Akihabara (Page 10)
Japan’s largest anime megashop to open new branch in Akihabara specifically for women
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Casey Baseel
Jun 22, 2016
Naked man strolls up to Akihabara Station in Tokyo to buy a train ticket 【Photos】
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Casey Baseel
Jun 20, 2016
Good thing he had a backpack, because where else was he going to stick his change?
Police break up huge crowd clogging Tokyo sidewalk outside adult virtual reality exhibition
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Casey Baseel
Jun 14, 2016
Simulated sex demonstration in Akihabara definitely needed a bigger venue.
- Games & Tech, Japan
- (Akihabara • crazy • virtual reality • VR • weird)
Meeting at Hogwarts? Tokyo rental conference room is like a page from Harry Potter’s adventures
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Casey Baseel
Jun 3, 2016
Not a fan of the boy wizard? Maybe you’d prefer to hold your meeting in the Wonderland room instead.
- Culture, Japan, Lifestyle
- (Akihabara • Alice in Wonderland • business • cool • Harry Potter • rental offices • Tokyo)
The otaku haven’s first women-only capsule hotel will celebrate its opening with an anime collaboration.
Akihabara Shrine seeks shrine maiden to perform memorial services for “deceased” anime figures
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KK Miller
Mar 23, 2016
- Japan
- (action figure • Akihabara • jobs • otaku • Part-time • shrine maiden • shrines)
Tokyo cafe’s sakura ice cream has actual flowers mixed in for the ultimate cherry blossom dessert
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Casey Baseel
Mar 22, 2016
Whether you’re a diehard anime fan or couldn’t care less about otaku culture, you owe it to yourself to try this new treat in Akihabara.
- Food & Drink, Japan
- (Akihabara • cafes • cherry blossoms • ice cream • restaurants • sakura • sweets • taste test • Tokyo)
Hair salon just for otaku would turn getting a haircut into a mini anime convention experience
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Casey Baseel
Mar 15, 2016
- Anime & Manga, Japan
- (Akihabara • anime • fashion • hair • hair salon • Tokyo)
Carl’s Jr. Japan also has a breakfast menu, so of course we had to try it too【Taste Test】
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KK Miller
Mar 10, 2016
Always hungry for more, we head back to the newly opened Carl’s Jr. in Tokyo to try the fast-food outlet’s morning menu.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • breakfast • Carl's Jr. • fast food • hamburgers • taste test)
First Carl’s Jr. opens in Tokyo’s Akihabara district, massive line-up ensues
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Master Blaster
Mar 5, 2016
Does Carl’s Jr. have what it takes to survive the grand-opening frenzy that every American fast food chain enjoys in Japan? We wait in line four hours to find out.
- Food & Drink, Japan, USA
- (Akihabara • burgers • Carl's Jr. • fast food • grand opening)
Tokyo specialized school’s new department will teach you to be an Akihabara professional
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Casey Baseel
Feb 24, 2016
Spooky cosplayer dressed as Japanese urban legend ghost plays pranks on passersby in Akihabara
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Audrey Akcasu
Feb 16, 2016
Akihabara may be known as a mecca for cosplayers, but it’s not every day that you run into the horrific “Slit-Mouthed Woman” on the street!
- Japan
- (Akihabara • kuchisake-onna • prank • scary • Super Sonico • video)
AKB48 and Nogizaka46 songs to be played as subway train departure melodies in Tokyo
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Oona McGee
Jan 21, 2016
You can probably tell which stations they’ll be played at, but can you guess which songs have been chosen?
Upskirt umbrellas are now a thing in Japan
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Oona McGee
Jan 13, 2016
We thought we’d seen everything from Japan, but this is one thing we never saw coming.
【2016 Lucky Bag Roundup】We buy a 3,000-yen, 5-kilo Lucky Bag of junk in Akihabara
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Master Blaster
Jan 4, 2016
Mr. Sato visits the Iwayuru Junk Shop in Tokyo’s Akihabara district in search of a true lucky bag: one where you don’t know what you’ll get inside.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • fukubukuro • junk • Lucky Bags • shopping)
We check out the awesome Tokyo restaurant sandwiched between two active train tracks
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Krista Rogers
Nov 16, 2015
Earlier this year, we shared news about a restaurant in Tokyo where you can dine between the train tracks of the busy Chuo Line. One of our Japanese-language reporters finally got the chance to visit the location for himself, and we’d like to share his thoughts about getting up close and personal with some trains!
Shangrila, a maid cafe staffed exclusively by cute “plump” girls, opens in Akihabara【Pics】
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Scott Wilson
Nov 12, 2015
We’ve seen all kinds of maid cafes all over Japan, from ones that specialize in zombie girls to ones where the girls seductively make rice balls right in front of you. But one type of maid cafe that has been sorely lacking is one dedicated to girls with a fuller figure, the kind of girls known in Japan by the playful monicker of marshmallow girls.
But all that changes now! Shangrila is a maid cafe that recently opened in Akihabara, and it will be staffed completely by more well-rounded young women. What kind of stuff does a cafe like this have in store for its customers? Read on to find out!
- Japan
- (Akihabara • body image • cute girls • fat • maid cafe • marshmallow girls)
There are many beautiful videos of Japan floating around on YouTube, but there’s one special channel that’s aiming to stand head and shoulders above the rest. Called TokyoStreetView – Japan The Beautiful, this is an ongoing project that’s working towards compiling a library of high definition 4K videos, showcasing unique aspects of Japanese culture and featuring beautiful locations all around the country.
We take a look at four of their stunning videos, filmed within the nation’s capital, at Akihabara and the famous Senso-ji temple in Asakusa, and in its more picturesque regional areas, at Nikko and Ise Grand Shrine in Mie Prefecture. The superb, high quality of the images is so remarkable, you’ll feel as if you’re seeing the country not through a lens but through your very own eyes!
Otaku speed-dating party lets participants chat online before event, review each other during it
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Casey Baseel
Oct 21, 2015
Even as the world of otaku becomes an increasingly co-ed one, many of Japan’s obsessive fans of anime, video games, and other forms of pop culture struggle in finding a romantic partner. That’s where Aeullura, a matchmaking company specializing in konkatsu (marriage-minded dating) events for otaku, comes in.
But conventional speed-dating can be intimidating for even ordinarily outgoing individuals, let alone otaku who might very well spend more of their free time watching fictional characters than interacting with other people. Add in the pressure of a ticking clock, and some might not feel confident in their ability to walk up to an attractive stranger, make a good impression, and then find out more about them.
That’s why Aeullura is flipping that sequence of events for its upcoming otaku matchmaking party by giving the speed daters access to a wealth of information about one another, and even letting them communicate online, before putting them all in the same room together.
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