akihabara
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Short update: Yesterday I woke up gloriously late. Took a cab to Super Potato Akihabara, a retro video game store about 7 miles from Shibuya City. The store has three stories dedicated to games from older Japanese consoles.
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Spent the rest of my time just wandering around, getting some exercise and dropping into interesting-looking stores.
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In the evening, Jon Wilson and I walked around Kabukicho looking for air-conditioned bars to have a drink. Despite all the warnings from locals and travel blogs, this is not a dangerous area. It's well-lit and packed with people. The bottakuri dudes – barkers, trying to get you to come to a second location with the promise of cheap drinks and oThEr wOrLdly pLeAsUrEs – are easy to say "no" to, they are polite and back off quickly. Good times.
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Next post: sushi and jazz