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A Video Guide To Akihabara
freaklabs writes "Tokyo Hackerspace just put up a video guide to Akihabara in Tokyo, an area that's densely populated with electronics components shops. We get a lot of questions about where to go over there and also requests for guided tours so we figured it's probably best just to put up videos, descriptions, and Google map markers. It was always difficult to tell people where to go, since the places are hard to find, so we're hoping this makes it easier for visitors to Tokyo that want to get their geek on."
I was there at the opening of the Yodobashi Camera store, where they made a big fuss of how it was supposed to be the new wal-mart of Akiba. Like every other store in Tokyo with the kushidango architecture, it was small, cluttered, and overpriced; the escalators/elevators seemed to take up more floor space than the merchandise. And yes, I was taken to the smaller stores in the back streets, with their random assortments of wires, diodes, screws, and other junk. And the anime fetishist stores with their oh-so-precious original sketches. Some store, whatever it was called, had a TV series on DVD on discount, which I bought, but I was hoodwinked; it showed about 10 minutes of actual show, then spent the next hour interviewing the actress when the series ended. That stuff happens a lot, the yakuza own the copyrights to the show and release scam "collections". I was also taken to the Uniqlo store in ginza, which was "revolutionizing retailing" in Japan. It was about as big as an average convenience store, with merchandise that looked like it belonged at Salvation Army. But let's not forget the prominent ads for "U-15" web sites at the train station, advertising child pornography. After so many years of embarrassing open displays as such, they're finally wisening up over there in 2010 and Ishihara is actually campaigning against it. But yeah, I don't know why I bother talking to Japanophiles about this stuff; they just get violent and deny everything. It seems nobody wants to talk about what's really good for Japan, not the Japanese or the Japapnophiles.
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