If my parents had brough me to Akihabara when I was a little kid, they would’ve lost their life savings. Ever seen university, I have stopped my craze for anime and manga. This place has everything that an otaku can dream of buying – from figures to manga to cosplays to toys.

We knew from the information in our hostel that the day we went to Akihabara, there was going to be this event with a bunch of maids. This event was called Uchimizu – it is a summer tradition to “spread water on the ground to make it cool”.

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Here’s an album with all the maids from the Uchimizu event.

Bandai opened up a Gundam Cafe right outside the Akihabara station.

It’s a cool place to hang out, drink coffee and reminisce about classic Gundam episodes that we saw as a kid.

However, the food in this place is garbage (except for the fact that they make a Haro face on your coffee).

A few buildings that had a lot of anime related stuff in them – Labi and Yellow Submarine.

In fact, there were so many buildings, it was hard to keep track.

This is the typical entrance to electric town.

On weekdays, they hire maids to hand out flyers.

I thought this building was very cool. It looked like a storage box.

Kotobukiya had a bunch of the latest Anime stuff you can find. It’s also very pricey.

This is Choi Dori, it’s got a bunch more buildings. On Sundays, they closed off the whole street for pedestrians.

This is the Don Quijote (Donki) building in Akihabara. It’s like a discount/souvenir store. On the top floor, they have museum for the AKB48 – an all female pop band with 48 members (lol!)

Stuff they sold at Donki.

We saw more maids handing out flyers. This type of advertisement only happens on weekdays. They disappear on weekends.

Even KFC is using One Piece as advertisement. One Piece is possibly the biggest Anime in Japan history. One night, we were sleepless at the hostel. We decided to turn on the TV and there was actually a show that was like jeopardy – the catch was the questions were all related to One Piece and the guests were some of the biggest celebrities in Japan. They actually knows their anime.

Pachinko at Akiba.

Yellow Submarine is a popular place because it’s next to the subway. There are a bunch of life-size figures inside the building.

A studio outside of the Akiba subway.

The famous Akihabara Subway Station.

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