ElectriCity

Last night I went to Akihabara, the Electric City. The arcades are huge. 8 floors with different themes, like a Street Fighter floor, the Sega floor (with Virtua Fighter 4 Final Tuned), like this weird games that combine real actual cards in the interaction with the computer by placing them in a special surface. There were buildings full of Gundam figures, and other anime stuff.


A brief comment about the previous post. The guy with the Boriqua hat was Japanese. This is the most homogeneous big city I have ever seen, by far.


The most notable things here are always those that are a little bit familiar with a small twist. For example, the capsule hotels, the pornography everywhere, the weird parking buildings with lifts that move the cars around do not impress me that much. But, things like this sign in front of a Pachinko parlor that read:

You are shock!!

did. And this club that had a sign that read:

Jazz & Black Music - Soul Trane

The overwhelmingly popular porn in Akihabara was not very unexpected, but the Evangelion Girls in Pajamas Figurines Collect them All!- was.
And, I had a very hard time finding something to eat in Akihabara, as most places closed early, and had to settle for this burger place. Everything was normal, except that they put asparagus in the burger.