I am planning to visit Japan this year and will be in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka. I am planning to doing some game shopping, visiting arcades, and other video game related tourism. Does anyone have recommendations on the following:
- Good arcades or used game stores in Tokyo
- Must visit video game related places in Japan
Thanks for any suggestions
So I haven't been there yet but Akihabara is considered to be the mecca of video game shopping in Japan.
So according to this site Japan is still dealing with Covid-19.
https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e3003.htmlSuper Potato is in this district and it has all sort of retro games and consoles like Adrock described.
This person went to a Nintendo Hotel. Username on YT is TDR Explorer.
This is actually Nintendo's original headquarters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar3NcJMQ2wcThis is a video about the travel restrictions being lifted in Japan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrgRxl7ypzkThis person also has a website and on there, is an article on travel restrictions.
https://tdrexplorer.com/japans-borders-reopening-visa-free-travel-for-tourists-in-october/I don't know if you know any different languages but if not then there are some cool language apps like uLanguage(For Chrome/Android) or Memrise(iPhone/IOS).
I use uLanguage since I am starting to learn Thai and Spanish recently and if you have Android/ Chrome it is the top tier language app for Android.
I don't know how accurate the show is to actual Japan but for arcades the show High School Girl is a good watch and you may see some similarities.
I do eventually want to go to Japan in the way future so if I find anything else of note I will share in this thread for you M.K. Ultra and others like myself that want to go there in the future.