts. Are those type of items still sold in this area?

  • @TheZingolen1234
    @TheZingolen1234 7 месяцев назад

    Bro i need the name of the shop you got the cells form im going to japan in half a year

  • @tofu042
    @tofu042 8 месяцев назад

    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.

  • @X_Term1nator
    @X_Term1nator Год назад

    3:42 which store is that?

  • @Lolitaaki
    @Lolitaaki Год назад

    im going there next year!!!

  • @praetorxyn
    @praetorxyn Год назад +2

    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.

  • @mopeybloke
    @mopeybloke Год назад +1

    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.

  • @aidanomalley8607
    @aidanomalley8607 Год назад

    class music

  • @jonathansakura
    @jonathansakura Год назад +3

    Japan is awesome 👌
    Part of the reason I've been in Asia 4 years now
    Don't miss America at all 😅😊

  • @savingmoneyunapologetically
    @savingmoneyunapologetically Год назад

    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

    • @teksyndicate
      @teksyndicate  Год назад +1

      I only took one large bag back... but I feel regret for all the things I didn't get.

    • @savingmoneyunapologetically
      @savingmoneyunapologetically Год назад

      @@teksyndicate aw I'm sorry, maybe you can go back one day soon!

    • @teksyndicate
      @teksyndicate  Год назад +1

      ​@@savingmoneyunapologetically I'll move there if I can figure it out

  • @spennser
    @spennser 9 месяцев назад

    did anyone ever find a pc centric retro store there?

  • @shanks7987
    @shanks7987 Год назад +1

    Do you know what time the stores in Akihabara are generally open until?

    • @teksyndicate
      @teksyndicate  Год назад

      Usually 8... But some closed an hour earlier or later. It's a daytime thing, but there's plenty of food open late

  • @MrPepo-wh1bf
    @MrPepo-wh1bf Год назад

    just curious - music you use in your videos - is it all Zweihander ? 10:00 - 12:18

    • @teksyndicate
      @teksyndicate  Год назад

      indeed, track 7: zweihander.bandcamp.com/album/ranger-of-the-old-woods

  • @cyberman644
    @cyberman644 Год назад

    Can I find new Nintendo consoles there ?

  • @ralegar1
    @ralegar1 11 месяцев назад

    7:55 bruh ive been looking for those figures now i gotta go back ;_;

  • @bgc3864
    @bgc3864 28 дней назад

    I want to go to Japan this year. Do you know what area sells a lot of good smile/figma figures?

    • @teksyndicate
      @teksyndicate  28 дней назад

      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.

  • @psp785
    @psp785 Год назад

    god I miss japan been 3 years now

  • @SiimKuusik
    @SiimKuusik Год назад +1

    "I don't know where to prudes go? ...Texas?"
    Cue RapBattleOOH.mp4

  • @vulgerq
    @vulgerq Год назад +1

    Prudes would live in Texas or Utah. :D

  • @BOT_0x76DE45AB
    @BOT_0x76DE45AB Год назад

    Try to do multiple stationary shots instead of swinging around allover the place. Giving me a headache.

  • @Ccoolty
    @Ccoolty Год назад

    Nice video! Are you still in Japan? I live here 😎

    • @teksyndicate
      @teksyndicate  Год назад +1

      Not at the moment... But I'm trying to figure out how to move there. It's difficult. I hope to be back soon.

  • @sp3c0ps
    @sp3c0ps Год назад

    Damn this looks the same as shinjuku.

  • @darklordnier
    @darklordnier Год назад

    Bloodborne and Nier figures heaven.

  • @RizzleRye
    @RizzleRye Год назад +1

    I wish you luck.

  • @MagnaRads
    @MagnaRads Год назад

    Enjoy Japan with the wife and kids Logan

  • @darklordnier
    @darklordnier Год назад

    I want to buy A2 figures so badly.

  • @thegrayman1961
    @thegrayman1961 3 месяца назад

    Actually not Texas...... we're pretty unprudish down here.....

  • @UnwantedSelf
    @UnwantedSelf Год назад +1

    How did you go filming? Did anyone ask you to stop?

    • @teksyndicate
      @teksyndicate  Год назад +2

      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.

  • @ralegar1
    @ralegar1 11 месяцев назад

    retro game revival, den den town, kinda beep equse

  • @user-fh1jf8xt3k
    @user-fh1jf8xt3k 4 месяца назад

    you were moving Camera so fast . unable to see things clearly .

  • @50-50_Grind
    @50-50_Grind Год назад +2

    What an insane amount of materialistic stuff.

    • @teksyndicate
      @teksyndicate  Год назад +1

      What culture do you like? Have any Lego sets, posters, figurines, etc etc.

    • @mbsfaridi
      @mbsfaridi Год назад +1

      I mean it’s pretty well known.

  • @GatchaGuy-gf5qt
    @GatchaGuy-gf5qt 9 месяцев назад

    #Otaku

  • @jfilliaplays
    @jfilliaplays 4 месяца назад

    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

  • @JayzBeerz
    @JayzBeerz Год назад

    :)

  • @opinionatedrock7100
    @opinionatedrock7100 10 месяцев назад

    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?

  • @somewhereinthemiddle3050
    @somewhereinthemiddle3050 Год назад

    Is there a reason why the video is so jerky and stuttery? Is the camera you're using capable of 60 fps?

  • @dorian_delorean
    @dorian_delorean 8 месяцев назад

    Texas? 😂😂😂

  • @juliancasa9602
    @juliancasa9602 Год назад

    Show your camera setup.

  • @kwesibruno
    @kwesibruno 10 месяцев назад

    did WW2 actually happen?