Recently I have become much more familiar with Tokyo’s electronic neighborhood Akihabara. A few months ago I would have problems finding the Star Kebab I liked so much (a small turkish shop for kebab based sandwiches), and I would have to run around the place three or four times whenever I wanted to find some used game or particular computer piece. But now I can orient myself much better around there.

This is probably because on the past week I have been to Akiba 3 or 4 times – each different guest from Hospitality Club of course wanted to go there, and since I can get there by bike, I would usually follow them and show them around. Then I went a few extra times when Anna and Bonnie were here – Bonnie wanted to hunt for junk shops to try and assemble new ideas for her design products, which I found really cool, and Anna had a broken notebook which took many visits to different shops before we could finally fix it.

Today I was there again, this time to buy this Wireless Headphone I had seen a few days ago for a very cheap price. This dodgy shop in a back street had this stall with 10 or 20 units, and I thought I could come the next day to pick one up. Turns out that if I see something really cheap in Akiba I should buy it right away, because when I went to check it today it was already gone. But while around, I found this cool model shop where they had a rather big section on Ghibli models – and they were pretty cool ones, large mechanical clocks with the characters of Hayao Miyazaki’s movies doing different things. The shop was in the underpass behind the Glass shop near the JR Denkigai entrance.

And then we get closer to the post-a-day goal :-P