When I lived in Japan, Akihabara was a regular destination, as I had friends who worked in the SoftBank Shop and often enjoyed waiting for them to start their break by wandering around the surrounding alleys, looking at the stuff.
I would love to have a time machine and go back to early 80's, "Nintendo Game and Watch" Akihabara. I somehow feel like the bandwidth has just gotten too overwhelming, it felt like I was going to snow crash with every step past the flyer girls ..
But Tokyo is full of other great things to see and do as well. I've had some amazing times in the second hand synthesizer shops of Shinjuku and Shibura, and escaped moral wounding in Gas Panic, Roppongi too many times to count.
Akihabara is a curiosity, but Ginza and Daiba-park and Koenji are all neighborhoods with exciting things to explore too. Nerds looking for satisfaction in Akihabara are going to find it in the nondescript places too ..
The first season of The Naked Director (Netflix) gives a good glimpse of 1980s Bubble-era Tokyo with some great location and set design. The second season is set in the 1990s, and I've not yet watched it.
Softbank Shop, on the 6th or 7th floor, if its still there .. was a veritable oasis of amazingly well-maintained and available super rare synthesizer gear. If I was a wealthy man, that floor would be half-empty .. ;)
I would love to have a time machine and go back to early 80's, "Nintendo Game and Watch" Akihabara. I somehow feel like the bandwidth has just gotten too overwhelming, it felt like I was going to snow crash with every step past the flyer girls ..
But Tokyo is full of other great things to see and do as well. I've had some amazing times in the second hand synthesizer shops of Shinjuku and Shibura, and escaped moral wounding in Gas Panic, Roppongi too many times to count.
Akihabara is a curiosity, but Ginza and Daiba-park and Koenji are all neighborhoods with exciting things to explore too. Nerds looking for satisfaction in Akihabara are going to find it in the nondescript places too ..