Akihabara Hotels

... leading seamlessly to a "plateau" moving sidewalk, then seamlessly again connecting to another escalator continuing up/down. Cool! Akihabara is a sea of electronics and seems to have even more concentrated signage than Ginza. It was VERY busy ...

... were very noisy, you'd go deaf, but they were quite full with men in suits playing pinball machines. video : Tokyo Akihabara Pachinko Arcade http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meztXk-qiFc After that headed back a few stops to tokyo station Senso-Ji ...

... arcades were very noisy, you'd go deaf, but they were quite full with men in suits playing pinball machines. video : Tokyo Akihabara Pachinko Arcade http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meztXk-qiFc After that headed back a few stops to tokyo station. Near ...

... of Tokyo (aptly nicknamed "Electric City"), in which were were like little children in a massive toy shop (sometimes literally)! Akihabara is where all things electronic can be found, as well as all sorts of interesting toys and other novelty items. One ...

... break we set out for dinner and a night with no plans, just exploring. We started with the bright lights of Akihabara, the technology district. I could have stayed there for hours looking at every little shop, Karla was very tolerant of my ...

... we flew to Narita airport and then from there got a train straight into the centre of Tokyo. We had a slight mishap with one of the hotels we booked, as we booked one for the 5th (which we didn't need to) ooops! but it was cool because we had already one ...

... moment just as the announcer asked, "What does space mean to you?..." Capsule Hotel I stayed in one of the famous capsule hotels, which is well known in Japan for budget traveling businessmen. For 4,200 yen (about $35 u.s. dollars) one could crash ...

... to the centre of tokyo (77kms) no bother. we headed straight for old japan, to a capsule hotel on the riverside. capsule hotels are wicked! its a spot where pissed up jap business men go after theyve missed the last train and u lie in like a plastic ...

... and a mystery to the rest of us. I enjoyed the hot springs and the different lodging options such as ryokan or capsule hotels (you gotta try it at least once!). Nightlife was rather dissapointing, and I found the Roppongi area rather trashy and annoying. ...

... nicht funktionieren oder kaputt gehen wird.  Nach diesem kleinen Vorgeschmack von der technischen Seite Japans, fuhren wir nach Akihabara. Dieses Viertel ist vor allem durch die vielen Technikladen bekannt. Außerdem sind hier Studios, wo Mangas ...

... of banks and office buildings, not much to offer the tourist as far as sights or food. But when Show Dori enters Akihabara (Tokyo's consumer electronics and anime capital) things get much more interesting. But I wasn't planning on doing any shopping ...

... next day was our last day in Tokyo, and Japan... :'(  We spent it walking around in a hungover daze in the Akihabara - Electronic City, to check out the electronics a little more thoroughly... although we spent most of our time looking in toy shops, ...

...              Day 16 Saturday 27th November 2010 Tokyo, Japan (By Danielle) Akihabara… Electric City…. Well our day started late in the afternoon, about 2pm – we did need a bit ...

... club to say goodbye...inevitable we once again ended up at Karaoke :) A hung over day 12 consisted of another wander around Akihabara AKA electric city...we had been there before but i was happy to wander around it again, mainly checking out the ...

... and soak it up    Walking around areas like Akihabara and Harajuku are free and fascinating. We had a quick wander around Akihabara aka Electric Town and perused the massive stores of manga, games and gadgets. We spent most of of a sunny Sunday ...

... kit from around the world from the comfort of their home (or, more realistically, their office desk). Undeterred, we headed to Akihabara, the place to go in Tokyo for electrical goods. Once there though we struggled to find anywhere that was selling ...

... make useful handwarmers. Recommend you try the Royal Milk Tea - divine. Shopping for electronics has to be done in the Akihabara (Ackey-hab-ara ) district of Tokyo. It's a street about 1km long filled with electronics shops, and manga outlets. In my ...

... .  I am way off track.  Back to the angelic glow of this city.  Each area has its own panache.  In Akihabara, the electric city where all the geeks hang out, the sights are all 'techy' and the red lights are replaced with anime ...

... coloured black and blue as well as 'cats' i.e. yep, women dressed up as cats with ears and tails. - Checked out Akihabara (Neon Town).  This is where every nine storey mega-shop was either jam-packed with comics/anime, electronics, old school arcade ...