Akihabara, Japan, is famous for its streets filled with colorful animation ads and bustling shopping centers, hence its nickname Electric Town. The district near central Tokyo is a welcoming ...

Here is exciting news about Akihabara, one of the most famous sightseeing spots in Japan! The NPO Akihabara Tourism Promotion Association is currently running the Akihabara Hybrid Tour project for one ...

When I was in grade school in the early 90s, Japan had an inherent air of mystery as the place where most of my video games and electronics came from. Schoolyard rumors abounded of how the Japanese ...

This Tuesday, Japan executed Tomohiro Kato, also known as the “Akihabara killer”, 14 years after he rammed into the Akihabara Electric Town shopping hub with a truck killing three in the act. He then ...

So what is Akihabara? On a map, it's a neighborhood on the east side of Tokyo, a couple of stops north of the main Tokyo Station. The signs at the Japan Rail train station call it the "Electric Town," ...

Whether it’s robots or smartphones, AI or premium audio products, Japan has always been at the forefront of any conversation about technology. We recently spent several weeks in Tokyo discovering not ...

TOKYO -- The days before the launch of the Family Computer in 1983 must have been seriously confusing for the first wave of Japanese gamers. Besides all of the domestic game machines that were being ...

It was threatening to rain this morning, but Akihabara, Japan's electronics district and gamers' Mecca, was buzzing with activity. It's a holiday weekend, so the streets were packed. Coming out of the ...

This is the third installment of my Japan travelogue. Read my first impressions here and my visit to Odaiba here. I am the last person who should be writing a travelogue. I have no idea what I am ...