Tokyo for a few days......

[swisstoni]

I will be in Tokyo for a few days from this weekend before moving onto Osaka and Hiroshima. Could anyone please recommend any arcades worth visiting in the Akihabara area populated with retro games in Astro Ciry/Blast City candy cabs. Also I plan on visiting Super Potato but heard its on the expensive side, can anyone recommend any other retro shops that maybe worth a visit. Many thanks.

[Hellfromabove]

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[Shinjuku] Club Sega
[Shinjuku] JoyBox
[Shinjuku] Taito Station Game World
[Shinjuku] Sportsland
[Shinjuku] Game Spot 21
[Shinjuku] Estadio Paseo
[Shinjuku] Taito Station East Shinjuku
[Shinjuku] Playland Carnival
[Shinjuku] Adores Milano
[Shinjuku] Adores Kabukicho
[Shinjuku] Game Espace
[Okubo] Alpha Station
[Akihabara] Club Sega
[Akihabara] Taito HEY
[Akihabara] Taito Station
[Akihabara] Gigo
[Akihabara] Tokyo Lesiure Land
[Akihabara] Try Amusement Tower
[Akihabara] FunFun
[Akihabara] Sega Akihabara
[Akihabara] Natsuge
[Akihabara] Club Sega Shinkan
[Akihabara] Leisure Land 2
[Akihabara] Super Potato
[Nakano] Namco Nakano
[Nakano] Adores
[Nakano] Casino Royal
[Nakano] TRF
[Nakano] Game Golden Nakano
[Nakano] Game Monaco
[Ikebukuro] Adores Sunshine
[Ikebukuro] Gigo
[Ikebukuro] DingDong
[Ikebukuro] St.Tropez
[Ikebukuro] Ramble Plaza
[Ikebukuro] Safari
[Ikebukuro] Playland Las Vegas
[Ikebukuro] Taito Station Ikebukuro Rosa
[Ikebukuro] Adores East
[Ikebukuro] Adores DEN
[Ikebukuro] Adores West
[Ikebukuro] Game Fuji
[Shibuya] NamcoLand
[Shibuya] Shibuya Kaikan Monaco
[Shibuya] Taito Station
[Shibuya] Hightech Land Sega
[Shibuya] Club Sega Shibuya
[Shibuya] Adores Shibuya
[Shibuya] FunFun La Seine
[Takadanobaba] Taito Station BIGBOX
[Takadanobaba] Mikado
[Takadanobaba] Hakuchou Game Plaza
[Takadanobaba] Taito Station Takadanobaba
[Nishi Nippori] Game Spot Versus
[Sugamo] Play City Carrot
[Shimokitazawa] Game Em Em Land
[Shimokitazawa] Game Golden
[Shimokitazawa] Las Vegas

[RMRM]

If you're looking for CRT fun, just visit Hey and Try and you will be happy

[nem]

Also I plan on visiting Super Potato but heard its on the expensive side, can anyone recommend any other retro shops that maybe worth a visit.

I think the more reasonable priced shops can be found in Den Den Town these days. Might as well skip that part in Tokyo and concentrate on the arcades (which aren't as good in Osaka).

[swisstoni]

Cheers guys will check those out

[Sphere]

I will be in Tokyo for a few days from this weekend before moving onto Osaka and Hiroshima. Could anyone please recommend any arcades worth visiting in the Akihabara area populated with retro games in Astro Ciry/Blast City candy cabs. Also I plan on visiting Super Potato but heard its on the expensive side, can anyone recommend any other retro shops that maybe worth a visit. Many thanks.

Hey Swisstoni,

Check out the arcade map here: http://www.arcadeuniverse.net/arcade-map/

Japan has plenty of options on the map in that area. There links to the arcade websites as well to check this site and/or their location and you can check if they still exist or not. Hope this helps finding your way around.

Have fun!

[swisstoni]

Thanks again for the advice guys its much appreciated, loving Tokyo im here on holiday with the wife its a real culture shock at first but loving every minute.I managed to pop into Taito Hey for an hour fantastic could of stayed theyre all day impressed to find they had a Chase HQ cockpit and a 3 screen Ninja Warriors cab aswell, also went to Super Potato great shop but reslly high prices, hopefully should be able to squeeze another Akihabara visit in so will see if I can visit Try aswell.

[mirkvid]

Sweet, have fun and post some pics when you get back!

[orio1]

There is a sweet retro game center at the start of the shopping strip near the peace memorial in Hiroshima. Also awesome okonomiyaki diagonally across from there too.

Den Den Town I found to be pretty rad too...

[jugemscloud]

go to mikado arcade - get of the train at takadanobaba station theres and osamu tezuka (astro boy, jungle emperor leo) mural at the exit go left and left again follow the train tracks (should be directly on your left) and its down the street the winds up to the right about 2-3 mins walk max

as was said denden in osaka is much better than akihabara in tokyo the potato there was much better stocked when i was there last year. mandrake has crazy stock of just about everything and theres the nakano broadway further out if you go to mikado its not too far from that on the train much better than akihabara (its a shopping mall with lots of small independent retailers and the big mandrake shop in aki split into individual units for specific things (got my copy of recca there and the only place i seen it in all the shops i went to in japan) when you leave nakano station you should be in a small square go directly across to the covered shopping arcade, walk through this its a straight line at the end is broadway

if you want a late night drink in tokyo theres a place i found called one drop cafe its open until about 2am try the house sake its pineapple flavour and one of the best i had when i was there also

if i could recommend anything to do in the whole of japan it would be go to kanazawa, had the best food there from a place right next to the modern art museum its in the lonely planet guide book, i got told they were full twice but insisted on waiting the second time and glad i did (they have menus in english but try to downplay that if you go to the door and its busy, just say you are happy to wait)

also if you're bargain hunting go into every book off/hard off you see found some insane things in those places and lots of famicom stuff i didn't see even in the big stores like potato and mandrake and the prices were 1/3-1/2 or what those places were asking

[bloodhokuto]

Hope you had a great time.

Really itching to go again this year, but everything seems to be conspiring against me at the moment.