An iconic location in Tokyo is going away at the end of the month as the SEGA Arcade in Akihabara ... random cool music, and goes rogue in D&D. He also enjoys hundreds of other geeky things ...

Akihabara has long been known as one of the best places to buy retro video games ... I went to the district with two goals: to grab some cool new Pokémon cards for my collection and bolster ...

Here are the places we recommend for a perfect day out in Akihabara. Namco Akihabara has six floors of entertainment for gamers and anime lovers. The first two floors are packed with crane games ...

Even if it’s not your thing, it’s worth visiting this shop that makes everything else in Akihabara look downright mainstream. There are plenty of places to buy modern anime and video game toys ...

However, some of these can be found elsewhere and nowadays it’s pretty hard to find cool things to buy in Japan ... but the fact that there is Tokyo Akihabara area called Electronic Town ...

Why did the bottom fall out of electronics manufacturing in Japan? And how did Akihabara go from being a showcase for its electronics makers to becoming capital of "Cool Japan?" The very idea that ...

As the Internet became a thing and manufacturing largely moved out of Japan, Akihabara became just another place to snag gadgets, albeit one with a lot of cool stores. Then the situation changed ...

Sega Akihabara Arcade Building 4 was the big one on the corner with the very cool exposed escalators. The other notable arcades—like Sega Akihabara Arcade Building 1, the one you would see first ...

If you were let loose in Akihabara, Tokyo’s famous Electric Town district, would you go searching for a tech souvenir to take home? I’m assuming the answer would be yes, because that’s ...

Akihabara has changed a great deal in the last 25 years. Back in the early '90s, when Japanese electronics makers dominated the world and the bubble economy had yet to pop, every other store was ...