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Saying Goodbye to Tokyo's TINIEST Shop | Akihabara Tokyo Lens · Aug 14, 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA1UNJirOTI

I Rebuilt JAPAN'S TINIEST SHOP!! Tokyo Lens · Aug 20, 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsimPVu1aLU

No, it was a long line of stalls... the origin of the term "electric town" not any singular place.

I may be wrong, but I'm 99% certain that has to be Akihabara.

It started out like that and then lot of otaku shops opened and now akiba is known more for its otaku shops than the electric ones.