4 Hours in Akihabara

Today is another variation on the "A Week in Tokyo" where we take a look at what I got up to this time yesterday.
I just love Akihabara when the road is closed off to traffic. Yesterday was a public holiday when the main road becomes a Hokousha Tengoku (whats a Hokousha Tengoku?) A ton of cosplayers come out to play and some of them are really cute like this Shana.

This girl is cutie Rino-chan from the Pinkish Trick cosplay circle.

Girls from Office Miharu.

The maid to my right has a gorgeous smile.

Meeting up with members from the Blog Dinner (whats Blog Dinner?)

For some reason, Japans top bloggers (blogs that generate the most page views) are Mac users and gadget otaku. When we get together, the table soon transforms into a display of gadgets.
Two Macbook Airs, a few iPod Touches, a few mobiles and other wireless devices. And as you saw from the previous photo - one of the guys keeps his Macbook Air in a manila envelope ^^;

Then its back out to the main road which is Chuo Dori.
I thought I would do something a bit different this time and take photos of people taking photos of me ^^;
Here you can see the moment I step into Chuo Dori.

A crowd of people start to move in.

You may need to enlarge this pic to see that he has a rabbit (?) on his shoulder.

An interesting combination of neko mimi (cats ears), a bandanna and a light saber.

At this moment there is a circle of people gathered around.

Then they all take turns to have a pic with the armor.

A large percentage of the crowd are fellow gaijin.

The crowd of people starts to grow...

And grow...

Out of the many dannychoo.com readers that I've met so far, many are spending a few days at Akiba and seems like 40% of their time is spent here ^^;
How much time do you plan to spend in Akiba on your next trip to Japan?

And then I move on when I see the boys in blue looking over at the huge crowd of people.

MacBook Air pre-ordered for the CTO thats joining Mirai Inc next month. Will make an official announcement soon.

If you recognize the shops in Akiba you will notice through these pics that theres is a constant crowd that follows me towards the station^^;

Love this guy - a Phantom of the Opera Panda.

Then I spend an hour in Asobit Hobby meeting with the store manager and taking pics of figures and Gundams - will post later this week.

Evening approaches Akiba.

The afternoon actually started like this. I seem to be making quite a few friends of late who just happen to be Idols - more of this later this week.