Tokyo · Entertainment

Best Arcade & Games in Tokyo

5 places, each checked by our team.

• Game Center Mikado (Takadanobaba) ゲーセンミカド 高田馬場Takadanobaba — A legendary retro arcade by the Takadanobaba tracks, stuffed with 1980s–90s cabinets, shmup and fighting game communities, and wild live-streamed…
• GiGO Akihabara Building 3 GiGO秋葉原3号館Akihabara — One of the surviving former-SEGA arcades in Akihabara, with crane games, rhythm games, purikura, collaboration cafés and the RETRO:G retro-game…
• Taito HEY Hirose Entertainment Yard (HEY)Akihabara — Akihabara's shoot-'em-up shrine: floors of vintage arcade cabinets, Cave, Toaplan, Psikyo shmups, retro fighters and beat-'em-ups, where locals play…
• Taito Station Akihabara タイトーステーション 秋葉原店Akihabara — A tall, all-floors Taito arcade on Chuo-dori: crane games stuffed with anime prizes, rhythm games, fighting-game cabinets and purikura photo booths.…
• Taito Station Shinjuku Kabukicho タイトーステーション 新宿歌舞伎町店Shinjuku / Kabukicho — Taito's big new prize arcade at the Kabukicho entrance on Yasukuni-dori, opened March 2026: four-plus floors and 383 crane-game booths, open until…