30.04.2009 · Blog
Gunnar takes on @home Cafe and @gumi head on!
Gunnar our fellow otaku in denial visits @home Cafe and lives through an Otagei pit to tell about it. Great to see Hiyochan in the spot...

22.03.2009 · Blog
World's Akiba Festival falls flat
Maybe it just wasn't meant to be. The Akiba-kai organizers have the best of intensions, but they told me that no foreign media outlets...
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15.03.2009 · Blog
Otaku2 featured by British journalists
Check out the story here. Thanks to Danny Choo for the introduction, and hope his hay fever is better!
22.02.2009 · Blog
No Street Lives in Akihabara
Beginning to feel like spring now, and the streets of Akihabara are beginning to liven up. Cosplayers are coming back, as are tourists. ...
25.01.2009 · Blog
Roland Kelts joins Otaku2 Tour!
Roland Kelts, author of "Japanimerica," joined the Otaku2 Akihabara Tour this week. He was a visiting professor at Sophia University in...
16.01.2009 · Blog
New developments for Akihabara?
In a meeting of local leaders held January 15 in Akihabara, Kobayashi Takaya, a Chiyoda Ward councilman, made several proposals that will...
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21.12.2008 · Blog
ABCs of Akihabara? For me, N-O
Doing the rounds in Akihabara today and saw this advertisment. I wonder what sort of service it is, and why I've never heard of or seen it...
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10.12.2008 · Blog
NEW GOGO Curry Electric Town Akiba location
Thursday December 4th was the eve of the opening of a new GOGO Curry on the Electric Town side of Akihabara. Oh what a treat to no longer...

02.12.2008 · Blog
Mazinger Z ... Zanta is coming to town!
Liberty on Chuo Dori has Mazinger Z out side the shop spreading yuletide cheer to all the good boys and girls around Akihabara! The Otaku...
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23.11.2008 · Features
Akihabara Food Guide (1)
The Japanese phrase shokoyoku no aki, the fall appetite, brings to mind the bounties of the harvest such as chestnuts, mushrooms, potatoes,...
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23.11.2008 · Blog
Akihabara's Future: Morikawa Kaichiro
The man who wrote the book on Akiba takes questions

13.11.2008 · Blog
Christmas spirit comes to Akiba early!
It's beginning to look allot like a Bousouzoku Christmas in Akihabara! Here we have a group for friends that came to Akihabara to do...
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31.10.2008 · Features
Akihabara Enta Matsuri 2008
The streets go to the fans for a week!
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19.10.2008 · Features
JAM 2008
The development of Akihabara, an anime hotel and cosplay dancing!
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