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Anonymous07/27/26, 06:43No.2899163
How much of the "old" Akihabara still exists? I've never visited Japan before but I've wanted to mainly for their retro and vintage technology. From a few friends who've been I've heard there is much less of those shops nowadays.
Is it still worth a trip if that's my main interest in visiting?.
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Anon07/27/26, 06:46No.2899164
Most of it's gone, super potato and some doujin shops are around, some of the electronic part stores are there. COVID shut down a lot of the niche shops and chinese/gacha sloppa stores have shoveled in. It's worth still if you never been, just realize 90% of the anime stores are cookie cutter copies.Nakano has more older things and same with Ikebukoro, ironically osaka's DenDen town has more the feel of precovid akihabara than aki does today.
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Anon07/27/26, 07:24No.2899169
>I've never visited Japan before but I've wanted to mainly for their retro and vintage technology. From a few friends who've been I've heard there is much less of those shops nowadays.
you can get everything good from a random hardoff in the sticks. akihabara is a meme
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Anon07/27/26, 08:13No.2899178
It's fat old tourists now. It's really just strange walking around there and seeing 70 year old obese Italians and Americans walking around and looking confused like they just got off a cruise ship and have no clue where they are. Most people in Akihabara just seem to be there to check off another tourist site. Almost none have interest in weeb stuff, and the shops have changed to reflect that.
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Anon07/27/26, 09:03No.2899182
go to mikado arcades in takadanobaba and in ikebukuro for some vintage fighting games and treasure bullethell shooters
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Anon07/27/26, 09:21No.2899184
god reminds me how I hate myself for pushing my dream Japan vacation 10y+ away
always wanted to go since high school
always told myself I save money to make a proper trip someday
always though I needed to learn better Japanesenow I have the money
and the trip is booked for spring 2027
and it's the dream trip I always wanted, almost 7 weeks cross country
but
I will also have a ~6month year old kid with me, we'll see how that goes...
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Anon07/27/26, 12:08No.2899202
There's a few things in Nakano Broadway, not just watches
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Anon07/30/26, 02:55No.2900022
Akihabara in 1986, back when it was purely an electronics district.
Then it evolved from a PC town to an anime town to an adult entertainment district.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqutCr7SxEM&list=PLIqpaTfilyKpHWAgQ2CQlr2ToeH4bhWko&index=1
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Anon07/30/26, 03:04No.2900026
I don't want to go to Japan right now because the niggers of my country are all there right now shitting it up (Australia)
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Anon07/30/26, 03:21No.2900030
If you have never been, you should still go and visit. But you will be disappointed if you are looking for that old 1980s Akihabara electric town vibe. Like another anons have stated that has since moved to other areas of Tokyo.
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Anon07/30/26, 07:11No.2900058
Akiba died when they removed the basketball court
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Anon07/30/26, 10:13No.2900062
Having recently been there for sake of a less knowing friend, very little. There was one bastion of radio/camera/electronics stores inside "Akihabara Radio Center", an old building with exposed concrete structure we wandered into from a side alley, located directly under the west track of the JR station. Aside from it we only came across one other cable-and-parts store that wasn't Best Buy-tier, like three or four stories up one of the mid-rise malls otherwise overflowing with FoTM anime/manga/gacha.