Akihabara
Are 500-yen noodles at Akihabara Ramen Center a great find or cheap miss?
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Oona McGee
6 days ago - Tweet
- Japan
- (Akihabara • Akihabara Ramen Center • COK • food • miso ramen • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo • Tokyo restaurants)
Is China’s don’t-go-to-Japan warning affecting the lines at a popular Tokyo gyukatsu restaurant?
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Krista Rogers
Feb 4, 2026
We investigate whether now is a good time to grab some beef cutlets in a popular tourist area of Tokyo.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • beef cutlets • China travel advisory • China travel warning • COK • food • Gyukatsu 123 • Japan travel • P.K. Sanjun • restaurants • SNJO • society • Tokyo • tourism • travel)
Giant new nine-floor arcade opens in Tokyo, wants to welcome new and old games fans alike
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Casey Baseel
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Is it worth eating at Akihabara Ramen Center?
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Oona McGee
Oct 24, 2025
Tokyo noodle joint is open 24 hours a day, but it may or may not be what you’re looking for.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • Akihabara Ramen Center • COK • food • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo • Tokyo restaurants)
Game over as 33-year-old landmark arcade closes in Tokyo’s Akihabara district【Photos, video】
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Casey Baseel
Sep 2, 2025
The shutter and curtain come down on the first arcade Sega ever opened in Japan’s biggest gamer neighborhood.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • Arcades • GiGO • GiGO Akihabara Building 1 • Sega • video games)
New multi-floor arcade opens in Tokyo on same day Akihabara landmark announces closure
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Casey Baseel
Jul 17, 2025
We may have to say goodbye to Akihabara Building 1, but it’s also time to say hello to a brand-new GiGO arcade elsewhere in Tokyo.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • Arcades • COK • Fuchu • game centers • Genda • GiGO • Sega • video games)
Landmark Akihabara arcade, opened by Sega over 30 years ago, announces sudden closure
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Casey Baseel
Jul 16, 2025
- Japan
- (Akihabara • Arcades • COK • game centers • Genda • GiGO • Sega • video games)
Unusual vending machine in Akihabara sells drinks you won’t find anywhere else in Tokyo
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Oona McGee
May 6, 2025
- Japan
- (Akihabara • coffee • COK • drinks • Ehime • Japanese vending machines • juice • new • Pom Juice • SNJO • taste test • vending machine • vending machines)
Best breakfast in Akihabara? Might be the breakfast buffet at this “family restaurant”
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Casey Baseel
May 4, 2025
- Japan
- (Akihabara • all-you-can-eat • breakfast • buffet • COK • family restaurants • food • hotels • Jonathan's • restaurants • SNJO • tourism • travel)
Tokyo shrine hosts event for anime fans ready to let go and recycle character keychains, standees
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Casey Baseel
Apr 27, 2025
- Japan
- (acrylic • acrylic resin • Akihabara • anime • eco-friendly • ecology • Kanda • Kanda Myojin • kanda shrine • keychains • manga • otaku • recycling • shrines)
Foreigner-friendly maid cafe adds translation panels to Akihabara location
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Casey Baseel
Feb 21, 2025
Technology hopes to help visitors from overseas more thoroughly enjoy a unique aspect of Akiba culture.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • At-Home Cafe • COK • maid cafes • maids • restaurants • technology • tourism • translation • travel)
- Japan
- (Akihabara • cafes • COK • food • restaurants • Square Enix • Square Enix Cafe • Square Enix Cafe Tokyo • video games)
Will we roll in the riches or the dirt with Mulan Akiba’s 2025 capsule toy lucky bag?
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Krista Rogers
Jan 7, 2025
- Japan
- (Akihabara • capsule toys • COK • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2025 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2025 • gacha • gacha gacha • gachapon • lucky bag • lucky bag 2025 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2025 • Mulan • SNJO • Tokyo)
Animate Akihabara releases a lucky bag for the first time in years, and it’s amazing
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Oona McGee
Jan 4, 2025
- Japan
- (Akihabara • Animate • anime • COK • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2025 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2025 • love live • lucky bag • lucky bag 2025 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2025 • Lucky Bags • manga • new year • New Year's • New Year's 2025 • SNJO)
Akihabara curry restaurant declaring bankruptcy after 50 years in Tokyo’s otaku neighborhood
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Casey Baseel
Dec 30, 2024
- Japan
- (Akihabara • curry • curry rice • food • restaurants)
Nakano Broadway sells a fukubukuro lucky bag for foreigners, but is it a good deal or a scam?
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SoraNews24
Dec 21, 2024
We get an expert opinion on the worth of the anime and voclaoid figures in the Kawaii Lucky Bag.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • anime • COK • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2025 • Hatsune Miku • Kawaii • Lucky Bags • lucky bags 2025 • mange • Nakano • Nakano Broadway • Oshi no Ko • overlord • SNJO • Tokyo)
- Japan
- (Akihabara • COK • crazy • food • Jiro ramen • Jiro-kei • Jiro-style • karaoke • Noodles • Paro Ramen • Pasela • ramen • Ramen Paro • Ramn Jiro • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • weird)
Line of foreign tourists leads us to Akihabara’s meatiest fatty ramen【Taste test】
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Casey Baseel
Oct 19, 2024
For-foreigners stamp rally begins in Akihabara, gives prizes for walking the otaku neighborhood
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Casey Baseel
Jul 19, 2024
- Japan
- (Akihabara • anime • COK • foreigners in Japan • otaku • stamp rallies • stamp rally • tourism • travel • video games)
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