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Welcome to the New Discovery of Akihabara Website!
Akihabara is world-famous Electric Town among both Japanese and foreign travellers as the place to go shopping at hundreds of electric stores selling home electric products and digital appliances. Also, there are many duty-free shops where you can buy overseas standard products.
Recently, Akihabara has gained widespread recognition as the center of Japanese pop culture such as manga, anime and cosplay.
Moreover, Akihabara Advanced Knowledge Field (4th floor of the UDX building, Akihabara Cross Field) links the ongoing life and industry with cutting edge technologies and know-how in the state-of-the-art showrooms that create a neo-futuristic lifestyle.
Join the tour, we will take you to the deep Akihabara world. |
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Free tour ''New Discovery of Akihabara'' , will
take you to the most exciting places in Akihabara such as, pop
culture related places ( Kotobukiya ,Tokyo Anime Center ) ,
the Electric Town and duty free shops. 
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Period : Tours
operating on June 21
(Sat) & July 19 (Sat)
The tour schedule from Aug will be announced on this page
in July. Please wait for a while!
Tour guide language : English
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| Meeting place: |
Meeting place :
Hobby Shop Kotobukiya,1st floor of Radio Kaikan
(30 seconds from the JR Akihabara Electric Town Exit )
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| Meeting time: |
Meeting time
: 0:50PM
Departure time: 1:00 PM
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| Tour course: |
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Radio Kaikan
The holy place for anime and manga lovers. The building
is full of the latest pop culture items, and Kotobukiya
located on the 1st floor, has a large variety of figures,
as well as Ghibli characters. |
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Electric Town / Shopping District
The Electric Town Exit is the most concentrated
area of duty free shops in Akihabara. (Akky, Ishimaru,
Eisan, Onoden, Takarada Musen, Yamamoto Musen, Laox)
There is also a 100yen shop on the B1 of the Takarada
Musen building.
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Tsukumo Robot Kingdom
Cross the Chuo Street and walk through Radio Department
where exists a lot of parts shops still having an old
atmosphere of the town. Visit Tsukumo Robot Kingdom, and
enjoy watching the robot operation symbolizing cutting
edge technology of Akihabara |
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Overseas model products
At a duty free shop, instruction given on the difference
of overseas and domestic models. (warranty, manuals, functions
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Visit Yodobashi Camera Multi-Media
Akiba.
It is the biggest commercial facility in Akihabara, and
also, the largest mass retailer of home appliances in
Japan. |
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Tokyo Anime Center at UDX building
The tour continues to the UDX building of Akihabara Cross
Field, the new landmark of the town, symbol of high-tech
and pop culture. Tokyo Food Theater 5+1 is a new style
restaurant, equipped with digital recipes. Finally the
tour arrives at Tokyo Anime Center with the original souvenirs
you can find nowhere else but here. |
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Radio Kaikan (disband)
Participants are asked to fill out a questionnaire. The
tour returns to Radio Kaikan and disbands. ( Receive gift
at the end of the tour.) |
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*In case of change
in meeting time/place/etc. for tour in June & July,
changes will be announced on this page, and also to
the tour applicants via e-mail.
The tour takes approximately 2 hours.
*Let us remind you that you may be interviewed by Japanese
TV or newspapers due to strong popularity of the tour.
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