I spent my friend Juanantz a 20-minute article on this district of Tokyo, caught in a brutal inattention or excessive ignorance. The author of the letter titled as follows: "Aki b a h o, the technological district of Tokyo." A lack of this kind can escape anyone, but reading the article generalist poor you wonder that poor fellow have endiñado write about something that has all the earmarks of not having been visited. I praise the interest in discovering the many readers but limited 20 minutes something that goes far beyond what they imagined. So I felt the need to show you as best they can what for me is Akihabara. It is true that technology is the neighborhood of Tokyo, as other Japanese cities like Osaka also have one, but Akihabara beyond that. Is the bow sociotecnológica, bow technological culture worldwide, makes available to any user insignificant the largest and most advanced range of electronics on the planet and what not ... just not there. All well seasoned with huge doses otaku freak winds rake and Sunday. So far I have said more than the damn article, no longer serves the excuse of the page limitation, Internet solved it.

See what I said in the preceding lines. I speak of the greater range in quantity, quality and variety. Observe the area occupied, explored by me and bounded by the authorities on Sunday.

As you can see the area covered is huge, about 300,000 m2 full of shops, stalls tienduchas, and large shopping centers. They range in light of the infinite signs and illuminated signs for alleys and tunnels where humble stalls scattered chips and components to interconnect different buildings finally to meet the terrifying vision of a 8-storey Carrefour, the Yodobashi Camera. This monster is inside from bionic horse saddles, through thousands of different mice to gozillas rubber.

The variety is enormous, we can find anywhere in Akihabara with USB fans, chips, mini cameras, high-end goals, second hand laptops, mobile perfect imitations alongside the most modern in the world. Any cachibache any time together, yes, the traditional overemployment Nippon girls exercised by vendors and subject to the otaku fantasies demanded by potential buyers. Yes, the second factor that characterizes Akihabara is the freak, to attract the attention of the visitor upon arrival, on the same street in broad daylight (although that does not matter), shows a feature of Japanese society, the delivery total supply to demand what is ultimately wasteful capitalism. See these girls that we simply split advertising is sufficient sample of the perversion of their society.

Teen with maids dresses or school uniforms with cat ears. In this guise Cosplay Japanese girls dress in an apparent submission, but vain attempt to avoid the pictures taken. The answer to the demand has made ​​this neighborhood a villa geeks defended tooth and nail (as well reflected Kirai), which happen manga and anime shops, cafes with meidokisas, which are sometimes (and not I hear Edu) dens of "massage". Yet there are far worse places where the ratio of otaku and sexual perversion comes to creating the most depraved products, such aberrations that are sick and flee to españolitos like us. It's unspeakable.

All this is possible thanks to a phenomenon of popular Sunday rake deeply rooted in time immemorial in the islands. In the crowds of people joined by the cooperation of the authorities in Tokyo that cut the avenue on Sunday allowing the Nipponese take over the place and move freely to consume with care.

As if all this were not enough, the material is taken to the streets as if they were the means of the Gypsies or peanuts in bulk, and although not usually haggle the prices are significantly lower, especially for foreigners because of the many duty free ( I still remember that hard drive 1 TB by 102 €).

Topping the employees have always stamped their product offering loudly, very picturesque but traditional, even in the Yodobashi. The shouting and the noise we are bombarded from all places, making our prodigious brain isolated in a miraculous way only the sounds that interest us.

Although of course brings together many aspects of Japanese culture, this is a very special characteristics and magnitudes are unmatched among other things by being in the national capital. The technological edge is accompanied by a cultural layer is more than a shopping or entertainment, is the promised land of a way to view life based on the culture of technology for leisure, where you can find the imaginable and the unimaginable.