Tokyo’s Nerdy Side

Tokyo is an amazing city. It is made for everybody. Every neighborhoods have its own personality, its own soul, where you can really see the different sides of the Japanese culture.

For example, Akihabara is a “nerdy” place, where you can find entire buildings dedicated to games. Some sell game cards that can go up to 700,000 yens. Others have seven floors of arcade games, where you can see people that meet up after work to dance on dance game machines or other crazy arcade games at which they are insanely good.

The “weird” aspect of this neighborhood is the enormous number of girls’ Cafe. Those places are served by very little dressed young women. To attract more people, many manga dressed girls stand on the street giving flyers away and trying to bring people in.

I think this neighborhood reflects an interesting part of the Japanese culture. The part where men, after work, go drink and de-stress. By 9:30, you can already see men stil wearing their work outfits drunk in the street.