The real Akihabara is great, so many random used electronics stores! I'll bet you can't go to the basement of one and play with random junked 2010s era flip phones in whatever games you've played!
The electronics market was kind of an alibaba cavern.
Well I guess it was bound to happen since now with Internet it's much easier to shop online for weird parts, but it's still sad.
An interesting thing to mention is that the otaku culture is also starting to wane, Akiba is slowly relinquishing the title of the Japanese pop culture capital.
What will the next trend for the town be? The jury's still out.
I do wonder where all the used electronics in my country go to. I'm sure it's collected and just exported or broken up for recycling.