Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Akihabara: Otaku Paradise

Since most of the toys I collect are Japanese toys, the initial purpose of coming to Japan was actually to do a massive toy shopping spree and then maybe do a little bit of sightseeing around Tokyo. That is why our hotel is only a short distance from Akihabara, the *Otaku Paradise.

(*otaku is a term used for people who are fans of anime and manga: Japanese comics and are avid collectors of toys, figures, cards, etc...)

 As ideal as that sounds to a toy collector like myself, I am actually really beyond happy that we got to do more sightseeing and traveling around Japan than just staying around Tokyo. As
our vacation days dwindled, we knew it was time to  make a final trip to Akihabara and get the toys and figures we had been eyeing on our initial jaunt day a few days back.  So on the morning before we headed out for Harajuku, we went to say goodbye to Akibahara and good bye to our money...

 Each floor of this building is a store that sold mostly anime figures. Same figures are priced differently by each stores so we had to go through several of them and compare prices before buying them. One can easily spend an entire day or week in this building gawking at the massive collection of figures, toys and dolls. 

  
 
I had died and gone to dolly heaven....




This was taken on a different day on one of our several trips to Akihabara of Thad posing right next to Evangelion Ayanami Rei.


I actually have a Blythe doll version of her!



No...we didn't buy the entire store.


 This is all we got... ^___^ 


A quick pose outside a maid cafe...


That concludes our Akibahara shopping spree. There were still so many stuff we wanted to get but logic (where the heck are we going to put all of them) dissuaded us. We're good with what we've got.
I'm glad we don't have some sort of Akibahara around here. 
It's paradise for otaku but hell on our bank accounts. Still, we're broke but happy. ^_^

Till next time, holly up!






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