While there is an official locality named Akibahara, which is also 秋葉原 in kanji, nearby ( as part of Taitō-ku ), the area known to most people as Akihabara ( including the railway station of the same name ) also include Soto-Kanda, a part of Chiyoda-ku.

The area north of the bridge is Akihabara Electric Town.

The station is located slightly east of the Mansei bridge (), on the Akihabara side of the Kanda River.

Due to the rarity of such 8M Memory Packs, however, the game is one of the most expensive on the Japanese secondary market-listed as 13th most expensive game in Akihabara by Wired Magazine.

Kiyone and Mihoshi are left dealing with her while Tenchi and Sasami go to Akihabara to look for software, a search that is complicated by Bif Standard's takeover.

The area on the Eastern side of the Akihabara station is the location of several districts that cover at most a few buildings.

It is at the center of the famous Akihabara shopping district specializing in electronic goods.

The above-ground section of the station is cross-shaped, with the Chūō-Sōbu Line tracks running from east to west, and the Yamanote and Keihin-Tōhoku Line ( and Tōhoku Shinkansen, which does not stop at Akihabara ) from north to south.

The main attraction is the Akihabara electronics retail district to the north and west of the station.

( it's worth noting that a maid-cafe named " Pia Carrot " also opened in real life ; it is a cosplay restaurant in Akihabara, Japan ).

Ochanomizu is the second stop after Tokyo Station on the Chūō Line and one stop before Akihabara Station when travelling from Shinjuku.

In fact, Akihabara Junior High School is a gigantic altar that is designed to receive the Primum Mobile when it descends.

The main character ( who appears to be nameless ) is the son of a famous inventor, Dr. Akihabara, who decides to move to Rococo.

She is especially well known for her songs from Revolutionary Girl Utena, Tales of Eternia The Animation, Slayers, Sorcerer Hunters, Di Gi Charat, Magic User's Club, Jungle de Ikou, Akihabara Dennou Gumi, Ray the Animation, He Is My Master and Yu-Gi-Oh!

All other citizens of Akihabara, including the manager, are drawn as anthropomorphic thumbs, the reason being that Akihabara is one of the largest shopping areas of Earth for video games, among other things, and thumbs are most commonly used by people to press buttons while playing video games.

( stylized MOSAIC. WAV ) is a Japanese moe-pop band from Akihabara, widely known for doing theme songs to eroge, they eventually began to produce their own original work in 2004.

Crimes are seldom committed with firearms, yet knives remain a problem that the government is looking into, especially after the Akihabara massacre.

* 2008 – The Akihabara massacre takes place in the Akihabara shopping quarter in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.

It shows Dunst prancing around Akihabara, a crowded shopping district in Tokyo.

Common plot points include such otaku-centric activities as the buying and creation of dōjinshi, fan-made manga usually of erotic content ; convincing a character to try cosplay ( the dressing up as characters from manga, anime, or video games ); the creation of plamo ( plastic models that must be assembled ); visiting Akihabara, Tokyo's electronics shopping district ; or attending the biannual Comic Festival (" Comifes "), a reference to Comic Market (" Comiket "), Japan's single largest anime-and manga-focused fan convention.

Duty-free shops are also a mainstay in the Akihabara electronic shopping district of Tokyo.

* Akihabara, an area of Tokyo, often shortened to Akiba

At first there was no passenger service, for south of the station was the Akihabara cargo docks, where goods from all over the world would flow into Kanda by river and be hauled up the east bank of the canal to be ticketed at the central cargo transport window.

The loss of credibility with publishers hurt Fujimoto and Abiko for over a year, during which time they concentrated on solo projects, purchasing a television set in Akihabara and making independent films with an 8mm camera.

Through tracks 5 to 9 on two island platforms and one side of a terminal platform, lead only to storage tracks near Akihabara Station for empty trains, but will in future continue on the Tōhoku Jūkan Line to Tokyo Station and beyond on the Tōkaidō Main Line.

The upper level platforms were added in 1932 with the opening of an extension to the Sōbu Line from its old terminal at Ryōgoku to Ochanomizu, making Akihabara an important transfer station for passengers from the east of Tokyo and Chiba Prefecture.

) leads Batman to Akihabara, where he must comb the Electric City's various themed establishments to find a Yakuza leader that has a rather disturbing fetish for costumed heroes.

The main character soon sets off to find out that The Hackers want Dr. Akihabara for a sinister purpose, as Akihabara refuses an offer to join them.

The characters of Di Gi Charat and her sidekick Gema first appeared in July 1998 in From Gamers, a promotional magazine for the Akihabara store, Gamers.

Set in a Gamers store in Akihabara, the original series was sixteen episodes long, with each episode running for three minutes.

* 2000 wins 33rd USEN Award for Best New Artists for MOTER MAN ( Akihabara ~ Minami Urawa )

Toshio has also made the opportunity available to the public to come stay at his apartment and have the opportunity to discuss manga, anime and Japan in general with him, over a beer for a small fee, together with a tour of Akihabara and various otaku hot spots in Tokyo

In 2006 Yamada debuted as a solo artist with the single " Real You " which was used as the theme song for the movie Akihabara @ DEEP ( starring Yamada herself ) and peaked at number 10 on the Oricon Charts.

* 1990s: With the Yamada and Kojima household chain stores appearing throughout the suburban outskirts of Tokyo, the sale of consumer durables at Akihabara was greatly reduced, but the sale of computer goods increased in equal measure.

She was attempting to buy the most expensive PC in a computer store in Akihabara ( ¥ 3, 128, 000 ) when Hitoshi recommended a simpler model.

* It was also during the 1990s that the anime craze grew out of video games, and the youth group known as otaku began to pour into Akihabara.

Since 1998, Tokyo's Akihabara district contains a number of cosplay restaurants, catering to devoted anime and cosplay fans, where the waitresses at such cafés dress as video game or anime characters ; maid cafés are particularly popular.

They dubbed their own music as Akiba-Pop, J-pop covered by numerous Akihabara cultural references, this including fantasy anime and video game themes.

It was produced by Genco, animated by ARMS, and directed by Yoshitaka Fujimoto ( director of the anime Cyber Team in Akihabara and Nuku Nuku TV ).

The story features three otaku who live in the Akihabara district of Tokyo who receive technology from a scientist to fight an evil threat that at first only exists in their delusions, but eventually starts materializing itself in the real world.

In August 2005, the new Tsukuba Express train line connecting Akihabara, Tokyo to Tsukuba, Ibaraki was completed.

On August 24, 2005, the underground terminus of the new Tsukuba Express Line opened at Akihabara.

Light-hearted and relatively cheaply animated, the series follows the story of Di Gi Charat ( Dejiko ), her new sidekick Petit Charat ( Puchiko ) and Gema, who arrive in Akihabara, Tokyo.