Akihabara has to be one of the coolest districts in Japan, especially if you love electronics, games, gadgets, movies and anime. Akihabara has hundreds of stores with several stories with various gaming consoles, games, movies, gadgets, electronics, and anime. As a person who never watched much anime I was more interested in the games and electronics. Many of the gaming stores were split up by floor based on system, this made it obvious which companies were popular in Japan, since Nintendo and Sony each got their own floor, while Microsoft’s Xbox 360 got a small section on a floor with other games. The Xbox 360 did better than the original Xbox in Japan, but Nintendo and Sony remain the powerhouses in Japan. Nintendo has used this power to force Akihabara stores to stop selling modding devices, but as Anthony and I saw these devices are still being sold at many stores. Modding devices such as these would only be available via specialty websites, but are sold along side DVD players and computers in these electronics shops. Akihabara is the electronics hub of Tokyo and is the place to look for all sorts of electronics.
