Akiba Radio Center closing sale.

It's not closing, actually.
Closure for re-building.

Akiba Radio Center will close the end of July.
New Akiba Radio Center will open 2014...

Current shops will move temporally around Akihabara.

Akihabara Radio Center is such a land mark of Akihabara long time....

Book scanning at Akihabara

Scan and import books into iPad.

No scanners?

Come to here with books.

Bring your own USB flash memory.

Direction.

http://odoroku.tv/kanran/

This is part of Akiba broadcasting studio.

Gundam cafe fair

Gundam cafe at Akihabra meet 1 year anniversary.

It's event will be going  since 4/22 ~ 6/5

Special menu's available. Check some imges here.

http://journal.mycom.co.jp/news/2011/04/14/084/

PC game eventi Akihabara!

PC game lovers, get ready, be prepared.

It's held in 4/29 ~ 5/5  at Bellesalle Akihabara
Admission is free.

Get excited!


for more info, visit
http://gamefesta.jp/index.html

Miku Hatsune Charity figure model

Donate by buying Miku figure!

￥1000 donation / buying one

http://goodsmile.ecq.sc/

Evangelion Eyewear

Nice!

Available on Aug 8

Wine girls!

That's unique.....


http://moewine.com/

Volks event on Apr3

http://www.volks.co.jp/jp/event/hobbyround5/index.html

Famous figure modeling company.
It's free,  and nice'n close by. =)

Open street cancelled.....

Akihabara's famous open strret was cancelled, and will be cancelled for a while.


I don't know how much Akihabara has been damaged, but
maybe it's national emergency, we are supposed to hesitate to have fun...

Power shortage in Akihabara

Akihabara is facing power shortage too.

The earthquake casuality affected Tokyo.

Many retailers are saving power not using lights,
some of them are even closed.


I hope we get former life back soon.

CAMPCOM's free new 3DS game workshop

It's at Bellesalle Akihabara.

It's on 29th of March.
15 O'clock-20O'clock.

Come and try new game!

http://www.bellesalle.co.jp/bs_akihabara/

Train song CD coming!

r u a train Otaku?

There are so many of them in Japan.
And train cafe is in Akihabara.

http://littletgv.com/notes/

Furthermore, music CD is coming on 3/23.


It's totally WTF.

Blue LED keyboard

Just released.
It's so cool  lol

Available e-town Akihabara.
Roughly 80 bucks.

Nintendo 3DS

Nintendo 3DS available in Akihabara.


Finally in my hand....

Cheep place to stay

Room Japan is reasonable residence for foreign visitors.
http://www.roomjapan.com/

Nice'n close in Tokyo.

It says 3-month-long stay minimum, though.
Actually my place can accommodate some in countryside Chiba. lol

Akiba Postage Stamp

Original Akihabara stamps are coming.

It includes postal cards, a holder etc.

It will be pre-selled at anime contents expo at Chiba,
after that, the postage stamps wil be sold at Animate stores.

It's quite remarkable that Anime become actual stamps.

Akihabara Toilet. 100 Yen

Check this article.
http://ascii.jp/elem/000/000/355/355847/

High-end rest room is right next Akihabara station.
Called Oasis at akiba.

Only 100 Yen to use.  lol


map is here
http://www.city.chiyoda.tokyo.jp/service/00031/d0003130.html

Low price hotel, close to Akihabara, Palece Japan

Here.
 Take a look.


Palace Japan


Nice'n cheap =)

Miku T-shirt

It's not exactly Miku, but related.

Miku Hatune is a famous character of a voice making software.

This is comedy edition of Miku.

I don know who gonna wear this...

Feb 10th Akihabara

E-town exit.  Citiyscape  changes so quickly.

Free McDonald's?

Technically, it's free with Twitter ads and interview is required.

http://www.mcdonalds.co.jp/beef/bigamerica2/campaign/shop/index.html


Yesterday, McDonald's Sofmap Akihabara branch got special event of
Miami Burger.

It was snowy Yesterday though

Bandai's event at Akihabara

TAMASHII Feature's VOL.2
I don get the meaning of this title, but
Event will hold in Bellesale Akihabara, and it's free.

Friday, tomorrow is national holiday, and bring your friends to Ballesale.

http://www.bellesalle.co.jp/bs_akihabara/access.html

Akihabara Street view

Like Gogle Street View,
this one is exclusively for Akihabara


http://akb360.com/

comic book One Piece vol.61 printed 3.8m copys!!

