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Akihabara & Nakano Shopping Day
Modern Akihabara in the morning, vintage Nakano in the afternoon. New releases and twenty-year-old rarities in one day.
Akihabara and Nakano Broadway cover opposite ends of the same hobby. Akihabara is where current product lives: new BEYBLADE X waves, sealed cards, fresh figures. Nakano is where discontinued product goes to be catalogued, graded and resold. Doing both in one day, in that order, gives you a complete picture of the Japanese hobby market — and Nakano shops do not open until midday anyway, so the order is forced and convenient.
Route
5 stops
- 1 hr 15 min
Yodobashi Camera Multimedia Akiba
Akihabara Station · 1 min walk
Do all your tax-free buying here in one transaction.
Walk south through Akihabara6min
- 45 min
Super Potato Akihabara
Akihabara Station · 5 min walk
Check whether your console plays Japanese cartridges before buying.
Walk north on Chuo-dori5min
- 1 hr
Mandarake Complex Akihabara
Akihabara Station · 6 min walk
Opens at noon, so this ordering is deliberate.
Walk five minutes5min
- 30 min
Akihabara Gachapon Kaikan
Akihabara Station · 7 min walk
Bring 100-yen coins.
JR Chuo line from Akihabara to Nakano20min
- 2 hr
Nakano Broadway
Nakano Station · 5 min walk
Four floors of Mandarake. Give it more time than you think you need.
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