Akihabara
5 placesAkihabara Gachapon Kaikan
秋葉原ガチャポン会館Around 500 capsule-toy machines line the walls of this narrow shop, from floor to the ceiling, dispensing miniature sush…
Akihabara Electric Town
秋葉原電気街Akihabara started as a postwar black market for radio parts and grew, floor by floor, into the capital of Japanese pop c…
Kanda Myojin Shrine
神田明神A five-minute walk uphill from the electronics shops, Kanda Myojin has guarded the merchants of Edo since 1616, and it a…
Mandarake Complex
まんだらけコンプレックスEight black floors of second-hand manga, toys, animation cels, retro consoles and doujinshi, run by the chain that inven…
Akihabara Radio Kaikan
秋葉原ラジオ会館The Radio Kaikan opened in 1950 as a market for radio tubes and parts, and gave Akihabara its reputation for electronics…
Ikebukuro
3 placesAnimate Ikebukuro Flagship
アニメイト池袋本店The largest anime goods shop in the world, rebuilt and expanded in 2023 into a nine-storey tower with a theatre, event h…
Otome Road
乙女ロードThe "maiden road" is a 200-metre strip facing Sunshine City where Japan's fan culture flips its gender: shops here sell…
Sunshine City
サンシャインシティA 1978 city within the city, built on the site of a demolished prison, with a 240-metre tower that was once the tallest…
Odaiba
1 placesKichijoji
1 placesNakano
2 placesMandarake Nakano
まんだらけ中野店Mandarake is Japan's largest dealer in secondhand manga and anime goods, and its original Nakano store is not one shop b…
Nakano Broadway
中野ブロードウェイNakano Broadway is a 1966 shopping complex with apartments on top that became, almost by accident, the world's largest c…