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Books · Tokyo, Akihabara
Jimbocho: the district of 130 bookshops
About 130 bookshops, most of them secondhand: ukiyo-e prints, old maps, vintage manga, art books.
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Anime shopping · Tokyo, Akihabara
Radio Kaikan and Akihabara Electric Town: figures, manga and gachapon
10 floors of figure and card shops (K-Books, Kaiyodo) in the Radio Kaikan building, and around it: Animate (mostly character goods), Mandara
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Retro gaming · Tokyo, Akihabara
Super Potato: a living museum of old video games
Two floors of consoles and games from the 80s and 90s (Famicom, Game Boy, Sega), and on the floor above them a retro arcade, from ¥100 a gam
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Shopping · Tokyo, Asakusa
Kappabashi: the street of kitchenware and knives
800 meters of shops where Tokyo's chefs buy their gear: Japanese knives (Kama-Asa), ceramics, and plastic food that looks real, a souvenir y
Architecture and shopping · Tokyo, Shibuya
Omotesando: Tokyo's Champs-Elysees
An avenue of zelkova trees, lined with brand buildings by big-name architects: Herzog and de Meuron's Prada, and a Toyo Ito building that si
Anime shopping · Tokyo, Toyosu and Odaiba
The Gundam Base Tokyo: the official Gunpla store
On floor 7 of the DiverCity mall is the official Gunpla complex: thousands of model kits from every generation, tables where you build on th
Vintage · Tokyo, West
Shimokitazawa: Flamingo and New York Joe
Secondhand clothing shops a short walk from one another: Flamingo (mostly from the US and Europe, and the company runs four more shops in th
Shopping · Tokyo, Shinjuku
Isetan's food basement (depachika)
The food floor (B1) of the Isetan department store, open 10:00 to 20:00: fresh market, prepared dishes and bento, grocery and changing sales
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