Akihabara, the nucleus of Japan's electronics world, has in recent years undergone a facelift to cater to a new geek subculture: otaku. The neighborhood has expanded its seeming endless supply of ...

The newly-built Akiba Culture Zone is a 7-floor building. It's the geek district's newest landmark, a mere four minute walk from the station. What wonders await inside?

See Akihabara for free with a new hybrid tour – or do it all online. Get a bike ride around the neighbourhood with VR visits to major sights, or go online for a full virtual tour.

The latest addition to our series of VR tours of Tokyo takes you to Akihabara. Long a commercial center for stereos, electronic equipment, and computer gear, in recent decades it has grown as a ...

The formerly Sega-owned GiGO Akihabara arcade building 4, located south of the Akihabara Station, will shut down in late September 2022. Nintendo PlayStation ...

He was 25 when he drove a truck into a lunch-time crowd of pedestrians at Akihabara shopping district, killing three people. He then stabbed passers-by with a dagger, killing four and wounding eight.

A new arcade in Tokyo’s Akihabara district boasts six floors of challenges, from Gundam fighting to claw machines and Taiko drums. No wonder Namco Akihabara opened shop in Japan’s anime, video ...

Japan has executed a 39-year-old man who killed seven people in Tokyo in 2008 during a stabbing rampage. Tomohiro Kato committed one of the most shocking mass murders in the country's recent history.