Components on sale at Radio Store in Tokyo 's Akihabara on November 30, 2013. For stores like Fukei Electrical, the closure is not the end on business.

Explore the backstreets of Akihabara, Tokyo at night before it changes. Akihabara is renowned as one of Japan's top districts for gaming, anime, and entertainment.

Walking the streets of Tokyo, Japan in February 2020. I show the areas of Akihabara, Asakusa, and Shibuya. Akihabara is known ...

TOKYO — Akihabara, Tokyo’s historic electronics district, has morphed into a geek paradise filled with videogames, pop-culture collectibles and other nerd attractions. Originally home to a ...

Welcome to Akihabara, centre of Tokyo's otaku (geek) culture, a bewildering maze of video game arcades, manga stores and maid cafes. On paper, maid cafes sound seedy and awkward.

A highlight of Akihabara is the Tokyo Anime Center (4-14-1 Soto-Kanda, Chiyoda-ku), which promotes the latest happenings in the ever-expanding world of anime.

In truth, Akihabara is a lot of different things, but today it's best known as the place the geeks go. IGN takes a tour through this "legendary" district, complete with over 100 photos.

TOKYO — Sundays in Akihabara just won’t be the same, following word that the days of the "pedestrian paradise" are over. Tokyo’s Chiyoda ward, which encompasses otaku mecca Akihabara, issued ...

Akihabara, a neighborhood in eastern Tokyo best known as a gadget mecca, has become the epicenter of geek pop culture, where otaku (geeks) shop for Japanese animation paraphernalia and frequent ...

"The suspect told police that he came to Akihabara to kill people," Jiro Akaogi, a spokesman for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, told The Associated Press. "He said he was tired of life.

A highlight of Akihabara is the Tokyo Anime Center (4-14-1 Soto-Kanda, Chiyoda-ku), which promotes the latest happenings in the ever-expanding world of anime.