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Akihabara
秋葉原 | |
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Urban area | |
 Akihabara in 2023 | |
| Nickname(s): Akihabara Electric Town, The Otaku Capital of the World, Anime City | |
  Akihabara Akihabara (Tokyo City)  Akihabara Akihabara (Japan) | |
| Coordinates: 35°41′54″N 139°46′23″E / 35.69833°N 139.77306°E | |
| Country |  Japan |
| City |  Tokyo |
| Ward | Chiyoda |
Akihabara (Japanese: 秋葉原) is a neighborhood in the Chiyoda ward of Tokyo, Japan, generally considered to be the area surrounding Akihabara Station (nicknamed Akihabara Electric Town). This area is part of the Sotokanda (外神田) and Kanda-Sakumachō districts of Chiyoda. There is an administrative district called Akihabara (part of Taitō ward), located north of Akihabara Electric Town surrounding Akihabara Neribei Park.
The name Akihabara is a shortening of Akibagahara (秋葉ヶ原), which comes from Akiba (秋葉), named after a fire-controlling deity of a firefighting shrine built after the area was destroyed by a fire in 1869.[1] Akihabara gained the nickname Akihabara Electric Town (秋葉原電気街, Akihabara Denki Gai) shortly after World War II for being a major shopping center for household electronic goods and the post-war black market.[2][3]
Akihabara is considered by many to be the centre of Japanese otaku culture, and is a major shopping district for video games, anime, manga, electronics and computer-related goods. Icons from popular anime and manga are displayed prominently on the shops in the area, and numerous maid cafés and some arcades are found throughout the district.
- ^ Cybriwsky, Roman. Historical dictionary of Tokyo.Scarecrow Press, 2011.
- ^ Nobuoka, Jakob. "User innovation and creative consumption in Japanese culture industries: The case of Akihabara, Tokyo." Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography 92.3 (2010): 205–218.
- ^ Yamada, Kazuhito. Entrepreneurship in Akihabara.