Akihabara
For-foreigners stamp rally begins in Akihabara, gives prizes for walking the otaku neighborhood
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Casey Baseel
Jul 19, 2024 - Tweet
- Japan
- (Akihabara • anime • COK • foreigners in Japan • otaku • stamp rallies • stamp rally • tourism • travel • video games)
Gigantic eight-floor anime figure shop skyscraper opening in Tokyo’s Akihabara this month
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Casey Baseel
Jul 12, 2024
- Japan
- (Akihabara • anime • awesome • Figure Tower • figures • otaku • Tokyo • video games)
Star Kebab’s kebab sushi roll in Akihabara isn’t on the menu anymore but don’t let that stop you
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Krista Rogers
Jun 21, 2024
When a restaurant stops selling your favorite menu item, sometimes you have to roll matters into your own hands.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • COK • Ikuna Kamezawa • kebab • kebab norimaki • SNJO • Star Kebab • Tokyo)
Low price, free booze and curry, late check-out, and great location — Akihabara capsule hotel has it all
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Casey Baseel
Jun 16, 2024
Anshin Oyado is just a two-minute walk from Akihabara Station and has everything we need to get comfortable.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • all you can drink • Anshin Oyado • capsule hotels • COK • curry • curry rice • hotels • Pasela Resorts • SNJO • Tokyo travel • tourism • travel)
Restaurant offers free noodle refills, with a quick lesson in Japanese so you can order like a local.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • COK • food • Japanese • Japanese food • Japanese language • Japanese restaurants • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • review • SNJO • Tokyo • tonkotsu ramen • tourists)
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- (Akihabara • chicken • COK • food • fried chicken • Kanda • karaage • Pokemon • restaurants • review • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo)
Foreign shoppers in Akihabara tip us off to an awesome souvenir idea: DIY Paper Theater kit【Pics】
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Casey Baseel
May 8, 2024
A cool, unique, and easy-to-pack gift for fans of Japanese pop culture (including yourself).
Is the absolute closest conveyor belt sushi to Akihabara Station any good? Let’s find out!
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SoraNews24
May 7, 2024
- Japan
- (Akihabara • best conveyor belt sushi • COK • food • kaiten sushi • Kaitenzushi • restaurants • revolving sushi • SNJO • sushi)
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.
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