Akihabara
A new meaty dawn for Akihabara as neighborhood’s best steak/hamburger steak restaurant reopens
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Casey Baseel
Apr 12, 2024
- Japan
- (Akihabara • beef • COK • food • hamburger steak • Mansei • meat • Niku no Mansei • restaurants • SNJO • steak)
New famous food of Akihabara! Reiwa garlic chive ramen is delicious two times per meal
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SoraNews24
Mar 30, 2024
- Japan
- (Akihabara • COK • food • garlic chives • nira • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • SNJO)
Akihabara’s awesome pako ramen restaurant is closing, but there’s still time for one last bowl
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Casey Baseel
Mar 25, 2024
- Japan
- (Akihabara • card games • COK • collectible cards • collectible trading card games • crime • robbery • theft • trading cards • Yu-Gi-Oh!)
Akihabara’s iconic meat restaurant skyscraper is closing down after 33 years of great meals
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Casey Baseel
Feb 22, 2024
- Japan
- (Akihabara • beef • food • Mansei • Niku no Mansei • restaurants)
Akihabara Radio Kaikan’s gacha capsule toy lucky bag is an otaku delight【Photos】
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Oona McGee
Jan 22, 2024
- Japan
- (Akihabara • anime • capsule toys • COK • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2024 • gachapon • Jujutsu Kaisen • Lucky Bag Roundup 2024 • Lucky Bags • manga • otaku • Radio Kaikan • SNJO)
Tokyo’s 400-year-old Shinto shrine welcomes Roombas to help with annual susuosame ceremony【Video】
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Casey Baseel
Dec 14, 2023
Akihabara-adjacent Kanda Shrine is always ready to try new things while keeping the old ones too.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • cool • cute • Kanda • Kanda Myojin • kanda shrine • robots • Roomba • shrines • technology • video • weird)
Maid street in Akihabara gets a new vending machine that’s sweeter than usual
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Oona McGee
Oct 5, 2023
- Japan
- (Akihabara • coffee • COK • cool • drinks • Egawa Tasuku • Japanese vending machines • maid cafes • maids • Max Coffee • new • SNJO • taste test • vending machine • vending machines)
Ramen restaurant in Akihabara serves two different types of noodles in one bowl
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Oona McGee
Sep 27, 2023
- Japan
- (Akihabara • Cho Gotteri Men Gottsu • COK • food • Gottsu • Japanese food • Kanda • Noodles • P.K. Sanjun • ramen • ramen restaurants • ratsukemen • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • tasty • tsukemen)
This dorayaki spot is one of the best sweets shop in Tokyo that people don’t know about yet
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Casey Baseel
Jun 30, 2023
Hidden under the tracks near Akihabara is one of our new favorite places to grab sweets on the street.
Final Fantasy XVI cafe menu brings Eikon drinks, Torgal parfait to Tokyo’s Square Enix Cafe【Pics】
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Casey Baseel
Jun 28, 2023
- Japan
- (Akihabara • cafes • drinks • Final Fantasy • Final Fantasy XVI • food • restaurants • Square Enix • sweets • themed cafes • themed restaurants • video games)
Animate Akihabara dispels misunderstanding that it will stop selling manga for adult men
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Casey Baseel
Jun 8, 2023
Gigantic anime shop in Tokyo’s otaku district posted notice saying that it had ceased seinen sales.
OxiClean officially sends detergent supply to Tokyo card shop struggling with sweaty, smelly otaku
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Casey Baseel
May 31, 2023
- Japan
- (Akihabara • card games • cards • clever • collectible card games • hygiene • otaku • OxiClean • smell • trading cards)
Whether you’re looking for the hustle and bustle or peace and quiet, this list has you covered.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • beautiful • COK • Golden Gai • Imperial Palace • Kabukicho • Kichijoji • Nakano • observation floors • parks • Roppongi Hills • shinjuku • SNJO • Sumida River • Tocho • Tokyo • Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building • Tokyo Tower • travel)
Tokyo Pokémon card shop blocks scalpers by limiting sales to kids only for part of its inventory
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Casey Baseel
May 2, 2023
Hareruya 2 doesn’t think kids should have to hope for a miracle in order to find Pokémon cards.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • collectible card games • cool • Hareruya • Hareruya 2 • kids • Pokemon • Pokémon card game • pokemon cards • resellers • scalpers)
Akihabara arcades aren’t dead yet! New six-floor game center opens in Tokyo otaku quarter next month
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Casey Baseel
Feb 23, 2023
- Japan
- (Akihabara • Bandai • capsule toys • COK • crane games • gachapon • game centers • gashapon • Namco • video games)
Akihabara’s immigrant-founded kebab landmark is closing down for good after more than a decade
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Casey Baseel
Jan 24, 2023
- Japan
- (Akiba • Akihabara • closing • COK • food • kebab • restaurants • Star Kebab)
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