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The journey began with a long flight towards Tokyo, with a pit stop at London. Because we flew ‘ahead of time’ we had plain day the whole flight. After we landed at the airport we took the train to our first hotel: Hotel Grids. Which is near Akihabara. We experienced a lot of things people had already told us at home. Things like how clean the roads are, or how polite they are. Also one of the amazing things was the many vending machines, which can be found at pretty much every street corner.
It sure was crowded in the center of Akihabara. A lot of really high building, mostly containing anime and manga promotion material. But even so it was amazing to experience. After visiting a lot shops, expositions and shows we found out that there are stores on many of the higher levels in the buildings. Shops like Akiba hobby and the Touhou fan-store. A lot of these stored were set up really tight, which means that it was really easy to miss things. On Sunday the main road there is closed for cars for a few hours, during that time people can walk freely across the whole road to take photos or just for fun. At the edge of the road we went to eat at a Korean barbecue, which was really good although it wasn’t cheap. A fun there there was that when you ordered your next item on the digital menu, you got a minigame which could win you some free food. Odd but fun.
De Racing Miku Akihabara Exhibition:

The journey continues to one of the well known attractions in Japan, The unicorn gundam statue. Every once in a while the giant robot moves with sound effects, a real sight to see. (WHat interval we don’t know, but we got lucky when we got there). Next up was the shopping center next to the gundam which had a ROund 1 and a rooftop skatepark, which had a great view because of the height of the building. Next we went to Joypolis, a SEGA branded attraction centre, we expected it to just be gift shops but indeed it was a giant building with lots a attractions to take part in. They had a system with tickets, you buy one at entree, and then you top it up to pay for the fares. There was also the option to get a free for all ticket, which was pricey but meant that you could do all the rides without extra fees. The centre was actually not crowded at all, no problem at all because we had no lines to get in the rides. The one we found the most awesome was the Initial D real car racing machine. We play the game at home but now we had the opportunity to play it sitting in a real car form the game itself.

Author Benjamin Vitters
English translation door Anton Grootes
Japanese translation door Niek Nooijens
Grammar Monica Grootes

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