HARD OFF · Akihabara

Tight budget, bargains

The junk corner is the reason to come: boxes of untested hardware, cables, controllers and parts priced in hundreds of yen, where a console that works costs a fraction of the shelf price if you are willing to take the chance.

To know · "Junk" means untested, not broken. Tested and working items sit on the normal shelves at normal prices.

Trap · Nothing in the junk bins is guaranteed and none of it can be returned. Buy it as a gamble or not at all.