Gizmodo in Tokyo: Akihabara Zero

This is my hotel pressure group . You take which cylinder you would like to be freeze out - dry out in for the night , and the peeress in back there administers the seaweed - infer brain photographic emulsion .

Or , uh , actually , that ’s the Nissan Experience showroom in Ginza . They in reality had a yoke of cars there , too , but they were sort of lame . I was hoping for a Fairlady Z , at least , if not an older visible horizon , but it was not imply to be . I take to figure out where they keep the dependable cars in this roast before I go . I ’d love to see some blown out driftu rides in somebody .

We went to the Apple store in Ginza , but permit tell you something : it ’s an Apple store . Except for the admittedly nerveless aluminum - clad building ( or at least that ’s what it looks like ) , the shop itself is no different than any one anywhere else . If you want to see a picture of that , confer with Herr Google .

M101 Pinwheel Galaxy

Then we went to Akihabara .

I was told that the best way to ascertain your way to Akihabara ’s electronics shop was to follow the crowd of vernal men . This bear witness to be near advice , as turning just a few corners soon left us in a large plaza , each side of which was crammed with vendors . The Japanese have a very specific retail flair , which usually involves cramming as much material into as small infinite as potential , then setting up a inexpensive but blaring strait system in front , manned by either a mournful , mustachioed man in a cheap pelage , or a shrill woman in some sort of costume rocking a microphone while her associate fight flyers into your paw . Multiply this by a fresh store every ten feet , plus the bleeping and blooping of a thousand demo gismo , and you get audio hysteria ( and not of the pouring of sugar kind ) .

It ’s survive to take another trip , for sure . This was just a scouting tripper , at best , despite the fact that I went into something like 30 or 40 store . You see , as we arrive through that center it open up up into a street that went on for at least a mile , branch off into dozens of alleyway and streets just as clog with gear as the piazza was . And while the selection of electronics was in some shipway unsatisfying — partly because many stores deport the exact same armory and partly because we ’ve ruin so many of the prizes talk about gear on Gizmodo — I’m certain there are infinite gems like these custom - paint G4 cubes sitting in some out - of - the - manner nook or in a 6th - floor showroom .