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Best Anime & Otaku in Tokyo

9 places, each checked by our team.

• Akihabara Electric Town 秋葉原電気街Akihabara — Tokyo's neon temple of anime, games and electronics: multi-storey hobby stores, retro-game shops, maid cafés and crane-game arcades along Chuo-dori.…
• Akihabara Radio Kaikan 秋葉原ラジオ会館Akihabara — Akihabara's yellow-signed landmark beside the station: floor after floor of figure, hobby, trading card and anime-goods shops stacked in one building.
• Animate Ikebukuro Main Store アニメイト池袋本店Ikebukuro — The world's largest anime store, Animate's rebuilt flagship near Otome Road, with ten-plus floors of manga, character goods, a theater, café and…
• Mandarake Complex まんだらけコンプレックスAkihabara — Akihabara's eight-floor black tower of second-hand otaku treasure: vintage manga, rare figures, cels, retro games and cosplay, a collector's paradise.
• Nakano Broadway 中野ブロードウェイNakano — A faded 1966 shopping arcade whose upper floors have become a labyrinth of collector shops, Mandarake's empire of vintage manga, toys and cels, plus…
• Oizumi Anime Gate 大泉アニメゲートOizumi-gakuen / Nerima — A free open-air anime gallery on the deck outside Oizumi-gakuen Station, in the neighbourhood that calls itself the birthplace of Japanese anime.…
• Super Potato Akihabara スーパーポテト 秋葉原店Akihabara — Three floors of retro video games, Famicom, Super Famicom, Game Boy, PC Engine, Sega Saturn, plus a tiny top-floor arcade of 1980s and '90s…
• THE GUNDAM BASE TOKYO ガンダムベース東京Odaiba — Bandai's official Gunpla flagship on DiverCity Tokyo Plaza 7F in Odaiba, thousands of model kits, build spaces and displays. Note: the life-size…
• Tokyo Anime Center 東京アニメセンターShibuya — An anime exhibition space and official goods shop in Shibuya run by the Association of Japanese Animations, with rotating shows on current series.