Otaku shops in Akihabara

Akihabara packs the most shops of any district on this map: figures, trading cards, retro games and doujinshi within ten minutes of the Electric Town exit. The traffic runs along Chuo-dori, but the finds are vertical. Radio Kaikan stacks ten floors of card counters, doll makers and figure dealers, AKIBA CULTURES ZONE another six, Mandarake Complex nine. Card shops cluster in Radio Kaikan and the side streets; retro hardware sits at Super Potato and in the junk corners. Most shops open around 11:00 or noon and close by 20:00, so an afternoon covers a building, not the district.