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Chiyoda

Akihabara

Akihabara, or Akiba in slang, is 's "Electric Town" on the eastern side of the central ward. The area houses thousands of shops selling every technological gadget you can imagine, from computers to gaming consoles and vacuums to DVDs, at reasonable prices.
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  • Type: Neighborhood with 77,200 residents
  • Description: town located in Chiyoda, Tokyo
  • Also known as: “Akiba”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Akihabara and Okachimachi Station.

Railway station
Photo: ヒタチギ, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Station is an interchange railway station in , , . It is at the center of the shopping district specializing in electronic goods.

Railway station
Photo: Nesnad, CC BY 4.0.
is a railway station in Taito, Tokyo, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company.

Shopping center
Photo: Yuukokusya, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The , Akihabara Radio Hall is a commercial building in , Japan and is one of the most well-known landmarks in the Akihabara district.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Taito and Ueno.

Photo: Yoshikazu TAKADA, CC BY 2.0.
Taitō is a northeastern ward of . Talk to a Tokyoite about "downtown", and he will think of the district: the train station of , where migrants from the first arrived in their search for a better life, and the temples of , once a boom town full of prostitutes and gangsters, but long past its prime now.

Photo: z tanuki, CC BY 3.0.
If you want to get a feel for old , in the district is a good place to start. Entirely lacking in high-rise condos or whiz-bang shopping malls, by Tokyo standards it's distinctly downmarket, in contrast to places like , but that means that eating, shopping and drinking are all affordably priced.

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Bunkyō is in , north of the Imperial Palace. The name means roughly "Capital of Culture" and, indeed, it's best known as the home of the sprawling University of Tokyo and a series of aristocratic parks and villas.

Akihabara

Latitude
35.70189° or 35° 42′ 7″ north
Longitude
139.77437° or 139° 46′ 28″ east
Population
77,200
Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)
Open location code
8Q7XPQ2F+QP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4881037222
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­neighbourhood
Geo­Names ID
11790367
Wiki­data ID
Q418096
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Akihabara” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أكيهابارا”
  • Arabic: “اكيهابارا”
  • Azerbaijani: “Akihabara”
  • Basque: “Akihabara”
  • Bulgarian: “Акихабара”
  • Catalan: “Akihabara”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئاکیھابارا”
  • Chinese: “AKB”
  • Chinese: “秋叶原”
  • Chinese: “秋葉原”
  • Chinese: “秋葉原電氣街”
  • Czech: “Akihabara”
  • Dutch: “Akihabara”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اكيهابارا”
  • Esperanto: “Akihabara”
  • Estonian: “Akihabara”
  • Finnish: “Akihabara”
  • French: “Akihabara”
  • German: “Akibahara”
  • German: “Akihabara”
  • Gorontalo: “Akhihabara, to Tokyo, Japangi”
  • Hebrew: “אקיהברה”
  • Hindi: “अकिहाबारा”
  • Hungarian: “Akihabara”
  • Indonesian: “Akihabara”
  • Italian: “Akihabara”
  • Japanese: “あきば”
  • Japanese: “あきはばら”
  • Japanese: “アキハバラ”
  • Japanese: “あきばはら”
  • Japanese: “秋葉原”
  • Japanese: “秋葉原電気街”
  • Korean: “아키바”
  • Korean: “아키하바라”
  • Literary Chinese: “秋叶原”
  • Literary Chinese: “秋葉原”
  • Lithuanian: “Akihabara”
  • Macedonian: “Акихабара”
  • Malay: “Akihabara”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਕੀਹਾਬਾਰਾ”
  • Persian: “آکیهابارا”
  • Persian: “اکیهابارا”
  • Polish: “Akihabara”
  • Polish: “Elektryczne Miasto Akihabara”
  • Portuguese: “Akihabara”
  • Portuguese: “Tóquio/Akihabara”
  • Romanian: “Akihabara”
  • Russian: “Акибахара”
  • Russian: “Акихабара”
  • Spanish: “Akiba”
  • Spanish: “Akihabara”
  • Spanish: “秋葉原”
  • Swedish: “Akihabara”
  • Tagalog: “Akihabara”
  • Thai: “อากิฮาบาระ”
  • Turkish: “Akihabara”
  • Ukrainian: “Акіхабара”
  • Uzbek: “Akixabara”
  • Vietnamese: “Akihabara”
  • Wu Chinese: “秋叶原”
  • Wu Chinese: “秋葉原”
  • Yue Chinese: “秋葉原”
  • “秋葉原”

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