Akihabara

{ May 23, 2010 @ 12:43 pm } · { Assignments, Culture }

Where is the one place that you go to in Tokyo when you need something electronic: Akihabara. Akihabara is a section of Tokyo that is jam packed full of computer stores, hardware and software. A typical shop in Akihabara will consist of several floors. As I mentioned in an earlier blog post Japan goes up and not out. Each floor of said shop will have specific products on that floor. This is not specific to Akihabara, this is common throughout Japan. An example of how the floors are distributed would be something like: 1st floor – DS/PSP, 2nd floor Xbox/PS3/Wii, 3rd Floor – PS2/DVDs, 4th floor – CDs/DVDs. Some stores have less floors than others and the way in which the stores are setup varies greatly. A larger name store with lots of space is setup much more organized than a store that has less floor space per level but more levels. So the bottom line is that if you need something related to a computer and you’re in Tokyo, go to Akihabara.