Took a ride to Akihabara. It's the famous electronics district of Tokyo that spring up Post-WWII as an area where entrepreneurs began selling old radio parts to try to scratch out a living when Japan was bombed into a parking lot. Now, its electronics to the nth degree. Computers, laptops of every size, cell phones, accessories, rice cookers, wires, transistors, screens, electronic tools, lightbulbs, you name it its there. Rows and rows of cramped store fronts that expanded vertically rather than horizontally. Each one was lit up in neon blasting techno music. I bought a 7 dollar iPod touch case...exciting. I wanted to try to find a used electronics store but couldnt in my brief time there. I need a cheap Japanese-English electronic dictionary. There is another side to Akihabara, something very important to Japanese culture
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