Japan Visit 2010

After our visit to Ueno we stopped by Akihabara (aka Electric Town).  Electric Town is Tokyo’s mecca for gadget freaks like me.  There are shops devoted entirely to every type of gadget you can imagine from cables to mobile phones.   As it was Saturday the place was absolutely packed but that just added to manic atmosphere of Akihabara. 

Whilst perusing the shops we stopped by a video arcade and I played some video games.  However, the most amazing thing in the video arcade was the photo booths were young girls dress up and get their photos taken.  They dress up as Anime characters and the booths let them decorate their photos with little bits of clip art.  Personally I’ve never seen anything crazier but they seemed to enjoy it!

Oh nearly forgot, whilst in Akihabara we got some lunch – a doner kebab!  I know, you can take the boy out of Larkhall but you cannae take Larkhall out the boy!

Tomorrow we’re heading for Osaka on the bullet train so we might not post until Monday at which point we'll be 1/3 the way through our Japanese adventure!