One Piece is such a mega hit, and new comic book release is as well.

3.8m copies is record breaking gain, now, the vol.61 is placed like a mountain in book stores. lol

Gold aquelion at Bellesalle

It's due to Pachinco event.
It's 10 feet tall.  WTF   lol

Engineering cafe Akihabara

Engineering cafe?

that's unnique...

Engineering cafe, Cafe nano is the place you can get your crafts done.
Tools are free to use, soft drinks as well.
500Yen for 2 hrs

http://cafenano.jp/?page_id=18

EV charger at UDX Akihabara

Electric Vehicle can charge there.

I haven't seen them actually though.
Still Prius dominate...

American PSPs in Akihabara

PSP is still getting popular now.

There's not many stock left in retailers in Akihabara,
some retailers imported American PSPs!


JP yen is expensive these days, the price are nice'n reasonable. =)

Pretzel at Akihabara

Pretzel steres opened at Akihabara Sta.


Auntie Anne’s is at Showa-Dori entrance(to Hibiya Line)  




So, is that popular in Japan?




I have never imagined Pretzel steres in Japan.  lol

Akihabara Open Street resumed!

Yes, it's back again...


Chuo-Dori(Center Street) is open for pedestrians exclusively for 1 to 5 pm.

Enjoy Akihabara!

Wig haircut for cos-player

That's profound.

You can get your cos-play wig done professionally.

"fuwat" 's Anime Cut is what cos-players has been wanted.

Nice'n close.

Pangya World Championship

Pangya World Championship is  going on today at AKIBA SQUARE.




Do you know this PC golf game?
http://www.pjcweb.jp/2010/pwc/


How good are they?




I have never thought about online golf game.
I still love FPS on xbox360....
hmmmm...

free anime A Wandering Son

Brand new Anime,   A Wandering Son which was
just started last Thirsday, its ep.1 is available for free.

Official
http://www.houroumusuko.jp/

Watch it online for free(Just watch it)
http://fod.fujitv.co.jp/s/genre/anime/ser5143/


This anime is from same titled Manga, and it's still on a monthly  magazine.

This anime is about new junior high students who want to be opposite sex.


I watched it , and i liked it.

I gonna record it from this week's episode.

Open Street resume in this Sunday

Poster in Akihabara station.
More fun in Akihabara~.

Today's Akihabara

nice'n cold these days (@@

Phantom Breaker workshop on Jan 16th

Gotta xbox360?

A new girl fighting game demo is available at
Messe Sanoh Akihanbara main branch on Jan 16.

Looks tight to me.

The article is here
http://www.4gamer.net/games/116/G011639/20110113005/


Official site is here
http://5pb.jp/games/phantombreaker/top.html

Toy Wars announcement

Do you like FPS?

Toy Wars announcement was held in Akihabara.
 And Voice actors ware attended it in costume.

original article is here
http://www.cyzo.com/2011/01/post_6350.html

3DS nintendo

Nintendo 3DS 's  exhibition  was held in Chiba.

It was so cool and really 3D.

here's photos
http://q3x3.heteml.jp/imgs3ds/

Open street for pedestrians.

Akihabara's Open Street for Pedestrians will resume on Jan 23 th.
It has been cancelled last couple of years, but finally it'll be back.

I hope Cos-players dance in the street ^^)

Moe-Queen competition!

Moe-Queen competition was held on Jan, 9 th.

I wish I could have seen them perform.


Photos and Japanese article is here
http://jisin.jp/news/2475/2185/

Tokyo Anime Center

Tokyo Anime Center(4F in Akihabara UDX building) is closing 1/10.

There's  closing 3-day event since 1/8.


Voice actors are coming.

Gundam chopsticks

Gundam chopsticks available online for ￥2100

Bit expensive, but sold 3000 sets for 3 months.

!!!

New year Akihabara shrine

It's not exact Akihabara, but close enough.
Kanda Myoujin shrine is typical shrine.
New year is major day, and only day Japanese people become
religious.

There's Wish boards called Ema hanged.
These days, Anime related Ema is getting common. lol

Supposed to be traditional.

Figure models 2010's top 10

http://akibahobby.net/2010/12/akibahobby_2010_ranking.html

It's the top 10 Japanese figure models.