Identified as the ‘Electric Town of Tokyo’, Akihabara is an area that sells each and every technological gadget anyone could possibly conceive. This remarkable, Electric Town is positioned towards the east side of central Chiyoda ward. Akihabara has also become famous as a hub of the gaming, manga and animatronics culture. The town is well known globally as the origin of the Otaku culture.

From computers, mobile phones, games, televisions, cameras to watches, absolutely every electronic device is on sale here. Renowned also as the world’s biggest electronics town, Akihabara is home to both big and small stores specialising in various electronic products.  One of the main areas here is the Tokyo Animation Centre that mostly focuses on providing information and demonstrating events based on animation and gaming. The smaller electronic stores can be found in Chūō-dōri which is right off the main street. The larger stores generally fix sales tax exemptions and accept credit cards.

Dating back to 1945 is the electronic mega store Ishimaru Denki which is located in Akihabara. Specialising in games, CD’s and DVD’s Ishimaru Denki alone has 9 branches in the area of which four are large stores. Occupying the biggest shop floor area in the Electric Town is Yodobashi Camera Multimedia Akiba that houses about 650,000 items at any given time. Yamagiwa Livina Main Building is ideal for visitors in search of lighting fixtures and trendy furniture. The laboratory on the basement of the Yamagiwa Livina gives visitors the chance to experiment various lighting effects for their own house. The Laox megastore in Akihabara is also an impressive shopping centre for electronics in Tokyo.

A Tokyo hotel near Akihabara such as Shangri-La Hotel, Tokyo is a perfect choice for visitors in the city for shopping electronics.