Akihabara, Japan, is famous for its streets filled with colorful animation ads and bustling shopping centers, hence its ...

Akihabara, Tokyo has transformed over the years. In its present form Akihabara emerged from the ruins of a devastated Tokyo after World War 2 when the entire district was burnt to the ground.

Accessible via Shinjuku Staton Technology, comics, anime and fandom of all sorts is celebrated in Akihabara. Its neighborhood streets look a lot like the rest of Tokyo's most popular neighborhoods ...

Jump into the fascinating universe of Akihabara, a Tokyo district that celebrates Japanese pop culture, from video games to ...

So there are a couple of ramen restaurants in Tokyo’s otaku district of Akihabara where you can regularly see long lines of foreign tourists waiting to get in. Several of them, like Kyushu Jangara in ...

Murilee Martin In fact, I visited some of the vintage-kit shops around Akihabara in search of Mad Police kits. Store employees were impressed that I was hip enough to seek out those kits ...

On June 8 exactly 15 years ago, seven people died and 10 others were injured when a truck rammed pedestrians in Tokyo’s Akihabara district and the driver jumped out and started stabbing people ...

but a variety of merchandise based on fictional characters.

California law on pricing has broad reachDecoding California's 'Honest Pricing Law' that requires full-price disclosures in quotes and ads. The 'authentic tourism' conundrumConsumers demand ...

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