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I feel like it's a shadow of what it was 20 years ago. So many electronics stores replaced with creepy otaku stores.

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.

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When I went in 2018, I loved the 'creepy otaku stores', maybe because I am a bit of an otaku, hah. To each their own.

The electronics stores are still around, but they are indeed a shadow of what they once were.

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.

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