To move from place to place we use the Tokyo subway for which we bought a day pass. It is as expected very convenient however the subway stations are usually very far down so we have to take multiple stairs down and then follow the color coded routes to the correct station. After a few false starts we get used to it and especially when it is raining it is great to have a place to escape the rain. In fact many times you dont’ have to exit to the surface as the subway exit will lead you to underground entrances to malls/businesses.
After finishing with the museum we plan to spend the reminder of the day in Akihabara, the electric city. This part of the town is supposed to be all about electronic shops and department stores as well as anime related stores. To us it doesn’t seem that different from a normal shopping street we have seen in Japan, it has a few electronic stores but nothing that is really that shockingly different and it is in no way cheaper.
We visit the Anime Center which is relatively small and enter a few anime stores, most of the are books or magazines in Japanese so we don’t know what they are about. Even so we do a little shopping with a few items that we wanted to buy for some time and time is already running out as we have only one full more day in Japan.
