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.