Akihabara
Channel: all the knowledge of the universe PRINCIPIA
Date: 2021-12-05

Akihabara, by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2802 / CC BY SA 3.0

#Akihabara
#Chiyoda,_Tokyo
#Electronics_districts
#Neighborhoods_of_Tokyo
#Otaku
#Shopping_districts_and_streets_in_Japan
#Taitō
#Tourist_attractions_in_Tokyo
Akihabara （Japanese: 秋葉原） is a common name for the area around Akihabara Station in the Chiyoda ward of Tokyo, Japan.
Administratively, the area called Akihabara mainly belongs to the Sotokanda （外神田） and Kanda-Sakumachō districts in Chiyoda.
There exists an administrative district called Akihabara in the Taitō ward further north of Akihabara Station, but it is not the place people generally refer to as Akihabara.
The name Akihabara is a shortening of Akibagahara （秋葉ヶ原）, which ultimately comes from Akiba （秋葉）, named after a fire-controlling deity of a firefighting shrine built after the area was destroyed by a fire in 1869.
Akihabara gained the nickname Akihabara Electric Town （秋葉原電気街, Akihabara Denki Gai） shortly after World War II for being a major shopping center for household electronic goods and the post-war black market.
Akihabara is considered by many to be the centre of modern Japanese popular culture and a major shopping district for video games, anime, manga, electronics and computer-related goods.
Icons from popular anime and manga are displayed prominently on the shops in the area, and numerous maid cafés and some arcades are found throughout the district.
The main area of Akihabara is located on a street just west of Akihabara Station, where most of the major shops are situated.
Most of the electronics shops are just west of the station, and the anime and manga shops and the cosplay cafés are north of them.
As mentioned above, the area called Akihabara now ranges over some districts in Chiyoda ward: Sotokanda （外神田, the west of the station including electric town）,
Kanda-Hanaokachō （神田花岡町, the east of the station）, and Kanda-Sakumachō （神田佐久間町, the south and southeast of the station）.
There exists an administrative distr...